Vegetable plants need different types of fertilizer several times throughout their growth cycle. We asked gardeners how often ...

It’s a first for the Central Iowa Water Works, which is worried about maintaining compliance with EPA nitrate standards.

An interdisciplinary research team involving the Research Institute of Farm Animal Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf and the ...

Comfrey plants, an alternative to daikons, can improve gardens with tough, compact soil by breaking up and aerating ...

Most of the fungal diseases that affect tomatoes are present in the soil, so the first defensive strategy should be to add a ...

The sap analysis delivers accurate data about nutrient uptake by plants — much like a blood test — compared against crop-specific target levels to help growers identify and correct imbalances that can ...

Plants and other photosynthetic organisms ... Thus, this circulation of carbon is known as the slow carbon cycle. Similar to carbon, nitrogen is a necessary component of biological molecules.

However, although our atmosphere contains plenty of nitrogen, neither humans nor the vast majority of plants can absorb it directly ... Ecologist Christina Biasi is exploring the conditions under ...