Gardeners obsess over that stuff in the ground. Year after year, we throw potions and powders at it to break it apart and build it up. But most people don’t know dirt about soil. That’s a big ...

You can test the soil texture of your garden before you begin amending it. The easiest method is the “feel test.” To estimate the texture you will need to moisten a small quantity of dirt ...

It is very difficult to change the texture of your soil without adding tremendous amounts of clay, silt or sand. In small scale gardening it is possible, but for farmers it is not feasible. We can add ...

Good gardens start from the ground up, but to be a good soil steward you have to understand some basic terminology. A few important terms associated with soil: Soil texture describes nothing more ...

Why You Need More Dirt in Your Life. Soil helps build up our defenses against disease and imparts a sense of the sacred—and we are killing it.

There's more to soil than just dirt / What's in the ground isn't dead -- there's a complex system of checks and balances. By Deborah K. Rich, Special to The Chronicle Sep 11, 2004.

Loamy soil, ideal for gardens, is a mix of sand, clay and silt. NOAA The wriggling, munching parts of soil. Among all those rock particles is a whole world of living things, each busy doing its ...

A number of speakers at this morning’s media preview of the Smithsonian’s soils exhibit acknowledged how they initially didn’t know that soil and dirt were not synonymous. Of course, none ...

Dirt has an amazing ability to take in practically anything and end up better than when it started. You could bury the nastiest, angriest thing imaginable and, in no time at all, it's pushing up ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you'd like an expert to answer, send it to ... . When you think about dirt, you're probably picturing soil. There's so ...

The study, “Soil-powered computing: The engineer’s guide to practical soil microbial fuel cell design,” was supported by the National Science Foundation (award number CNS-2038853), the Agricultural ...