Fall is an excellent time to submit garden soil to a laboratory for nutrient testing. Provided by OSU Extension USA TODAY ...

If you haven’t tested your garden soil recently, fall is a good time to do it. With the last weeks of the growing season ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The question I receive most frequently from vegetable gardeners: How much fertilizer should I apply? The second most frequently ...

The most important task before winter arrives is harvesting, ensuring that nothing is wasted in what amounts to an entire season of work. Gathering and preparing all the produce for market or storage ...

Whether you’re preparing for your first garden, planning next year’s plantings after a successful harvest or looking to install a lawn, your first step should be conducting a soil test. “Soil is one ...

When farmers talk about their soil test results, the conversation often starts and ends with soil pH. While that one number is important to determining whether lime is needed, that insight is just a ...

In my 40 years of teaching and consulting, one of the biggest and most frustrating problems I continually encounter is when so called “landscape professionals” and homeowners continue to apply annual ...

Scientists have streamlined a method for measuring DNA-bound phosphorus in soil, making it cheaper and easier while ...

The Natural Resources Conservation Service launched its CEMA 216 (Conservation Evaluation Monitoring Activity) program to ...

, Sept. 28 -- Scientists have developed a simpler and more affordable method to measure a biologically active form of phosphorus in soil, potentially offering new insights into how soil microbes help ...

In the sandy potato fields of northeast Florida, a simple soil test has long promised to answer one question: does this field ...