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<blockquote data-quote="1wlimo" data-source="post: 838397" data-attributes="member: 16646"><p>Soil is a chemical melting pot.</p><p></p><p>If you think of models sand is like glass balls in a jar. The water goes in easy and then tips out easy.</p><p></p><p>Peat or high organic soils are like a sponge, they soak up water and some can be sqeased back out.</p><p></p><p>Clay is tiny lattice like particales that have tiny spaces between them. The lattice if you like can jail water and neutrients. </p><p></p><p>So I would assume that the black soils that give plummer_greg so much fun are high in organic matter and clay. So they hold a lot of water, and then there is chemistry in the soil due to ph, or the chemical building blocks of the soil that increase the already high effect of the clay in holding onto the water. The soil acts like a big water magnate if you will.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="1wlimo, post: 838397, member: 16646"] Soil is a chemical melting pot. If you think of models sand is like glass balls in a jar. The water goes in easy and then tips out easy. Peat or high organic soils are like a sponge, they soak up water and some can be sqeased back out. Clay is tiny lattice like particales that have tiny spaces between them. The lattice if you like can jail water and neutrients. So I would assume that the black soils that give plummer_greg so much fun are high in organic matter and clay. So they hold a lot of water, and then there is chemistry in the soil due to ph, or the chemical building blocks of the soil that increase the already high effect of the clay in holding onto the water. The soil acts like a big water magnate if you will. [/QUOTE]
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