loamy
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It adds nutrients, attracts beneficial microbes and — perhaps most important — helps create a loamy soil that more easily absorbs and retains the water it receives.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 31, 2023
Nestled along coastal waterways, which created fertile loamy soil, the Low Country is abundant with fresh seafood, produce, and grains.
From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2022
Asters do best in loamy soil in full sun.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
The gravelly, loamy, often granitic soils drain well, and are a welcoming terrain for the wide variety of grapes that are grown there.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 2021
He’d gone several yards along the loamy vein before he realized no one was following.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
We’re used to adding organic matter in the form of compost, leaf mold, peat moss or some similar amendment to make the soil loamier, but in older times a pasture was often the source.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 20, 2015
The new foundation led to a much deeper and loamier track than in years past, and the majority of the riders that we talked to seemed to like it.
From Time Magazine Archive
