Understanding Soil Types and Soil Texture (test your own soil)
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This video will show you a way to measure the amount of sand, silt and clay in your soil, and then help you figure out your soil type.
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Understanding Soil Types and Soil Texture (test your own soil)
Today I’ll show you a simple way to measure the amount of sand, silt and clay in your soil. I’ll also show you how to use the soil texture triangle to figure out the type of soil you have.
This information will help select the right plants, or if you are trying to figure out why certain plants are not growing well. This information will also help you select the right amount of fertilizer and water for your garden.
You will need a clear container. An old jar works well. Try to get one with vertical sides, and a flat bottom. I am going to use an old peanut butter container. The bottom is not perfectly flat but it is good enough for this test.
Take the soil and add it to the jar so that it is about ¾ full.
Now add water to almost fill the jar. You want to leave some air space at the top of the jar for mixing.
Place the lid on the jar…. Then shake. Let it sit undisturbed.
Let the jar sit for 1 minute.
Since sand is heavier than silt and clay it settles in less than a minute.
Wait 1 hour. Silt is heavier than clay, and will settle next.
Wait 24 hours for the clay to settle. Since clay is made up of very fine particles it take a long time to settle.
I’ve emptied the jar, and can now see the marks very clearly.
Take a ruler and measure the distance between the marks.
Working in mm will make the math easier than using inches.
Calculations and soil texture
The next step in the process is to calculate the percent of sand, silt and clay in your soil. This is easily done and I will show you exactly how to do it.
The soil texture, by definition, consists of sand, silt and clay, and those three parts added together make up 100%.
In our experiment we measured the amounts using millimeters but the units don’t matter since we will be converting them to a percent. Sand had a value of 30, Silt was 22, and clay was 25, with a total of 77.
To convert these numbers to % we do the following calculation.
% sand is equal to 30 divided by 77 times 100, or 39%.......
% silt is equal to 22divided by 77 times 100, which is 29%. I’m rounding to whole numbers which is accurate enough for gardening.
% clay is 25 divided by 77 or 32%. ……You can see that the sum of the three values equals 100%.
These numbers tell you how much sand, silt or clay you have, but we can take this one step further and figure out the type of soil you have.
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I heard from someone quoted Albert Einstein. Einstein said “a great teacher speaks with everyday word that everyone can understand.” I understood everything he said and I’m not an American.
Amazing video. Language is clear, accent professional, speed of language appropriate, explanation is not verbose, spoke to express not to impress. I am a layman but understood the soil science well.
@pppsss5653
3 жыл бұрын
Good comment..👍
@nunnnunn2552
2 жыл бұрын
A layman who uses the word, verbose.
Thank you! I am a first-year teacher and will be teaching soils soon. I have never used the soil triangle but your explanation made it very clear and I'm looking forward to teaching it to my students.
I wish you were teaching soil mechanics and geology at my uni! Natural teacher!
This is just what I need for my science lab. I couldn't figure out hot to find the % from ml but this was quite clear and as a person who loves to garden this experience looks fun and easy. THANK YOU I am so subscribing
Thank you so much. Me being a visual learner really appreciate this video. Big time help.
This weekend I'm going to try to cook my own indicator to measure the pH values, and now i discovered this awesome tri-angle. Thank you so much for this video and information! I think it will be very useful for my garden and potted plants.
No words could appreciate the value of your teaching!.. I just take a Bow!
I just moved into my house and gained a garden with cactus and morning glories and tons of nightshade. I'm very curious of what I'm working with before I really got crazy planting stuff. THANK YOU!! I'm too cheap to buy a test soil kit. This seems more of an enjoyable learning experience too! Doing it with my daughter asap. 🌵🏜⚘🌴🌲🌻🌺🌿🍇
Wow.. the knowledge gained from this video was priceless. Thank you for sharing! Very interesting. I’ll be sure to use this method in my own garden 👍🏻
I had an assignment for my class to figure out the soil type in my yard. I was really struggling. bu you video very clearly explained the soil triangle . thank you!
