Ferns should not be grown in deep shade. Give your plant at least six hours a day of filtered sunlight. This will toughen the ...

A good candidate for color in winter is the humble pansy/viola. A plethora of cultivars exist these days, allowing you to ...

Preparing the soil is key to growing strong gardens. Healthy soil helps plants grow well and fight off pests and diseases.

Terracotta pots are a stylish and classic choice for container gardening. The red clay, scorched earth tones flatter green ...

Less broken-down organic matter, you can still tell what it is, matters and will over time become humus. The “not stuff” ...

Hydrogels, which are soft materials made of water-filled, crosslinked polymer networks, have a wide range of uses, from wound ...

Lining your raised beds can help keep your garden healthy, but there are several different materials you can choose for the ...

When Martha Stewart has advice, we are all ears! When winter arrives and we want to make sure our warm weather potted plants ...

Hydraulic conductivity of soils affects many geo-environmental processes as well as design parameters, and is mostly dependent on fluid viscosity, grain-size distribution, and void ratio of the porous ...

Having a septic tank in your yard can be a huge eyesore. One way to make it less unattractive is to plant a luscious bulb ...

You may have tilled it too much. Healthy, loose soil is made of tiny clumps, called aggregates, that organic matter keeps together, acting as a binder. Tillage breaks this binder. The clumps fall ...

DuMux: an open-source simulator for flow and transport processes in porous media (repository mirrored from https://git.iws.uni-stuttgart.de/dumux-repositories/dumux.git) ...