Photo caption: This undated photo shows a shovelful of soil in New Paltz, N.Y. Good care, mostly by regularly adding plenty of organic materials and avoiding compaction, results in a soil with many ...

Homebuyers moving to California know to prepare for earthquakes, but many overlook a more everyday threat beneath their homes ...

Q: Awhile back a representative from the Southern Nevada Water Association said that he had heard that the typical soil type in the valley was a loam. The University of Arizona uses some landscape ...

Both extremes in soil have their advantages and shortcomings. These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by ...

By now, you probably know what kind of soil you have out there in your "back 40." If planting that rose bush brought up wads of gummy goo, you know to call it clay. If instead you scooped up gritty ...