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Soil Texture and What it Means for Your Plants

The basic idea: The texture of soils can be divided into three parts according to particle size and structure: sand, silt, and clay. The various concentrations and organization of these three types of particles is what gives a soil its physical structure, and it is the physical structure of your soil that has a lot [...]

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Soil pH

What to do with your soil’s pH The basic idea: Acidity and basicity are measured on a pH scale of 1 to 14. A pH of 7 is considered neutral, lower numbers are acidic and higher numbers are basic. Depending on a soil’s pH some nutrients may or may not be able to be absorbed [...]

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