ANGELINA COUNTY, Texas (KTRE) - Perhaps nothing is more therapeutic than digging in wonderful, dark, rich soil. Your shovel cuts easily down through the soft, crumbly soil and it’s wonderful. Yet in a ...

Q: Awhile back a representative from the Southern Nevada Water Association said that he had heard that the typical soil type in the valley was a loam. The University of Arizona uses some landscape ...

Soils can contain large amounts of microbial biomass, including fungi, protists, viruses, bacteria and archaea. Most of these taxa currently remain undescribed, and have physiological and ecological ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the major components to see any type of outdoor garden flourish is the potting soil. And as any gardener knows, potting soil is not cheap. Especially when you have to use several bags for your ...

The trickiest part about growing a healthy lawn is knowing when it's time to water. Some might tell you to water your lawn every week, on a regular watering schedule, or even twice a day if you live ...

Vol. 424, No. 1/2, Part I: Special Issue: Advances in Root Ecology (March 2018), pp. 463-478 (16 pages) Aims In acidic soil, plant aluminum (Al) tolerance and nitrogen (N) fertilizer form play the ...

Organic matter decomposition and soil CO₂ efflux are both mediated by soil microorganisms, but the potential effects of temporal variations in microbial community composition are not considered in ...