Question

Your assignment is to perform a visual soil and inspection of your garden area, or an area of your choosing if you do not have a garden/ landscape to inspect. As part of this inspection you will gather information and draw conclusions about the soil. The four parts of this inspection are as follows:

1. Visually inspect the soil’s color, and note the types and condition of the plants currently growing in the area.

2. Perform a texture analysis utilizing the feel method and following the texture flowchart .

3. Pour water on the soil and observe how the water penetrates or runs off.

4. Dig a small hole; approximately shovel wide and shovel deep, to determine workability and expected ease of root growth.

Answer 1

1. soil of my garden is black.

this type of soil is rich in calcium, potassium, and magnesium but has poor nitrogen content.

plants-like tobacco, oilseeds, jowar, ragi, and maize.

3.  the values of parameters of infiltration models varies from soil to soil.

the place where the soil is compacted, the infiltration rate is low and runoff is high.

and where the soil is little plowed the infiltration rate is higher there.

4.the depth of the root of plants in my garden is not much deep.

Soil depth can greatly influence the types of plants that can grow in them. Deeper soils generally can provide more water and nutrients to plants than more shallow soils