This episode is from WHRO’s Spotlight Earth series. Watch this video to learn more about soil. This video dives into the importance of soil, explaining how this often overlooked substance is ...

Follow this expert's advice for ways to revive garden soil. Adding amendments like compost or wood ash in the spring will set you up for success.

Instructions: Use a soil texture triangle, available online, to determine your soil type based on the calculated percentages of sand, silt, and clay.

ABSTRACT Soil saturated hydraulic conductivity (Ksat) and steady-state infiltration rate (SSIR) are essential and necessary soil properties for different geoscience applications. Values of these ...

The soil samples were analyzed for physicochemical soil properties including soil texture and nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, and potassium concentrations. The interaction between land use type and ...

Earthworms are beneficial to soil by increasing its porosity (for water), excreting materials with beneficial microbes, and consuming dry matter and mixing it with the soil. The US Department of ...

Soil texture classification is pivotal in diverse fields, such as agriculture, environmental science, geology, civil engineering, and land management. Traditional approaches to soil texture ...

Have you ever watered your garden and noticed the water takes a long time to drain or percolate through the soil? You might want to investigate your soil texture.

The foundation of any good garden is its soil. Soil holds nutrients for plant uptake, holds water and air for metabolic processes, provides habitat for living organisms, and filters impurities.

Soil texture has agricultural applications such as determining crop suitability and predicting the response of the soil to environmental and management conditions such as drought or calcium (lime) ...