Gardeners love loam soil because it's moist, soft and full of nutrients. Here's how to get more of it in your garden beds.

The mineral component of soil is made up of clay, silt, and sand particles. The relative amounts of these materials are what we use to describe the texture of a soil or soil type. The best way to ...

Farmers, potters and residents of the district can take silt and clay free of cost from dry irrigation tanks to nourish their ranches, make pots and for personal use such as filling up low-lying ...

Silt-size particles are especially susceptible to wind deflation-they lack the electrostatic charge and affinity for water that make clay-size particles stick to the surface, have less mass ...

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 ...