LAST WEEK'S column provided a recipe for testing your garden soil's texture and discussed the management of sandy soils. This week, I'll focus on the management of clay, silt and loam soils and ...

Photo caption: This undated photo shows a shovelful of soil in New Paltz, N.Y. Good care, mostly by regularly adding plenty of organic materials and avoiding compaction, results in a soil with many ...

We'll also teach you how to amend the soil you have so you can grow the plants you want. Depending on where you live, you're likely to have one of six different types of soil: loam, clay, sandy, silty ...

Somewhere in this Land of Lincoln, on a ledge of fluorite far above the encrusted remains of Tullimonstrum gregarium, there sits a boy fishing for bluegills, while nearby a white-tailed deer browses ...

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The soil along the San Francisco Bay, which includes clay mixed with poorly drained silty clay loam, sandy and gravelly loam and bay mud, can cause ground movement that can lead to foundation problems ...

Both extremes in soil have their advantages and shortcomings. These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by ...

Both extremes in soil have their advantages and shortcomings. These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by ...

Both extremes in soil have their advantages and shortcomings. These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by ...

By now, you probably know what kind of soil you have out there in your "back 40." If planting that rose bush brought up wads of gummy goo, you know to call it clay. If instead you scooped up gritty ...