How f’d is my soil
I was pretty sure I had a lot of clay in my soil, but just not sure exactly how much. Well I decided to do the jar test to see. Now, this jar was only filled to about 30% with soil and the rest was water. I mixed it very well and left it to settle 2 days ago. This is the result. I don’t see ANY separation of sand to silt to clay(it may appear that the left side has separation, but I promise that is just reflections). And as you can see, it looks like I’ve filled the jar almost to the top with soil, but I haven’t. The soil particles are still suspended in the water after 48 hours…I guess I have 100% clay soil. I even made another jar where I added dish soap to see if it would help the particles aggregate faster. It looks the same as this one. I don’t even know how to start helping my soil. I guess I’ll just mulch year after year and hope it starts getting better.
I was pretty sure I had a lot of clay in my soil, but just not sure exactly how much. Well I decided to do the jar test to see. Now, this jar was only filled to about 30% with soil and the rest was water. I mixed it very well and left it to settle 2 days ago. This is the result. I don’t see ANY separation of sand to silt to clay(it may appear that the left side has separation, but I promise that is just reflections). And as you can see, it looks like I’ve filled the jar almost to the top with soil, but I haven’t. The soil particles are still suspended in the water after 48 hours…I guess I have 100% clay soil. I even made another jar where I added dish soap to see if it would help the particles aggregate faster. It looks the same as this one. I don’t even know how to start helping my soil. I guess I’ll just mulch year after year and hope it starts getting better.