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Where do I start with learning about the soil in my backyard? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 9 months ago by auzas_1337@lemmy.zip to c/soilscience
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Long story short - I moved from a country where there’s an abundance of black soil to a country with a dry climate and not much black soil. Not only that, I moved from an apartment to a house with plenty of land. I believe strongly that growing my own produce is the way to go, but sadly I lack a lot of skill.

What I want to do is to plant a few plants, bushes and trees to get started with gardening, but I’m not sure whether the types that I want to plant will take well to the soil.

So the first logical step in my mind is to figure out what kind of a soil I’ve got and what it’s well suited for and can I make it work for some things that it might not be ideal for.

That’s why I was super hyped when I found this community, but it looks like people here are mostly posting articles and the discussions are more on the specialist/scientific side, so I hope my question doesn’t stick out as unwanted.

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[–] Lexicon@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fist step is do some searching for soil maps and geologic maps and do some reading.

[–] auzas_1337@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 months ago

Will do, thank you!