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) accordingly.

Learn how to work with and amend this soil type for the best results. If your yard has sandy soil, you may be struggling to ...

Sandy soil can be tricky to work with as it doesn't retain moisture very well. Here's how to successfully plant a tree and keep it alive in sandy soil.

Soil is a mixture of tiny particles of rock, dead plants and animals, air and water. Different soils have different properties depending on their composition. Sandy soil is pale coloured and has ...

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 ...

In the Spokane Valley, glacial outwash gravels and, in some places, boulders fill the valley floor while the hillside are often a clayey sandy soil formed from the ancient, deformed granites.

Cricket pitches are predominantly made with a composition of soil and sand among the other contents such as slit. The composition of these materials is what determines how a pitch will behave at ...