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) accordingly.

The largest particles are sand, the smallest (or finest) are clay, and silt falls somewhere in between. Combine all three in the right proportions and you have loam — often considered the best ...

Significant problems are showing up on medium-textured soils, such as silt loam--a texture, found throughout most of the state. Observations in central Indiana indicate that the somewhat poorly ...

CEC in Soil groups Examples meg/100g----- Light colored sands Plainfield 3-5 Bloomfield Dark colored sands Maumee 10-20 Gilford Light colored loams and Clermont-Miami 10-20 silt loams Miami Dark ...