Garden Loam

Garden

A garden is a planned space, usually outdoors, set aside for the cultivation, display, and enjoyment of plants and other forms of nature. The single feature identifying even the wildest wild garden is control. The garden can incorporate both natural and artificial materials.

Loam

Loam is soil composed mostly of sand, silt, and a smaller amount of clay. By weight, its mineral composition is about 40–40–20% concentration of sand, silt and clay, respectively. These proportions can vary to a degree, however, and result in different types of loam soils: sandy loam, silty loam, clay loam, sandy clay loam, silty clay loam, and loam.

garden

Noun

1. An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
2. Such an ornamental place to which the public have access.

Verb

1. To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden.
2. Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities.

loam

Noun

1. A type of soil; an earthy mixture of sand, silt and clay, with organic matter to which its fertility is chiefly due.
2. A mixture of sand, clay, and other materials, used in making moulds for large castings, often without a pattern.

Verb

1. To cover, smear, or fill with loam.