Dr. Mike Fidanza

Soil health and the perpetual reference to sustainability leads us to the last frontier: the rootzone environment and its’ inhabitants of soil microorganisms.

Lee is better known for Daconil fungicide. Back in 1963, he was working in the laboratory that produced the very first pound of DAC-2787, know today as Daconil.

Recently I was invited to the Vatican in Rome, Italy, to visit the historic gardens – how that came about is another story for another time. The Gardens of Vatican City, or informally known as the Vatican Gardens, were established by Pope Nicholas III in 1279. He planted an orchard, a lawn (“pratellum”), and a garden. Today the gardens cover…

Soil moisture sensors – in a variety of forms and products – are used in agriculture and horticulture to support crop and plant production systems, residential and commercial landscaping, grounds maintenance and land management, sports turf, weather forecasting, forestry, construction, and with all kinds of research (i.e., environmental, natural resource conservation, turfgrass science, etc.). [Tweet “”The global soil moisture sensor…

Reading a soil science textbook is not the same as reading a book from the New York Times best sellers list.  There’s no “Fifty Shades of Soil” to read that’s for sure!  An introductory course in soil science is taken at one point in the college career of every turf, hort, and ag student.  At most universities, the textbook used…