Soil pH affects the availability of nutrients that plants need to do well. A pH of 7 is neutral, a number below 7 is acid, ... If you order black dirt for your yard or garden, ...

True gardeners rarely refer to soil as simply dirt. They understand the difference between the stuff you dig up in your back yard vs. the “black gold” that consists of compost, manure, … ...

Working the dirt: Joe Icet says good soil is the key to better gardening By Jill Carroll Updated Oct 30, 2015 9:38 p.m. Last Organic Outpost founder Joe Icet runs an urban farm in the Fifth Ward.

Eighty years ago, on April 14, 1935, an ominous wall of blowing sand and dust swept across the Great Plains. This day is known in history as Black Sunday. During the 1930s, the Dust Bowl days were ...

Dirt Doctors Help Cure Soil's Deepest Problems. By . Eileen White Read. ... His diagnosis: sick soil. "It was sticky like black chewing gum," he says. "You couldn't get it off your shovel." ...

The Black Dirt is the onion — nice, bold, hardy New York onions, not those sweet ones from out West. Though not the king crop it once was, it is still the largest one grown here, with 150 ...