These range from loose sandy soils to waterlogged peats to the beautifully balanced loam that is so well suited to agriculture. But human activity is destroying the balance and one-third of the ...

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 ...

In my experience, peony plants thrive best in rich, well-draining soils such as loam, with a slightly acidic pH range of 6.5 ...

The bulk of soil is made up of a mixture of organic matter, rock and mineral particles. However, it's the air, water and nutrients in the ground that the growing plant really relies on.

I pulled up a small lawn of St. Augustine grass by hand, one small area at a time, with a shovel and my trusty hori knife.

But really, there were substantial differences. In both soil types — silt loam and silty clay loam — chiseling followed by vertical harrowing yielded the most, and one pass with a soil ...

"As we know, there's too much carbon in our atmosphere, but some people don't realise that there's actually not enough carbon within our agricultural soils," Loam Bio co-founder Tegan Nock says.

Tasmania's best soil judges are about to put their skills to the test in an international competition.The two teams of ...