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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.

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53 μm (silt+clay fraction). The detailed procedure is shown in Sun et al. (2021). Bulk soil samples were also collected from each plot at the same time. To achieve representative samples, five random ...