• Before the heat and dry air of spring and summer, update your irrigation system to in-line drip, flexible tubing with ...

The most beneficial time to water indoor plants is in the morning before they are exposed to the brightest light of the day. Morning watering gives any water splashed on the leaves time to evaporate ...

Pool noodles serve an important purpose for plant growth, and planters will require almost half the soil it would normally take.

“Although timing and placement can make fertilizer more efficient, they don’t change the amount of nutrients the plant uses,” Ferrie points out. “One thousand bushels of corn requires 740 l ...

In this guide, we show you how to plant rice seeds on the roof for natural insulation and create a water slide that leads directly into a swimming pool. A perfect combination of eco-living and fun!

but excessive fertilizer use harms the environment. If we could use mutually beneficial relationships between plant roots and soil microbes to enhance nutrient uptake, then we could potentially ...

Researchers have discovered a biological mechanism that makes plant roots more welcoming to ... as natural alternatives to inorganic-fertilizer across major crops, including cereals and legumes.

Promoting mutually beneficial relationships between plants and soil microbes that enhance nutrient acquisition by plants could improve crop production without increasing inorganic-fertilizer use.

Sewage sludge has been used as fertilizer for many years. Wastewater treatment plants produce millions of tons of it and tens of millions of acres of farmland have been allowed to use it, according to ...

Chemicals found in sewage sludge that some farmers use to fertilize fields and pastures ... It is plentiful — wastewater treatment plants produce millions of tons of it — but the EPA said ...

The National Association of Clean Water Agencies, which represents wastewater treatment plants across the country, said the findings reinforced that sludge fertilizer was not a risk to the public ...