By Bruce Spangenberg Soils are the foundation of gardens and landscapes, featuring characteristics that vary among locations ...

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 ...

Mineral particles in soil are classified as either sand, silt or clay, depending upon their size. The proportion of each of these three different sized mineral particles in a soil is referred to ...

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 ...

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 ...