David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a historian, ...

Most every farmer and gardener has heard the value of soil testing and adjusting the pH of the soil to meet your crop needs.

To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

When I started gardening, I assumed you could put seeds in dirt, add water and watch them grow into plants. That uneducated approach produced haphazard results and few vegetables. Somehow, I missed ...

The most common mistake by home gardeners is not having their soil tested before applying fertilizer or lime. Those who fail ...

Soil quality is a major component of growing healthy food plots, as well as other things, such as gardens and yards. There are many different soil test kits available for everyone from the one-plot ...

To be a successful gardener, one needs to have a basic understanding of the soil which you are tending, as well the factors which affect the fertility, pH and quality of the soil. This is the case ...

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In the early stages, Uganda's soils were considered fertile and little was done to improve productivity in a systematic way. However it was soon realised that crop yields in Uganda declined under ...