It’s easier to create good loamy soil for a raised bed. You can mix quality topsoil with organic matter. Be mindful of the source of your topsoil—it can vary significantly in quality.

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 ...

I would like to improve the heavy clay soil in my vegetable garden. A friend suggested that I rototill several inches of sand to improve the drainage. Is that a good way to improve clay soil ...

The soil in which stimulation was noted was a calcareous loam high in organic content. If the number of ammonifiers in a soil are increased by the addition of sodium arsenite to a soil, their ...