Improve your soil by raking less
If you dread the annual fall leaf-raking marathon, I have good news for you: Raking and collecting leaves every autumn is a tradition without scientific basis. Research has proven that mowing leaves into your lawn can improve its vigor, and ... [... more]
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N Timing and Tools.(managing soil nitrogen): An article ...
Author: Charlene Finck Binding: Digital Format: HTML Number Of Pages: 5 Publication Date: 2005-05-08 Release Date: 2005-08-30 [... more]
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Managing Soil Quality
 Soil quality is a concept that allows soil functions to be related to specific purposes. ''Managing Soil Quality'' takes a management oriented approach by identifying key issues in soil quality and management options to enhance the sustainability of [... more]
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Microbiological Methods for Assessing Soil Quality
With growing concern about the protection of soil quality and biodiversity many countries have established regional and national programmes to monitor soil quality. This book reviews the theory and practice of a range of the various microbiological [... more]
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Hazards and Opportunities: Farming Livelihoods in ...
DIVClimatic variability, poor soils and increasing resource pressures are undermining people's ability to make a living in the drylands of Africa. Yet they continue to respond to these pressures by innovating and managing risks and uncertainties in [... more]
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The Four Things You Need to Know About Soil pH
Don't be too quick to blame horrendous-sounding afflictions like "verticillium" and "fusarium" or any other diseases for the sickly yellowing of your pin oak's or geranium's leaves. The problem may be that your soil's pH is out of [... more]
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Making Leaf Mold
As a graduate student, I once rented a house and was delighted to discover, tucked into the edge of some woods along the back of the yard, a gold mine: a large, old pile of leaf mold, or composted leaves, representing years and years of ... [... more]
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Soil Testing is Worth the Effort
Whether you're testing the soil at home or sending it to a laboratory, you'll have to decide what to test for. At the very least, test your soil's pH, which is a measure of how acidic your soil is. If the pH level isn't in the correct range, ... [... more]
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Good Soil is a Sieve and a Sponge
Plants do not look upon all soil water equally. Remember your high-school biology class when you watched water being drawn up a capillary tube against the pull of gravity? Water rose in that tube because the water molecules were attracted to each ... [... more]
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Choosing the Right Soilless Mix
The term potting soil has become something of a misnomer in today's world of container gardening. Most bags of potting soil contain no field soil but are composed of a variety of organic and inorganic materials and are referred to as soilless ... [... more]
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Getting to the Coir of the Matter
Enlightened gardeners may be noticing something new in their potting media: a dark brown, fibrous material that has the look and feel of peat. The material is coir (pronounced "core") dust. Like peat, it can be used as an organic component in .. [... more]
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Hartmann's Plant Science: Growth, Development, and ...
P style=MARGIN: 0pxB/BWritten by some of the most respected innovators in the field, this comprehensive text takes an in-depth look at the environmental, cultural and social factors that influence how plants are grown and used worldwide. The newest [... more]
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