Successfully to be engaged in cultivation of any given agricultures and fruit-trees, it is necessary to know soil type on which you plan them to put. Possessing reliable information concerning the soil, you can fertilize it and adjust depending on requirement of your plants a little.
It is required to you
- - test of the soil.
Instruction
1. To receive exact results, take sample of the earth and send her to special laboratory. Take sample of the soil from the site before application of fertilizers and carrying out lime application.
2. For this purpose in different places of the land plot dig out a pole shovel (this depth is necessary to plants for food and free placement) and from a wall of each pole scrape off from below up a thin layer of the earth. Put the earth in a bucket, carefully mix also not less than 1 kg. bring to the received mix to laboratory.
3. Pay attention that the accuracy of the analysis is influenced by time when you carry out test of the soil. It needs to be done to or after the period of vegetation of plants, that is in the early spring (before application of fertilizers) or late fall, 2 months later after the last application of fertilizers.
4. If you have no opportunity to pay services of laboratory, it is possible to measure soil type by eye and to the touch. So, dark mails are considered as more fertile, not for nothing there is such term as "chernozem". They contains a lot of humus, giving it dark gray coloring.
5. Peat soils have almost black color, it is caused by high content in them organic weight. Yellowish-gray color is characteristic of sandy layers, and light-brown of the loamy soil. Clay can be different color – from brown and reddish to whitish.
6. For definition of type of the soil to the touch, pound a handful of the damp, but not wet earth between fingers. If the soil does not stick together and the sandy or sandy soil does not roll down in a ball, before you and if rolls down, then you deal with sandy loam.
7. It is easy to define the clay soil if to try to curtail an earth handful into sausage and then to bend a ring. It will be possible - before you obviously clay.
8. It is possible to define quality of the soil by means of the plants sprouting on the site. For example, camomiles, daisies and a white clover are characteristic of the poor and poor harvest soil. And the horsetail, coltsfoot and buttercups testify to the heavy and wet earth.