this is what your soil profile should look like.......

[trioderob]

[trioderob]

and here is another look at what the natural top soil looks like - this soil is 100% natural

want to guess where it comes from and why its the worlds best soil ?

[Moose]

and here is another look at what the natural top soil looks like - this soil is 100% natural

want to guess where it comes from and why its the worlds best soil ?

You've been digging in BS Man about Palms' yard

[trioderob]

thousands of years from now his soil WILL be like that from the decay of weeds, but I am talking about today.

what country has a soil profile that tops the big island and Cuba or any other place for that matter ?

here is another photo of what the top soil looks like right from nature

Edited February 20, 2013 by trioderob

[trioderob]

[sonoranfans]

Is this where christopher walken is buried? I really did prefer christopher, triode...

[Moose]

Looks like the soil from Chittenango, New York in the valley. Grows the best vegetables I've ever eaten.

[trioderob]

Germany has it in a few spots

here is a real real pretty cross section:

[trioderob]

want to see more cross sections or is this stuff boring ?

[PANGEA EXPRESS]

want to see more cross sections or is this stuff boring ?

i dig it

[trioderob]

here is the scoop:

http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/HIS241/Notes/Geography/BlackEarth.html

Edited February 20, 2013 by trioderob

[Stevetoad]

I keep my top soil on top of my bottom soil.

[Keith N Tampa (ex SoJax)]

Here's what mine looks like:

This is from the Powerpoint files the Fire ants use to train themselves how to build sand piles atop my sand pile.

Just think of this image when you see the advertisment about the "rich Florida soil" being responsible for the high quality of the Orange Juice. Of course, they don't talk about the fire ants tilling the soil in that ad. Marketers!

[DoomsDave]

Hmm.

There are many places in the world that have great soil. There's soil like that black earth in Minnesota, and across the prairies at least before the Dust Bowl.

Even California has some good soils, like the riverbottom in San Bernardino. Sit nekkid on it, and your butt'll root in . . . .

[Got Palms]

I think my soil is fantastic, So Cal Clay! lots of nutrients when broken down with mulch.

[Oliver K.]

Germany has it in a few spots

here is a real real pretty cross section:

What does this good soil help (for growing palms), when it gets frozen for some weeks every year?

Regards from Germany,

Oliver

[rozpalm]

I don't know if I buy into the idea that my soil needs to look like that at all. Doesn't it really depend on what you are trying to grow? I can understand if I were trying to grow food crops, that soil would probably be great but if you planted many of my Caribbean palms in that stuff they'd probably be dead in less than a year.

[trioderob]

why would they be dead ???

[JEFF IN MODESTO]

Duhhh.... Looks like the soil in our own San Joaquin valley!

Ever wonder why the big valley grows most of the US's fruit and veggies?

Jeff