It may be that the natural soil occurring in your garden isn't the best option. There are a lot of reasons why using a loamy ...

If there’s any near-perfect soil type, it’s loam, which is a fairly balanced blend of clay, sand, and silt. Loamy soil drains well and is high in nutrients. The pH level varies, but tends ...

David Kuchta, Ph.D. has 10 years of experience in gardening and has read widely in environmental history and the energy transition. An environmental activist since the 1970s, he is also a ...

How to Create the Ideal Soil Mixture for Your Plants The Spruce / Cori Sears Loam describes the ideal soil composition for most garden plants (although some plants require sandy, rocky, or clay ...

If it was around 50 percent sand and 50 percent clay, the middle of the left side would be highlighted. Scientists call soil made from all three components loam. If it has more clay than a good ...

These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by definition from 2- to 5-hundredths of a millimeter across).

Not every gardener gets good dirt. In fact, the coveted sandy loam is uncommon in this area. Most of us get dirt with too much clay or too much sand -- and that creates a challenge when it comes ...

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 ...

Silt loam soils, with a higher silt proportion, help buffer against salinity. In South Dakota, sandy loam soils caused greater yield declines under saline conditions than silty clay loams (Butcher et ...

From the Garden: Clay, sand, silt, loam: How different soils affect gardens. Posted May 17, 2021. Updated May 17, 2021. By LEE REICH The Associated Press. 3 min read . Font size + Gift article.

If instead you scooped up gritty particles that didn’t clump together, you have the other extreme, a sand. Both extremes in soil have their advantages and shortcomings. These soils act the way ...