"Like diamonds, clay soils are highly structured at the atomic level," Brewer said. "No amount of sand added to a clay soil will change its texture. The large sand particles provide a surface onto ...

The role of clay minerals in determining the behaviour of soil-applied fertilizers is well recognized. Often farmers complain that they don’t get response to adequate fertilizer doses especially ...

It wasn’t too many years ago that in October and November, we could smell the smoke from burning leaves almost every day. Gardeners who knew about the potential benefits of those leaves were ...