Photo caption: This undated photo shows a shovelful of soil in New Paltz, N.Y. Good care, mostly by regularly adding plenty of organic materials and avoiding compaction, results in a soil with many ...

CORVALLIS, Ore. - It's a simple equation: If you want to grow better plants, you first need to understand the soil. "The texture of a soil is its proportion of sand, silt and clay," said James Cassidy ...

In a swampy finger of land separating the northern tip of Lake Quinsigamond from a vast gravel pit, environmental consultant Glenn E. Krevosky recently twisted a hand auger into the earth and, with a ...

Dreaming of gardening? Me too! This year I am staying on top of everything, weeds, fungicides, insect control, transplanting and harvesting — that’s the plan anyway. Starting your garden with healthy ...

HOUSTON - (Dec. 16, 2019) - The river may rage or gently roll, but in the end the sand and silt will have their way. Rice University Earth scientists and their colleagues have defined a surprising ...

Traditional ways of analyzing soil texture are slow. Researchers have shown a new, high-tech method that is fast, cost-effective, and portable. This technique could make it much easier to understand ...

What do glaciers and the Sahara Desert have in common? Both are sources of silt-size particles that interact with wind, sand, and vegetation to form loess deposits. Deflation, the lifting and removal ...

Gopal Sarkar is trying to revive his flood-affected field covered in four-five feet of sand and silt after the October 2023 flood that originated in Sikkim and affected parts of Jalpaiguri district ...

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Both extremes in soil have their advantages and shortcomings. These soils act the way they do mostly because of the size of the particles that make them up. Sand particles are relatively large (by ...