Hello my Sandy friends Kevin here from Epic Gardening and today as you might already have

guessed we are talking about sandy soil how do you improve, but first of course we need to talk about what exactly is

sandy soil, what makes a soil sandy.

So sandy soil has tiny fine particles formed due usually to weathering of rock something like that.

Now this type of soil can be hard to grow in because number one it drains really well so it's not holding on to a lot of

water and number two it does not usually contain a ton of organic matter. The large

particles contained in the soil don't really have a lot of pockets to hold

onto water and nutrients, and thus it's pretty easy for fertilizer or water to just flow right

through it or be lost through evaporation. And so how do we know if we have

sandy soil? Well, it's pretty easy to figure out there's a gritty texture to it so you can kind of just pick it up and feel it

but you can perform what is called the squeeze test and in this case what you're

looking for is you grab a wet amount of soil and then you roll it into the shape of a

sausage in your hand and if your soil is sandy you won't even be able to get it to

that point. It's just going to start to crumble and fall apart and And so that's how you know you have

sandy soil. In contrast, if you have a clay or a more loamy sandy soil, it's

going to stick together much better. In fact, if you have clay soil, it's going to clean together so much it

won't really even be able to break apart, so that's also bad. But sandy soil just

won't really form together at all.

And that's how you know you have it.

And so how do we actually fix it?

Well, one of the main problems is Sandy's soil

does not have enough organic matter.

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