Before you dig a garden, it's important to figure out what type of soil you have and then select plants (and amend your soil) ...

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.

Sandy soil is pale coloured and has large particles. These create lots of small air gaps. Water drains through them easily so it usually feels dry. Clay soil is usually sticky and has small particles.

The most substantial of these are the lithic environments, where well-developed microbial communities have colonized cracks in rocks (these ... January 2002 stimulated soil diversity and microbial ...

And not just any soil. Over the next few days they’ll be adding 6,000 cubic yards of specially manufactured soil to cover the crossing, a mix of sand, silt and clay ... and lots of soil ...