What Happens to Soil in Winter? Does Everything Die?
The soil under your feet is still teeming with life, even in the frozen temperatures of winter. All photos: SoilContinue Reading
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The soil under your feet is still teeming with life, even in the frozen temperatures of winter. All photos: SoilContinue Reading
Farmers keep crop residues on their fields for the same reasons home gardeners should consider! Source: Fabian Fernandez I’ve neverContinue Reading
Ideally, you wouldn’t add weeds that are in seed or even in the late part of their blooming cycle toContinue Reading
There are various reasons you, as a gardener, might have to deal with salty soil, that is, soil rich inContinue Reading
There are hundreds of thousands—if not millions—of organisms in just a handful of soil. The Soil Science Society ofContinue Reading
Forget the old technique for planting shrubs and trees, the one I learned when I was a kid. We were toldContinue Reading
Question: When should I apply compost so it will be most profitable for both the soil and my plants? DorisContinue Reading
A guest blog by Barbara-Ann G. Lewis of the Soil Science Society of America Rock starts becoming soil the momentContinue Reading
Ideally, good garden soil would be both moist and well drained. Any surplus moisture would then drain away rapidly, allowingContinue Reading
I often get very interesting messages from the readers of my blog. For example, after I wrote about the differenceContinue Reading