Photo caption: This undated photo shows a shovelful of soil in New Paltz, N.Y. Good care, mostly by regularly adding plenty of organic materials and avoiding compaction, results in a soil with many ...

A successful garden starts with the soil. Knowing the composition of a soil helps with managing fertilization, irrigation, and crop selection. In soil language the composition of a soil is known as ...

It’s a simple equation: If you want to grow better plants, you first need to understand the soil. “The texture of a soil is its proportion of sand, silt and clay,” said James Cassidy, a soils ...

Sand and silt in rivers dramatically change their means of transport at a sharp boundary between grain sizes, regardless of how fast the river flows. A universal transport algorithm revealed the break ...

Borehole water is a valuable source of water for many homes, especially in areas without reliable municipal supply. However, borehole water often contains impurities such as sand, silt, rust, bacteria ...