Planter's choice

Usage examples of loam.

Crimson clover has highest adaptation for sandy loam soils into which the roots can penetrate easily.

Then he centered again and reached out to draw power from the crusty loam of the floor and the tree roots high above.

His crutch kept getting snagged by the thick cords that foamed over the loam.

A fat loam and a moist situation will suit this Gentian to perfection, and it may be planted with other strong herbaceous things in the borders, where it should be allowed to grow to large specimens.

II Young Hodge the Drummer never knew - Fresh from his Wessex home - The meaning of the broad Karoo, The Bush, the dusty loam, And why uprose to nightly view Strange stars amid the gloam.

Like the other knotweeds described, it enjoys a sandy loam, and requires nothing in the way of special culture.

Supplies-pots, sand, sphaguum, leafmold, loam, osmundine, charcoal, and crocks were kept in an unheated and unglazed room in the rear alongside the shaft where the outside elevator came up.

Their bones made up the wheat stalks, the soft loam under foot, the rugose trunks of shade-giving trees.

He heard the horse-hoofs by the myriads crushing down easily, deeply, into the loam, the prolonged clinking of tracechains, the working of the smooth brown flanks in the harness, the clatter of wooden hames, the champing of bits, the click of iron shoes against pebbles, the brittle stubble of the surface ground crackling and snapping as the furrows turned, the sonorous, steady breaths wrenched from the deep, labouring chests, strap-bound, shining with sweat, and all along the line the voices of the men talking to the horses.

Highest in general suitability, probably, are clay loams underlaid with a moderately porous clay subsoil.

This means that it will usually grow with much luxuriance in all areas which produce hardwood timber, and are usually covered with a clay or muddy loam soil underlaid with clay.

This means, therefore, that it will grow well in probably all kinds of clay soils and also in loam soils underlaid with clay.

Use either a top-grade commercial soil mixture, or combine equal parts sand, vermiculite, compost, and rich garden loam.

And, fronting his lonely home, For weeks together the settler sees The teams bogged down to the axletrees, Or ploughing the sodden loam.

A cool, drizzly wind was blowing in the year 52,435 when Zanna, Barong, Hugh and I took it in turns with our single clumsy shovel, half-melted as its edge had been by nano attack, to dig a place in the rich loam where we might bury Grace.