Before you dig a garden, it's important to figure out what type of soil you have and then select plants (and amend your soil) accordingly.

A soil test is only as accurate as the sample on which it is made. A soil sample weighing about 1/2 pound is used to represent thousands of pounds of soil in the lawn or garden. Therefore, it is ...

Identifying Clay Soil To confirm you have clay soil, try the "squeeze test" using a damp sample of the dirt ... People with silty soil have the best of both worlds; it's a fertile soil that ...

To grow good plants, you need good soil. The only way to tell what your soil really needs is to take a soil test. Applying too much fertilizer could be detrimental to your plants. You could waste ...

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The protocols for isolation of high-quality DNA from soil samples are based either on the recovery of cells and subsequent lysis, or on the direct lysis of cells in the sample followed by DNA ...

Gerry Wright, a biochemist at McMaster University who led the research, says lariocidin was found in a bacteria called Paenibacillus that was “cultivated from a soil sample that we obtained here ...