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) ...

Learning how to improve clay soil for gardening will increase the health of your flowers and the yields of your crops.

CEC is the ability of soil to hold and exchange cations (positively charged nutrients). Higher CEC means better nutrient ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

South of Spokane on the Palouse, we find the wind-blown Palouse loess, a fine-grained soil that supports the irrigation-free grain crops. Spokane’s South Hill has a lot of clay that has ...