Our results indicate that ecosystems on sandy soils are more sensitive to soil drying, whereas those on fine-textured soils (such as clay) are more sensitive to atmospheric drying. Similarly ...

Regardless of your soil type, improving soil health means increasing its ability to hold water and nutrients and provide ...

Sandy soil - feels rough and gritty when handled and will not form distinct shapes like clay. It usually has a sandy brown colour and is easy to dig over. Water-logging is rare on such soils as ...

Soil texture refers to the amount of sand, silt and clay percentages. The best combination for plant growth is a loamy soil. Loamy soils consist of 40% sand, 33.1% silt, and 26.9% clay.

Ask your children to consider why this might be? Many soils are a combination of sand, clay, chalk and may have silt or peat or lime within it. Each soil type, has a set of characteristics that ...

Desert Control, in their words, plans to use nanoclay to take unproductive desert land “from sand to hope”. Using clay to improve soils is nothing new – farmers have been doing so for ...

The relative ability of soils to store one particular group of nutrients, the cations, is referred to as cation exchange capacity or CEC. Soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay and ...

Norwegian scientist Kristian Morten Olesen has patented a process to mix nano-particles of clay with water and bind them to sand particles to condition desert soil - he has been working on Liquid ...