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.

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