Since the first farmers tilled the soil more than 10,000 years ago, the plow has been the essential tool of human survival.

How did we get to a place where we think of soil as dirt? Soils are buzzing with life, criss-crossed with a hard-to-fathom ...

This 1930s silent science film sequence visually documents the parasitic growth of the dodder vine as it winds its way around host plants. The footage captures the vine’s snaking motion as it seeks ...

Moss Appreciation Week is packed with events both scientific... and also silly. Moss walks, moss talks, moss movies, crafting ...

For jade pothos in low light, the watering cadence depends on your specific conditions, but you should wait until the soil ...

February is a great time to get ahead with your vegetable growing, and there are six seeds which are perfect for the growing ...

Tough, tropical Tradescantia plants are easy to grow. They tolerate a variety of sun exposures and form dense mats, putting down roots wherever they touch the soil. "Their trailing nature makes ...

However, these are only what organic farming and gardening have always promoted, feeding the soil not the plants. Indeed, biodynamic techniques are also well established. From my own research the ...

Now is a good month to plant early potatoes and sow hardier veg like beetroot direct outdoors. Hardy annuals such as cornflowers and poppies can also now be sown direct outside, where they are to ...

Plants at Botanical Treasures, a perennials wholesaler in Fletcher, North Carolina, in Helene’s aftermath. Photo courtesy Robert Stine/Botanical Treasures. In several videos Robert Stine made of his ...