A better brick designed in Scotland is being used to build new homes in Bangladesh. The brick mix is a concept developed by experts at the University of Dundee that showcases amazing features ...

Root development is one of the cornerstones of all high-performing football and winter sports pitches, regardless of the ...

A research team sheds light on the longstanding debate regarding sand topdressing and its role in managing organic matter in ...

The mineral component of soil is made up of clay, silt, and sand particles. The relative amounts of these materials are what we use to describe the texture of a soil or soil type. The best way to ...

When using organic amendments, make sure that they have not been treated with herbicides, as it can carry over into the soil. Inorganic amendments include pumice, perlite, vermiculite and sand.

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

What is 'no-till' gardening? Is it better for my garden than traditional digging and tilling every year or not? What are the advantages of this method and how can I start using it? This method of ...

Unhealthy soil induces poor plant performance and growth. Marin County gardeners must frequently amend their soil with mulch ...

We can more efficiently use existing water resources and better control salinization to improve arid lands, find new ways to rotate crops to protect the fragile soil, and plant sand-fixing bushes ...

When Jim McClelland and his brother-in-law Reg Tremble talk about the mid-1950s you can almost hear the chips of ...

temperature and sand in the soil. “We are interested in assessing or describing how these variables correlate with different levels of soil organic carbon,” Oros said. Huang said the project was ...