Many gardeners bemoan the presence of heavy clay soil, but there's a case for its use in your yard thanks to certain benefits ...

It seems that gardeners brag about their flowers, their big tomatoes and their beautiful trees but one of the things they don’t seem to brag about is their dirt. Good dirt should be the envy ...

Clem Sturmfels, Land Management Extension OfficerIsolated dust storms recently are a reminder of how fragile some of our soils are.They are also a ...

Soils are the foundation of gardens and landscapes, featuring characteristics that vary among locations in Wisconsin. Success ...

Desert Control, in their words, plans to use nanoclay to take unproductive desert land “from sand to hope”. Using clay to improve soils is nothing new – farmers have been doing so for ...

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 ...

According to Mark Conrardy, sales engineering manager at Wacker Corp., soil can be broken down into four basic groups: clay, silt, sand and gravel. "The most important characteristic is particle ...

You may be surprised to learn that the common mineral components of soil — clay, silt, sand — are not present in potting soil mix. It usually includes pumice, perlite and vermiculite ...

After hundreds of years of development, Philadelphia has lost much of the organic matter, minerals, sand and clay that make up natural soil. Instead, underneath our feet is lots of "rubble ...