3 DIY Soil Tests You Can Do in Under 24 Hours

What's up guys. Today we are testing our soil three ways to figure out what type of soil we have. Sandy, silty, clay, or loamy. All right, stay tuned. Guys, we're here in the micro green garden talking about soil today. So we've gone over how to pH your soil. We've gone over how to find out how many nutrients are in your soil. But what we haven't talked about is what type of soil you have. Now, when we talk about type of soil, we're really talking about the interplay of three different types of soil. You have your silty soil, your clay soil, and your sandy soil. Now, if you're like me, your soil is going to heavily skew towards one of these three types. So that's fine. And that's why we're testing it. We need to get closer towards an ideal type of soil called loam. Now loam is 40% silt, 40% sand, and 20% clay. So we're going to talk about three different ways to do that. We have the ribbon test, the jar test, and the squeeze test. Let's kick it off with the squeeze test. Okay. Our soil is settled using the jar method, the most accurate of the three tests. All we need to do to figure out the percentage of each of the three types of soil we have is to find out how tall this total height of soil is, and then how tall each of the soil sections are. So your clay's on the top, the silt's in the middle, and sand is on the bottom. Now the very simple equation is to measure the height of each and divide it into the total. And that gives you your percentage.