Hello your most welcome in our article I will tell you Now once you have gotten rid of your grass sod you finally have a chance to really look at what the soil is like underneath it all and it really matters what your soil is like so in some cases you will be blessed with a lawn that has very rich beautiful soil underneath and in other cases like in a newer construction site oftentimes maybe the construction folks have put some pretty cheap fill down and so you may be positively surprised or disappointed with what you find. So here is a very basic but very useful soil test to just let yourself know what basic category of soil you have.
Types of soil in worldwide
So I’m going to start with clay So this is the characteristic of clay it is hard it is crumbly it is breaking apart and if i got this moist i would be able to form this into a clay ball and i would be able to roll it into a worm like shape and if i hit the ball it would be hard i could throw the ball and catch it it would stay together secure this is very dry clay and that’s why it’s not behaving that way. So the secret if you have two clay soil you add organic matter you add compost all right that’s how you correct that At the other end of the spectrum we’ve got very sandy soil so here is the ball test Can i form a ball at all ?
Types of soil in worldwide
No i cannot it just falls apart it’s got a lot of sand now the great thing about sand is it has excellent drainage you want sandier soils for things like carrots but it also doesn’t hold nutrients very well you know and it also dries out quite quickly and so you the secret to correcting to sandy soil is you add organic material like compost or manure it’s the same trick as what you do. And then the third is the soil that’s growing in my garden and that is this is what you want to be looking for so you form a ball and it can hold a ball shape but then if you poke at it not too hard it crumbles apart and that is really the ideal texture for your soil so you’ve got good aeration you’ve got good drainage, you’ve got good nutrient retention in there and what i did was i took soil that was a little too clay actually for this area and i added organic material and what you see there is composted sheet manure and so that is what I’m going to recommend for you is the easiest fail-proof, one-step, one-stop shopping way to make great soil for your veggie garden is you just add manure you add compost and thank you so much friends for reading this article .
