You can grow cucumbers vining on the ground, but for best results, try growing them vertically. Cucumbers don't like wet soil, so water them regularly, but just to keep the soil slightly damp.

To grow even more food in your garden, try growing cover crops. These crops, which include species such as cowpeas, vetch, ryegrass, clover and field peas, offer many benefits: improved soil ...

Good food starts with soil. Soil is the blank canvas where all food starts. It's what food consumes, but it's rarely considered in discussions about what we should eat. In the book, “What Your Food ...

From water-less deserts to the sun-less underground, soil-less farming is offering new possibilities to feed an increasingly urban, growing global population in a more Earth-friendly way.

Plants growing in soil with the soil food web won’t require fertilizers, pesticides or supplemental irrigation. These are all excellent reasons to establish and maintain the soil food web in the ...

Summer in Florida is the rainy season and with that comes long periods of persistently wet soil. This can create significant challenges for those who want to grow food crops but cannot escape the ...

You may be surprised to learn, though, that almost anyone can grow food at home—even people who live in apartments. The following are some of the easiest foods to grow in an apartment.

He collected some soil from McMurdo Sound and used it to grow mustard and cress in boxes under a skylight aboard the expedition’s ship. The crop was immediately beneficial to the expedition.

Feb. 20 (UPI) --Soils around the world are running low on potassium, a key nutrient needed for plants to grow. This ultimately means we may not be able to grow enough food for everyone. But it's ...