Keep record of plant locations year-to-year to rotate crops and prevent soil depletion. Proper soil preparation and effective fertilization are crucial for a thriving vegetable garden. It's ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

Only in recent history has the understanding of soil productivity been tied to SOM levels, with the depletion of SOM stocks often leading to large-scale impacts on whole ecosystems as well as the ...