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Mill Bay, British Columbia

My wife and I ammended and tilled the patch yesterday, and today after a short rainfall, the soil looked so great that I decided to do another soil structure/texture test using the old soil and water in a jar, shake the crap out of it and let it settle. Then using the triangle calculation method, we came up with the fact that our soil is 11% clay, 62% silt and 27% sand which puts us in the middle of the loam soil range.

Just wondering if many of you do this test, and what your averages are for clay, silt and sand.

Take the test and post results here....info at;

http://www.taunton.com/finegardening/pages/g00164.asp

5/6/2007 7:44:31 PM

Puyallup, WA

Everytime I do this.....all it does is make me feel bad! There are a lot of large pumpkins that are grown in less than optimum soil.

5/8/2007 12:13:20 AM

Mill Bay, British Columbia

Thanks Stan, your soil must be optimum or the consistant results you obtain have to be luck....I think not!!

Come on guys and gals, post some results on this.....Stan has too high an OM content for a real result but I am still interested in other observations and test results.

Glenn

5/8/2007 2:48:01 AM

Little-TON - Colorado

OK Glenn, Ill try it tonight, been wanting too anywise.....should I pick the worms out first? I dont want any floaters.......lol

5/8/2007 9:35:13 AM

Marion,IN

Glenn, great post. It was a fun learning experience. As far as the results, lets just say I hope I messed up. I'm going to re-do the test.

Mark

5/9/2007 12:41:57 PM