Gardeners obsess over that stuff in the ground. Year after year, we throw potions and powders at it to break it apart and build it up. But most people don’t know dirt about soil. That’s a big ...

Under the mistaken impression that gardening was about plants, for years I paid little attention to the soil -- this despite a three-year stint working with corn farmers in Ohio. During my first ...

In his 1946 book “Weeds and What They Tell Us,” Ehrenfried Pfeiffer emphasizes that weeds are often an indication of changes in the soil rather than its original composition.

There would be no soil without microscopic fungi, mites, worms, and other minuscule life decomposing organic material this way. 7,000 X Grayston’s lifelong devotion to soil began in her backyard.