Thank you so much. I learned an easy way to learn about the soil we have in our property. Very informative.
I highly appreciate this presentation. Bravo!!!
@diwakarprasad6203
3 жыл бұрын
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brilliant video. what a great teacher you are!! wish I had someone like you as a teacher when I was in school. thank you.
BEST VIDEO AN EXPLANATION I'VE SEEN ON THIS .
Great explanation. Will be doing this with my students. Thanks for putting this together.
Extremely helpful vid and your explanation was clear and straightforward. Great stuff, thank you. You have another subscriber
Thank you for showing us something that I didn't know was possible.Very interesting and useful.
This is a very good video. I am a visual learner too - and diagrams make me happy. Thanks. I am now a subscriber.
This presentation is really useful, you done it very well. Thanks sir
Robert - excellent explanation of the soil triangle.
This is the greatest video demonstrating soil types. Very easy to understand. Thank you!
@doreenwilliams9857
2 жыл бұрын
I heard of the bottle method but seeing it done made me understand better. Thank you kindly. I click like and subscribed.
Your video is very detailed which I appreciated after watching so many others that weren't but I followed the instructions and set my timer for 15 mins when I went to mark the jar I could not see any difference in the soil. I could clearly see grains of sand in your jar but not mine. I moved in this house about 10 years ago and it's in a new neighborhood in a rural area of Ohio, zone 6a. I had to make all my flower beds myself and the dirt was heavy and compacted with lots of rocks, some bigger than the size of a softball. At 2 separate times I have had dump trucks full of dirt delivered to raise the beds a bit, I have sat for hours picking the smaller rocks out of the beds, through the years I have added bags of top soil and potting soil to the beds and then tilled. Several yrs I added mulch around the flowers to try to cut down on weeds.I have flowers in the beds and some do pretty well but the soil does seem to dry out fast, I water just about every night when it doesn't rain but I assumed it was because it gets mostly sun but possibly sandy soil is the issue. I have time on my hands now to devote to gardening and I'm trying to learn more about soil and that is why I wanted to do the test. I also ordered a soil test kit from amazon to test the soils nutrients so that I can try to add whatever it is that may be lacking. I have been reading articles and watching videos about composting but I'm afraid if I start a compost pile I will be inviting snakes into my yard (serious phobia,lol) So if my issue is sandy soil can anyone suggest an easy way to amend? When I couldn't see the difference on the test jar I thought maybe it just needed more time for everything to settle, what do you think? Or is it possible my soil is made up of mostly sand? It has been 3 hrs since I started the test and the soil is mostly the same throughout the jar except for a very fine line at the top that is a lighter color. I thought maybe I would just try it again after digging some more dirt and adding less dirt to the jar and more water, what do u think? Anyone have any suggestions on what I did wrong? Sorry such a long comment but I thought with more info a greater likelihood of a solution. Thanks!
Thank you very much Mr. Palvis, i subbed, and bookmarked your websites. Please, continue demonstrating your experiments, as I found this very enlightening.
Well done! Simply simple, and precise!
Thank you garden fundamentals. I learn a lot today about different types of soil about regarding the present soil on my garden. God bless. Thanks again. More videos to come. 😍😍
Fantastic video. Very clear and easy to understand. Thanks!
Very useful for my agriculture assignment. Thanks.
Very clear presentation. Thank you!
I said to myself ,that triangle thingy is familiar . And then it hit me! This was one of our science modules discussing about soil types . Our teacher did not really explain to us how to use it , instead , the teacher just read the definition of each type of soil which is okay . But now as I was searching for plastic bricks on youtube your video popped out and here I learned more and got excited about soil and gardening than I was in class sitting and reading a paper full of texts and pictures which made me sleepy. Thank you so much for the help . Please make more of these videos as we have a garden here too!
