With the crack of dawn, somewhere, a gardener trudges into their garden. They squat down on the garden bed and start digging the soil with a shovel. For them, it’s as harmless as a cup of morning tea.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Soil is soil, right? In some years, the dirt in your garden yields decent tomatoes and pretty marigolds while in other years nothing much grows. (Maybe ...

Healthy soil is key for having a healthy garden. (Chad Surmick / The Press Democrat, 2024) Much like the vast world of plants and animals above ground, a dark, busy world of flora, fauna and fungi ...

DENVER — While recent rains have been great, they can lead to mistakes. Avoid digging in or trampling on saturated soil. The air gets squeezed out of the soil. You end up with adobe, especially if you ...