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
On some nights, when the wind drifted south, he could smell the cattle, their dung giving off a lush, loamy scent.
From New York Times ● May 26, 2022
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
The wine comes off a bit hot with sweetened chocolate and overripe black fruits that mingle with loamy soils on the palate.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 16, 2021
The nightshade smells of earth, damp, loamy, pungent, and of cat piss.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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
