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--- garden:intro:soil:types [2025/07/17 21:08] – davidbac
+++ garden:intro:soil:types [2025/07/17 21:39] (current) – davidbac
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-===== Types of "soil" =====
+===== "Earth soil" =====
+This is only a brief introduction to the physical components of soil. Essential components of soil are at least sand, silt and clay. The relative proportion of those components determines the physical nature of the soil. The range of earth soils I work with go from sandy loam (primarily sand and silt, with a small amount of clay) to predominately clay (very little sand and silt and lots of clay).
+These components of soil don't define its fertility - minerals, micro-organisms and organic matter determine the fertility of the soil.
-This is only a brief introduction to the physical components of soil. It doesn't include a discussion of soil fertility. Soil contains at a minimum sand, silt and clay. The relative proportions of those components determines the physical nature of the soil. The range of soils I work with go from sandy loam (primarily sand and silt, with a small amount of clay) to predominately clay (very little sand and silt and lots of clay). (Minerals, micro-organisms and organic matter determine the fertility of the soil.)
 ==== Sandy loam ====
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 I have been amending the soil with green manure cover crops, organic fertilizer and quality compost, so I have seen noticeable improvement in the previous 18 months.
 ==== Clay ====