In order to improve soil heath and organic matter, vegetable gardeners should aim to have actively growing plants in the garden for 10 or eleven months each year. This is desirable because organisms ...

Does grass grow in the winter? As the cold sets in, winter seeding puts green in the bank to be enjoyed when spring rolls ...

The future landscape of the American Midwest could look a lot like the past—covered in native grasslands rather than agricultural crops. This is not a return to the past, however, but a future that ...

Keathley Landscaping, a Dallas-based landscape contractor serving the region since 2002, has expanded its specialized ...

Now is a good time to start prepping your landscape and vegetable gardens for plants. The best place to start is by finding out your soil composition. If you understand the nutritional composition and ...

Researchers from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have conducted an ecosystem-wide ...

The Market Corner column is now taking questions from readers. Here is our first ... Q: I have a white pine tree in my yard that is about 20 feet tall. It seems to be really brown in spring and at ...

The chemical composition of soil organic matter (SOM) is a key determinant of its biological stability. Our objective in this study was to evaluate the effects of various sources of supplemental N on ...

Wildfires may be releasing more planet-warming carbon dioxide and toxic chemicals than previously anticipated — by changing the composition of the soil systems that they burn, a new study has found.

Clay soil can present several challenges to gardeners due to its density. One way to amend compacted clay soil is with a ...