Muscadines grow best in fertile sandy loam and alluvial soils. Acidic, clay or loam soils are tolerable. These alluvial deposits consist of clay, loam, silt etc. Soils in Harlingen range in texture from fine sandy loam to clay. But sometimes it varies from clayey to sandy loam. Soils are mostly well drained brown fine sandy loam of the Milpitas series. Soils in Goleta are mostly well drained brown fine sandy loam of the Milpitas series. The species grows best in moist, acidic loam or clay soil, and tolerates poor drainage. This is overlain by marine clay or stony sandy loam glacial till. Langlade County has a soil rarely found outside of the county called Antigo silt loam. The undulating surface of rich, gravelly loam made agriculture an early occupation. They grow best in deep well-drained loam which has thick dark topsoil. Soil is ideally a sandy loam with pH 6.5 to 7.2. These glaciers also deposited stony sandy loam till. Yalumba grows the grape in the loam and clay soil of the Eden Valley.