A person holds two overflowing handfuls of rich brown soil. - William Edge/Shutterstock We can all imagine what healthy soil looks like: Rich, crumbly, and dark brown, bursting with nutrients and ...

Soil color can be used as a simple, inexpensive method to predict measurements of soil organic content to assess soil quality and better understand global carbon cycles. According to Iowa State ...

What is the first color that comes to mind when you envision soil? Is it brown, black, yellow, or red? How about white, gray, green, or blue? Experts now explain that all of these answers are correct ...

A garden with red flowers and orange marigolds - Basieb/Getty Images Self-seeding flowers are the gift that keeps on giving for gardeners, especially when you can't decide between perennial plants ...

When it comes to soils, proper identification is key. Identification allows scientists to determine the story behind the soil: how it formed, how it behaves in different scenarios, and how valuable it ...

image: A team of scientists from RUDN University and the Dokuchyaev Soil Science Institute developed a method for identifying the color of soil at different depths and the structure of soil profile ...

According to the results of a recent study, soil color changes in the atmosphere basically through the oxidation of chemical substances in the soil. The fundamental mechanism is the remodeling effect ...

Color ranks high in our decision to acquire a plant for the garden. We are told repeatedly that structure is the most important element, because flower color, even the color or pattern on foliage, is ...

Ordinarily, if you want to know how soil properties change at different depths, you have to extract soil core samples. Scientists have now determined that the same data can be obtained much more ...

Without t.p.; title and author from ms. note on first page. Text leaf captions all begin: Provisional names for soil colors ... Apparently produced in co-operation with personnel of the USDA soil ...

From the questions I receive about hydrangeas, I have concluded they have become one of the most popular plants in this area, and growing one specific color is important to some gardeners. Some want ...