If you love soil so much that you want to learn everything about it, then you are spoilt for choice for course options in the United Kingdom (UK). Here, I've made a list of all the courses and...
Category: Plant and Soil Science
Proctor density is the optimum water content at which a soil will compact to its maximum density under any particular applied and controlled load. But how can we calculate it and why is it useful?
How to create simple diagrams in Inkscape – a guide for scientists
If you're wanting to create a diagram in Inkscape for your scientific research project, then this simple guide will help get you started.
Soil health is a much debated topic, but here I consider whether to have 'health,' does it matter whether soil is classed as alive?
If a plant has Plant Breeder Rights, you will often see the acronym ‘PBR’ after the plant name. Find out all about them in this article which discusses the advantages and disadvantages.
Maybe you have just got your first garden or maybe you are trying to grow the best veggies and flowers? Whatever the reason, it helps to know what kind of soil you have; the good bits and the bad...