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The bright, lip-puckering sourness of lemons? That’s the result of acid. So is the cutting tang of vinegar and the slightly sharp flavor of soda. In each case, your tongue is detecting an abundance of hydrogen ions (H+) in the food. ...

Your plants, whether flowers, vegetables, grain crops, or trees, need several things to grow: nutrients, water, and sunlight. It sounds simple enough, right? Unfortunately, gardening is hardly that easy. Different plants require different amounts of water and sunlight, and because ...

If you have acidic soil, defined as soil with a pH under 7.0, you might wonder which vegetables and fruit you can grow. Blueberries come to mind, of course, but unless you have very acidic soil, you can grow most ...

. Vegetable gardening can be highly rewarding; it can also be sorely disappointing. Torrential rains followed by scorching heat cause a host of problems, from blossom end rot to dropping blossoms. Diseases and insect pests ravage the garden, and let’s ...

Dear Joel, I have southern California clay soil with embedded/encased/entombed river bed-like rocks that range from pond skipping to softball size. It has made just growing grass difficult! I have been digging down about a foot and filling with various organic ...

To grow crops successfully, you need to have good soil. Some people are fortunate enough to live in an area in which the soil is rich with nutrients and perfect for growing vegetables. For the rest of us, there are ...