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.

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) ...

WRENSHALL — “Terroir” is a French term referring to environmental factors that affect a crop’s unique traits.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...