A person holds two overflowing handfuls of rich brown soil. - William Edge/Shutterstock We can all imagine what healthy soil looks like: Rich, crumbly, and dark brown, bursting with nutrients and ...

A garden with red flowers and orange marigolds - Basieb/Getty Images Self-seeding flowers are the gift that keeps on giving for gardeners, especially when you can't decide between perennial plants ...

Home soil testing kits easily read the pH and nutrient levels of the sample, but they can differ greatly from more precise ...

Areas where landslides are common make hydric soil identification tricky. When it comes to soils, proper identification is key. Identification allows scientists to determine the story behind the soil: ...

Fall foliage is a complicated thing. There’s not one plant gene that controls the entire process. Here's what to know about weather's impact on color.

Ordinarily, if you want to know how soil properties change at different depths, you have to extract soil core samples. Scientists have now determined that the same data can be obtained much more ...

When gardeners ask how they can change the color of their hydrangea flowers from pink to blue, I sometimes jokingly suggest they move to the east coast where the soils are acidic. Nebraska soils tend ...