Soil texture – Grow on the Go, What You Need to Know
Soil Texture, get the soil texture right and your onto a winner. My grow on the go, easy growing talks all about this in detail but if you use compost bags you need not worry for the most part. Grownthego.com the place to make growing a snap
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Soil texture; Soil consists largely of many individual mineral particles. Sand, silt, and clay are the three different types of mineral particles found in soil. Soil texture is a way of describing soils based on their proportions of sand, silt, and clay particles.
Texture has a huge impact on the behavior and characteristics of a soil, heavily influencing both quantity and availability of nutrients. Conveniently enough, soil texture is one of the few soil properties that can easily be determined in the garden through simple observations, which are very worthwhile exercises to practice.
Watching how a garden responds to rainy weather is an excellent indicator of soil texture. Gardens that puddle up and dry out very slowly most likely contain a high proportion of clay, whereas soil that drains freely and dries out quickly probably has a sandy makeup. A better feel for texture can be gotten by taking a sample of soil in you hands. Clay soils work up easily into a ball when moist. They feel rather sticky to the touch, and can be stretched and molded much like modeling clay. Silt soils can also be made into a ball when moist, however, they are not nearly as moldable as clay soils, and have a silky feel to the finger tips. Sandy soils tend to break apart when trying to make into a ball, and have a noticeable gritty feel to the touch. A “loamy” soil, which has relatively equal proportions of sand, silt, and clay, and is often the desire of most gardeners, will show off all these properties to some extent. It will make a ball that isn’t quite as elastic as a clay soil, and will also have a gritty yet silky feel.
A more precise form of in-home analysis of a soils texture can be done by filling a glass jar half full with a sample of soil, then filling the jar the rest of the way with water. The contents are stirred up in the jar and then left to settle apart. Sand particles, being the largest and heaviest will settle out first and fall to the bottom of the jar. Silt particles, being smaller than sand particles, will settle out as the second layer. Lastly the clay particles from the soil sample will settle out as the third layer and rest on top of the silt and sand. When all of the soil particles have settled, the three particle types will have formed three distinguishable bands. Measuring the thickness of each band and dividing it by the overall thickness of the soil sample will give a percentage value for each soil particle. Based on this analysis of soil texture, we can start to predict how our soil is going to behave and make appropriate decisions about management
My next article will go into this in more detail until then go see my easy growing grow on the go, I think you’ll be surprised at what can be grown very very simply
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