The middle of March is your cue to start growing cool season crops such as peas, sweet peas, lettuce, radish, cabbage, kale ...

Seed-growing season is upon us, and I'm here to diagnose the most common mistakes people make. From not enough water to too ...

The fix? If your indoor plants have hydrophobic soil, try to water from the bottom. Place a saucer of water beneath the pot and let the soil slowly wick up moisture through capillary action—a natural ...

Steve Tharp Jr. of the Stark-Tuscarawas-Wayne Recycling District guides you through creating a compost pile for lawn and ...

Assistant professor and entomologist at the university Michael Crossley, is a member of Owens’ corn earworm research team. He ...

Most other small plastic food containers, such as single-serving yogurt cups, clamshell-type salad packages or egg cartons, ...

If you’re planning to start seeds indoors this season, you likely know you’ll need a growing medium (packaged, sterile ...

Improve your soil by making biochar in the ground. DIY biochar enhances nutrient availability and also enables soil to retain nutrients longer. Last year, I committed one of the great sins of ...

The impact of these changes on soil health and soil microbial communities is not entirely understood. In rotational plots at two sites in Ohio, we investigated the impact of a corn-soy-wheat crop ...

Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, United States Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey ...