loamy soil
Gardener's ideal ground
Loamy soil is earth with a balanced mixture of sand, silt, and clay—the ideal growing medium for most plants.
It retains moisture and nutrients while draining well enough to prevent waterlogging.
Gardeners prize loamy soil for its dark color, crumbly texture, and fertility: We were lucky to find loamy soil when we started the vegetable garden.
- friableReadily reduced to fragments
- organic matterMaterial from living sources
- porosityVoid space density
- crop yieldAgricultural production amount
- growing seasonTime crops can mature
root vegetables · crumbly · silt · tilling · garden bed · raised beds · crop rotation · texture · irrigation · workable · seed germination · humus · aeration · water retention · composting · moist · mulching · fertilization
- Soiltopsoil, subsoil, dirt, earth, ground
- soil typesclay, silt, peat, topsoil, subsoil
- soil sciencetopsoil, subsoil, clay, sand, silt
- root vegetablescarrot, potato, beet, radish, turnip
- local gardeningnative plants, seasonal planting, growing seasons, hardiness zones, native shrubs
- Wheat BeltKansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Oklahoma
loamy soilclay soil
Dense mineral-rich earth
sandy soil · loose sand · gravel · rocky soil · hardpan
loamy soilbarren soil
Earth lacking fertility
dead soil · depleted soil · waterlogged soil · hardpan · toxic soil