If you keep trying to grow food in your garden but nothing turns out right, there could be something wrong with the soil. Try ...

Not knowing what your soil type is could be seriously affecting your plant's ability to grow to their full potential ...

A soil is seldom composed of 100% clay or 100% silt, but some combination of two or three mineral elements, along with organic matter. From the standpoint of soil type, one of these minerals will ...

Silt particles make a soil feel silky. The ideal soil is not one that is predominantly sand, silt, or clay, but one that has all these particles in amounts that let each express itself.

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 ...

Silt loam has a little more silt in it. Clay loam has more clay in it." Soil needs to be able to hold some water, he added, but not so much that plant roots can't breathe.

Clay particles are less than 0.002 mm; silt from 0.002 to 0.05 mm and sand particle size ranges from to 2.0 mm. Combinations of sand and silt form a sandy/loam soil, whereas clay and silt form a ...

Silt particles make a soil feel silky. The ideal soil is not one that is predominantly sand, silt, or clay, but one that has all these particles in amounts that let each express itself.

Soil consists of a mixture of sand, silt, and clay particles, along with organic matter. As part of the soil test, Heilig says, have a soil-texture test run to show what you're dealing with.

Legislation that failed once before was recently passed by Springfield and signed by Gov. Bruce Rauner that will allow the Fox Waterway Agency to secure a permanent home for dredged material to be ...

EAGLE — The new Eagle Valley Elementary School is being built where glaciers deposited shifting clay and silt soil. The soil is fine, generally, but it won’t stand up. Breaking News - Vail, Beaver ...