Soil and the Ten Most Helpful Things About It

Learning what makes soil can be useful for gardeners even if most people find it a particularly dry subject Below are five things you possibly don’t already know about soil.

1. About twenty-five percent of the world’s soil is damaged regularly by farming practices such as excessive tilling.

Secondly, about 10 tonnes of living organisms can be found in 1 acre of soil.

3. About 10 percent of all the land on Earth is used to grow the food that feed the cattle that then feeds people.

Fourthly, It’s incredible to think that plants’ roots search through the soil to find new areas of moisture at a rate of one half an inch per day.

5. During the period of a year, earthworms can eat, digest and recycle an astonishing thirty-six tons of soil which helps make it more rich.

Six: In one acre of open grassland, there is the potential for at least one million earthworms living in the soil.

7. Just 1 spadeful of soil could contain more species of living things than the Amazon rain forest contains in total above ground.

8. Some wildlife that likes to bury nuts and seeds into soil to keep them safe, are actually helping soil get richer as the items decompose over time.

9. If one was to count all of the people in the entire world, there would still be more clay particles in one handful of clay.

Tenth, soil is made up from minerals, air, water and organic matter at 45 percent, 25 percent, 25 percent and 5 percent respectively.

Soil is clearly a massive subject and to know everything about it could take you some time. However, most people don’t have that much spare time to learn about soil, and so this list points out the most interesting.