Bill Kerr says that increasing the organic and microbe content of your soil is the first step to ensuring healthier crops and ...

As autumn paints our gardens with vibrant hues, fallen leaves become a gardener's treasure trove for enriching soil and ...

Home vegetable or flower gardeners are often unhappy with their soil quality. They routinely incorporate organic matter in the soil each fall but don't see much change in their soil texture.

Loam is also rich in an organic matter called humus. Dark and loose but not too loose, humus is composed of decaying organic matter such as plant material and small organisms. The compost and ...

The present study was undertaken to understand the impact of different cropping systems on soil organic carbon (SOC) stock, aggregate distribution, and aggregate associated organic carbon (AAOC) in ...