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 ...

Downwind vegetation traps some of the entrained silt and clay as dust coatings on leaves, stems, trunks, and the soil surface. Trapping is especially effective when the vegetation is moist with ...

Soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic matter. Both the clay and organic matter particles have a net negative charge. Thus, these negatively-charged soil particles will ...

When European-American settlers first began ploughing in Iowa, they found the weather and local geology had combined this organic mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil ...

Ancient Egyptians called their land "Kemet," which meant "black," after the black fertile silt-layered soil that was left behind each year during the annual innundation, when the Nile flooded the ...

Unhealthy soil induces poor plant performance and growth. Marin County gardeners must frequently amend their soil with mulch ...

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 ...