Knowing your soil type is very important, as it determines which plants will thrive and look beautiful all season long.

Soil is a natural resource that can be categorized into different soil types, each with distinct characteristics that provide growing benefits and limitations. Identifying the type of soil you require for a project is paramount to support the healthy growth of plant life. Soil can be categorized into sand, clay, silt, peat, chalk and loam types of soil based on the dominating size of the particles within a soil.

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Soil amendments are any material added to a soil to improve its physical properties, be it density, texture, pH level or drainage.

For any seed to grow and bloom properly, the soil must be properly balanced to obtain consistent results. The most important factors are water retention, drainage, aeration and density.

The goal is to provide the optimum growing medium for anything with a root structure and amending the existing soil to match whatever is being planted is extremely important.