but do not provide soils with many nutrients. Clay-rich soils, on the other hand, increase water holding capacity and provide many plant essential nutrients. A common measure of soil fertility is ...

There’s no looking back for a dairy farming couple who eliminated imported feed and synthetic fertilisers, including nitrogen ...

Green roofs have become increasingly popular thanks to their benefits related to climate adaptation, mitigation, and urban ...

II. Understanding Houseplant Compost Houseplant compost is a soil enhancer made from decomposed organic matter that is ...

• Oliver Whyte’s garden, Coill an Chúir at Sandyhill, Westport, is included on the Clew Bay Garden Trail. A chain of ...

Around the world, unruly rivers have long driven a hard bargain. In exchange for rich soil, irrigated land and convenient transportation, they have forced floodplain dwellers to deal with an ...

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 ...

A tractor dragging a plough through rich soil and breaking it open is one of the most familiar images of farming. But is this most traditional of agricultural activities doing more harm than good?