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 ...

What Is Loam Soil? Loam soil is a balanced mixture of sand, silt and clay, ideal for growing garden plants.Loam’s mineral content and the way the three sizes of particles work together combine ...

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 ...

Sandy soils have lots of air spaces between particles but very little water-holding capacity. They are good for growing many kinds of plants that need good drainage and lots of air in the soil.

By now, you probably know what kind of soil you have out there in your “back 40.” If planting that rose bush brought up wads of gummy goo, you know to call it clay. If instead you scooped up ...

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 to picking the right plants for the ...

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 ...