Good organic amendments for garden soils include wood byproducts such as sawdust and bark mulch, rotted manure, grass or ...

So, should you transplant when the soil is wet or dry? Whether you’re transplanting seedlings for your vegetable patch or you ...

Mold in your soil may be unsightly, but it's not always a cause for alarm. Some molds are beneficial, but it helps to know ...

The 2007 cropping season has been very dry for a large portion of the state and harvest started at a rapid pace. From mid-September to Oct. 22, the state has received an abundance of rainfall, ...

and rot related to wet soil. The saturated soils have made field work challenging, as harvest continues for corn silage, sugar beets, potatoes, alfalfa hay, and dry edible beans. Minnesota topsoil ...

Yet in winter, it can be constantly wet and waterlogging is common ... easy to dig over and spongy to the touch, peaty soil can be soaking in winter and dry during most of the summer.

Many larger farmers or those in strictly corn, soybean rotations are apprehensive about using cover crops to Flip their Soil, and that is especially true for farmers in drier climates. However, in ...

Recent applications of molecular genetics to edaphic microbial communities of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and elsewhere have rejected a long-held belief that Antarctic soils contain extremely limited ...