Wouldn’t it be great to be able to grow vegetables year after year without the back-breaking process of digging and turning over soil? With no-dig gardening, you can, and it’s clear to see why ...

THE turn-over of soil organic matter is a much-discussed problem in pedology. Although much has been written about the rate of breakdown of soil organic matter in mull and mor (for references see ref.

Tomoyoshi Futenma, an Okinawa prefectural government official in charge of environmental issues, lamented the U.S. military's decision not to turn over soil samples, calling it “extremely ...