Soil Texture by Hand
Wet a pinch, roll it, and see what it does. It takes ten minutes to learn and it tells you more about a field than most soil tests.
- Course
- Reading a Field
- Length
- 6 lessons · 4 hours
The lesson.
Wet a pinch, roll it, and see what it does. It takes ten minutes to learn and it tells you more about a field than most soil tests.
One lesson from Reading a Field. The full course is 6 lessons · 4 hours and costs £129.00.
Video
Filmed on the farm.
Part of
Reading a Field
Free at Ploughing On
One course a year.
Notes
Downloadable.
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How to look at a field and know something about it. Soil, drainage, aspect, weeds, and what the prev…
What people actually ask.
The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.
No. Every course starts from the assumption that you have never held a soil auger, because most people have not.
It is not. It is what six years of expensive mistakes taught us, written down so you can make cheaper ones.
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