Growing plants that are well-suited to your soil pH makes gardening a whole lot easier. While plants like potatoes flourish in acidic gardens, most veggies prefer slightly acidic to neutral soils, ...

Soil decides the fate of every garden long before the first tomato ripens or the first flower opens. Plants pull nutrients ...

To be a successful gardener, one needs to have a basic understanding of the soil which you are tending, as well the factors which affect the fertility, pH and quality of the soil. This is the case ...

Purdue Extension Educators frequently encourage homeowners to get soil tests when they want to grow new plants in an area, or try to diagnose what’s wrong with plants currently growing. One key ...

By digging deeper into the details, farmers can use the information to make more informed input decisions and drive better ...

On the surface, using nitrogen-based fertilizers within crop fields seems like an all-around good practice for producers who are noticing nutrient deficiencies in their soils. Yet, after years of ...

Acid sulfate soils are naturally occurring, sulphide‐rich soils that, when exposed to atmospheric oxygen, undergo oxidation processes which result in the formation of sulphuric acid. This ...

Acid sulfate soils (ASS) have long been recognised for their potential to generate sulphuric acid when pyrite and other sulphides are exposed to oxygen. These soils occur naturally in coastal and ...

Acid rain from fossil fuel pollution may be quietly training soil bacteria to become longer-lived, more transmissible, and more deadly, according to a new study in the journal New Contaminants that ...