Your kitchen scraps can help nourish the soil in your garden. Learn 3 methods of composting and how to use kitchen scraps to ...

Spring gardens explode with energy when soil conditions hit the sweet spot. Early growth depends less on luck and more on ...

If you fired up the rototiller this spring, you may have just dealt your garden a serious blow. For generations, turning the ...

More than half of Europe's soils are degraded. Researchers are showing that restoring soil through better farming makes both ...

When it comes to improving clay soil, sand is not the answer. “What do contractors make when they mix clay and sand? Concrete,” said Sacramento soil expert Steven Zien of Living Resources Co. “Adding ...

Warm soil changes everything in the garden. Seeds sprout quicker, roots stretch with confidence, and young plants settle in without hesitation. Cold, damp ground often slows growth and invites rot, ...

Use a soil thermometer to determine soil temperature before planting seeds. Cold soil will inhibit germination and cause ...

The Minnesota Department of Agriculture awarded $4.7 million in grants this year. The funds are intended to share the cost of ...

Over the course of evolution, plants have developed an elegant strategy to counteract a lack of phosphate in the soil—they ...

Ben Parrott is an agronomist and certified crop adviser at Top Soil in Carroll. Parrott, a Carroll native, has a background ...