HORT 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Soil Type

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Horticultural Science
• Course: HORT 1130
• Professor: Alan Sullivan

Document Summary

Sand well drained ; poor water holding capacity. Clay poor drained ; good h2o holding. Silt good drained ; good water holding. For our gardens the best we can hope for is a silty loam soil. You can make loam by adding other types of soil. You have sandy soil, you add clay, this will create loam. You can add organic matter to help the soil, this helps the soil bind together and hold water and nutrients. Friable this relates to texture, if you were to take the soil and squeeze it into a ball you should be able to break it up again. Compaction the soil has become compacted, this i sbad for plants because the roots cannot grow or breathe.