Design your raised bed garden layout to maximize sunlight and layer with a ground cloth, limestone, sand, organic matter, and garden soil. Gardening in raised beds requires less equipment compared ...

Soil moisture “that has left the soil layers and hasn’t been replenished for decades is unlikely to return to its original levels,” said Samaniego, a researcher at Helmholtz Centre for ...

Soils are becoming severely degraded due to a combination of intensive farming practices and natural processes. As the layer of fertile topsoil thins, it gets increasingly difficult to grow crops ...

Compacted soil layers can either hold water in (by creating poor drainage), or keep water out (by preventing inadequate water infiltration and creating conditions that are too dry for plant growth ...