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) ...

In Iowa they call it “black gold” – a fertile blanket covering ... mulch with sand and silt to form a nutrient-rich type of soil called loam. It gave Iowa one of the most fertile soils ...

TASS/. A scientific team led by Doctor of Geographic Sciences Yury Chendev from Belgorod State University (BelSU) determined the changes that flat black soils had undergone in the Belgorod Region ...