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Showing posts with label soil texture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soil texture. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Getting to Know Your Soil: Colour



Every soil has it's own combinations of characteristics, that affect the nature of your soil and how it performs.  These characteristics can be broadly grouped into three, inter-connected, groupings:
  • Physical
  • Chemical
  • Biological

Lets Get Physical!

The physical characteristics of your soil are the aspects that you can actually see and feel.  They include it's colour, texture, structure, strength, depth and stoniness.

In this post, we're going to look solely at the colour of your soil.