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.

Learning how to improve clay soil for gardening will increase the health of your flowers and the yields of your crops. Thankfully, it's not as difficult as it first appears – there are short ...

Planting may also be difficult as spades frequently hit lumps of hard chalk or flint Clay soil - this is ... most times of the year Silty soil - is made up of fine grains, originally deposited ...

soil organisms take the oxygen they need from nitrates, leaving the nitrogen in a gaseous form which escapes into the air. This is known as denitrification and is the common source of nitrogen loss in ...

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

Care requirements: Full sun to partial shade; well-drained to heavy clay soils ...

Although fine textured soils have the highest total ... of flowpaths (Childs & Collis-George 1950, Vogel 2008). Clay-rich soils have low saturated hydraulic conductivity due to a highly tortuous ...

When he took over the farm from his parents, the soil had a lot of fine particles. The silt, sand, and clay making up the soil would come apart easily. After a heavy rain, the soil would become ...

Eluviation is the removal of soil, clay, silt or fine organic matter in suspension from a soil horizon. The iron and aluminium oxides collect in the 'B' horizon where the iron oxides can ...