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  • No, just fingers. You can do it using instruments, but they are slow and expensive.

    If you want ‘accurate’ texture, you have to take the soil, put it in a cup of water, blend it up with a milkshake machine, and then measure it with a hydrometer over 24 hrs. If you’re lucky, you’ll get with in 15% of the actual value for that particular sample. The thing is, though, soils vary drastically even over short distances (or depths).

    This is why I drink.


  • Hand texturing is rolling and molding a bit of soil between your fingers to determine texture, which is a proxy of particle size distribution (e.g. sand, silt, clay percentage). Texture lets you know soil drainage and such.

    You texture each horizon to get an understanding of the profile (whole vertical slice of soil, comprised of several layers).

    Since the soil slowly dries out your hands, they get pretty rough by the end of a day (or 12, 14, or 21, in my case)





  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPtoMemes@lemmy.mlJobs
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    13 hours ago

    Listen here, you thin-skinned shitgoblin. you might like to think you’re clever and can program, but I have it for veritable fact that you’re and underpaid grundle hair braider who is barely making ends meet.






















  • Track_Shovel@slrpnk.netOPto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneConstruct rule
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    2 days ago

    Your views align pretty closely with mine: ignorance isn’t a cardinal sin, but willful ignorance is.

    The fact that you’re taking an educational approach rather than coming after me with a board that has a nail sticking out of it is refreshing for online communities. More people need to just chill.

    On dude: sorry, my age is showing - lexicon needs an update and I haven’t got there yet but I’m working on it