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There's not much you can do about plants and seeds that rotted in May's slogfest, but you can do a lot to head off future wet-soil trouble.

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The UN nuclear watchdog chief will visit storage facilities for vast quantities of soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima disaster for the first time this week. That is on top of the monster task ...

A government agency is funding research into phytomining, in which plants are used to extract valuable metals from the soil through their roots.

Testing your soil sounds like a pain, but it is one of the best investments for making your garden produce better blooms and fruit.

Water is critical for calcium absorption as that is how it travels from the roots through the plant; insufficient watering will leave your plants unable to absorb the nutrients present in the soil.