@KyrenaH
2 жыл бұрын
That's what they did during my earth science class in 7th grade and in my Agriculture class in 9th grade. This experiment would have been a better way to teach this concept than making us memorize a chart.
I'm a Gardener at a National Cemetery so glad I found this channel.
@Gardenfundamentals1
4 жыл бұрын
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This helped so much! Thank you!
Thank you for your good advice about the soil Sir it's clear and easier to understand God bless you.
Sir, thank you very much for a great, simple explanation!!!!
Superb information. So well explained.
It’s extremly helpful video. Thanks a lot
I study this video for HGF225. Thank you for uploading
Thank you, Well presented, educational presentation.
thank you so much for sharing really easy to follow and very helpful
Thank you..I will try it right away !
Pro Tip: Use a strainer to sift down the soil to remove large debris. Use water with a small amount of dish soap added to help create more distinctive separation between the three layers.
@Gardenfundamentals1
Жыл бұрын
good suggestions.
Nice video easy and practical explanation
Well explained. Thank you very much.
What a very helpful video! Thank you!
A useful knowledge presented by a decent man. Thanks
Great video. Clear and concise. I wish I'd known this Soil Triangle approach years ago. It would have prevented a lot of trial and error.
I learned the soil chart use better here than in my college class on soils. ! Thank you
This is great!!! Love your videos!
U have unlocked the secret to soil amending! Thank u
Thank you so much for this vedio. It is very helpful.
Love this, great explanation ❗
This is great, I will try it tomorrow.
Nice description. Thank you so much
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Exactly what I was looking for. Professional, detailed and precise.
Fantastic video.Thank you.
very interesting and informative video being made simple.. I have one concern. why the percentage of sand in the STT went over 40 when by calculations it was less??
Really great explanation sir
I will be doing this today. Thank you.
Really well done, thanks for making
This video was informative... good shit.. thumbs up
Helps so much! Thank you!
it's very simple and useful. Thanks very much. Subscribed your account already
Thanks for making things clear From SUDAN with love🌸
This would be an awesome experiment for an Agriculture or science class.
You are a clear concise teacher Thank you
Thank you. really fun to do this. Our little community garden is silty loam..thank you. Silt: 34.5 % sand, 54% silt, 11.5 % clay
Thank you. I'll be testing my clay soil this weekend!!
Wow wow wow. Thank YOU so much😍
Thanks for the formula. This is exactly what I needed without realizing it.
Thank You! Very Helpful!
From the minute it reacts and the time comes it keeps changing and I can see the separation of each land.
Wow this is a best vid ever🙂 thank you for ur amazing technique
@Gardenfundamentals1
4 жыл бұрын
Glad you liked it!
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Thank you for your sharing information.
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Great stuff! You can improve accuracy by filling the jar with enough epoxy to get above the blend radius at the bottom. JB Weld works well if you thin it with alcohol or lacquer thinner. The manufacturer recommends 1 teaspoon thinner to 2 ounces of mixed epoxy for this purpose.
Excellent video,thank you.
Thank you for sharing. good video.
Cool video, although i think ideally you should use a flat bottomed straight sided jar.
This is too much for me to remember all of this but 8 will need to practice for school. This is best for my term 3🥰🥰🥰
This was so helpful
You are a great teacher!
@Gardenfundamentals1
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
What a great video this is
Excellent.lovin it
Clear and useful. Thanks
thanks for this awesome video.
Thanks a very clear explanation....❤
Well articulated ❤
Interesting video. A much simplified version of how I did the work. Sieves would help in your process. Incidentally, very fine sand and silt partical sizes overlap.
@Gardenfundamentals1
5 жыл бұрын
True - this is an approximate method good enough for gardeners.
Not everyone can teach. I'm doing a class and she did not explain it as clearly as you do. Thank you
Thank you for this extremely easy and informative way to test your soil!
Cool, thank you❣️
Great. Thank you !
well done, sir