LAST WEEK'S column provided a recipe for testing your garden soil's texture and discussed the management of sandy soils. This week, I'll focus on the management of clay, silt and loam soils and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo caption: This undated photo shows a shovelful of soil in New Paltz, N.Y. Good care, mostly by regularly adding plenty of ...

Somewhere in this Land of Lincoln, on a ledge of fluorite far above the encrusted remains of Tullimonstrum gregarium, there sits a boy fishing for bluegills, while nearby a white-tailed deer browses ...

A year ago we showed you how poor management can destroy soil health and reduce yield (“A Tale of Two Soils,” October 2013). Farm A and Farm B are less than a mile apart and contain the same makeup of ...

Gardeners love loam soil because it's moist, soft and full of nutrients. Here's how to get more of it in your garden beds.

Both extremes in soil have their advantages and shortcomings. These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by ...

Both extremes in soil have their advantages and shortcomings. These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by ...

<p>By now, you probably know what kind of soil you have out there in your “back 40.” If planting that rose bush brought up wads of gummy goo, you know to call it clay. If instead you scooped up gritty ...