Before you dig a garden, it's important to figure out what type of soil you have and then select plants (and amend your soil) ...

Gardeners love loam soil because it's moist, soft and full of nutrients. Here's how to get more of it in your garden beds.

I recently got a question from a reader about where to get good soil and compost. Part of her request was for “organic” soil ...

Many of the iconic Southern flowers like azaleas, magnolias, and dogwoods bloom in April. Learn more about these flowering ...

Healthy soil is a dynamic living ecosystem: a complex combination of minerals and organic matter containing ... peats to the beautifully balanced loam that is so well suited to agriculture.

they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil called loam. It gave Iowa one of the most fertile soils on the ...

Data from a poorly drained silt loam soil, low in organic matter, in southeastern Indiana illustrates some intermediate tillage practice effects as well as year-to-year variations (Table 2). Earthworm ...

For 50 years, scientists in Großbeeren have studied how different fertilization strategies affect vegetable and soil quality.

Part of her request was for “organic” soil and compost ... West of Spokane, soils are a mix of Palouse loam and the remnants of the glacial flood scouring and outwash. North of Spokane ...