Majority of the island has a sandy loam soil not enough to support a forest.

Learn more about why loam soil is the ideal medium for growing plants in this article.

Endowed with fine loam soil, farming became an early business.

Instead, he plowed it under, back into the sandy loam soil.

These loam soils are all well suited for agricultural purposes.

Plants enjoy a sandy loam soil that has good drainage.

The following description applies to a loam soil and agricultural crops.

The growing region has dense clay and loam soils.

The sandy loam soil of the region is high in calcium and alkaline.

Early potatoes, the main specialised crop, did well on the red clay/loam soils.

Vineyards in the area are planted on predominately loam soils.

Black oak grows best on well drained, silty clay to loam soils.

A small vineyard on the right bank of the Rhine has a gravel and sand loam soil.

The lowland is formed by fluvio-lacustrine loam soil about 120 m thick.

In a silty loam soil, its photodegradation half-life was 30 days.

Peanuts grow best in light, sandy loam soil.

White oak and big-leaf maple grow in the loam soil found on the higher slopes.

On the loam soils of the Sonneberg foothills the ground is waterlogged in places.

The soil is generally red gravel but sandy loam soil also exists in some places.

Rosemary grows on friable loam soil with good drainage in an open, sunny position.

With its fertile sandy loam soil, it also has a large percentage of the region's 3,000 acres devoted to grapes.

It is best grown in sandy loam soils, but is suitable to many other soil types.

It grows in full sun to part shade, in sandy or clay loam soils.

The shallow, rocky sandy loam soils of the summits are mostly covered in forest.

Loam soil feels soft and crumbly and is easy to work over a wide range of moisture conditions.