Nutrient availability for microbial growth is higher in the rhizosphere compared to the bulk soil; however, many microbes are competing for these nutrients, some more successfully than others.

It's not imperative, but this broadens the nutrient profile of your soil. If you can find bagged or bulk topsoil, add up to ...

To alleviate pests, plant mustards, and if your soil could use more humus, plant cowpeas. Your local nursery will have bulk cover crop seed and can help you figure out what would be best for your ...

Dried cells—it’s what’s for dinner. At least that’s what a new crop of biotech startups, armed with carbon-guzzling bacteria ...

A worm burrows its way through the dark earth, ingesting particles of soil and expelling nutrient-rich casts in a constant forage for food. Charles Darwin described earthworms as one of the most ...

THE bulk of the phosphate added to soils as fertilizer ... no direct evidence has ever been obtained of the actual presence in the soil of apatite formed from fertilizers.

By Hugo Francisco de Souza Just like diagnosing human illness, scientists are using soil health indicators to identify and ...

We can find soil in lots of different places because it's really important for almost all plants. Soil helps plants stay upright and it contains important substances to help them grow. In this ...

A team of Earth scientists at Lanzhou University, working with a group of organic chemists from Nanjing Agricultural ...

Top-dressing a lawn is a fancy term for amending the soil without disturbing the sod. Golfers might be familiar with the practice because this technique was first performed on golf courses in ...

A recently published paper led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst scientists found this can help with crops and ...

Flowers are also available through subscriptions and in bulk. They offer workshops where community members receive hands-on planting instructions and get to take home bouquets of fresh-cut flowers. As ...