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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Sandy soil is pale coloured and has large particles. These create lots of small air gaps. Water drains through them easily so it usually feels dry. Clay soil is usually sticky and has small particles.

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 ...

Sandy soil should drain well, but heavy clay will hold onto rain and you may need to install drainage pipes at the base of your raised bed, which is an additional expense and effort. The base ...