China accelerates desert restoration: 3.5 billion-year-old microbes stabilize sand and protect ecosystems in months.

It’s a simple equation: If you want to grow better plants, you first need to understand the soil. “The texture of a soil is its proportion of sand, silt and clay,” said James Cassidy, a soils ...

A study on an annual bluegrass putting green suggests that consistent sand applications reduce organic matter by dilution, forming a mat layer that impacts soil and plant health. The findings ...

Have you ever watered your garden and noticed the water takes a long time to drain or percolate through the soil? You might want to investigate your soil texture. Anthony Simerlink is a University of ...

Q: I really want to grow potatoes but I get poor yields and they always come out small and weirdly shaped. I was thinking this was because the soil in my yard is clay, but I tried adding a couple bags ...