You can buy the most attractive plants in the greenhouse or order the best seeds, but they won't produce if your garden lacks nutrients. A soil test is the best way to check growing potential and ...

Knowing, understanding, and controlling your soil’s pH are all crucial to having a successful garden. The tool to help you with all three is a soil test kit. The best soil test kit provides you with a ...

Cultivation practices such as aeration and sand topdressing are necessary for turf health because they help maintain optimum organic matter (OM) levels. As a general rule, OM levels in the upper inch ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — If you suspect that your soil is to blame for your yard's poor performance, all you need is a bag of it and a couple of dollars to get a detailed analysis from the University of ...

From my interactions with farmers, one critical step I have noticed they always ignore is soil testing. Soil testing is the process of analysing the contents of your soil to find out the composition ...