Posted by Billy NY on March 15, 2012 at 14:34:12 from (67.248.100.3):
In Reply to: Soil types! posted by JayinNY on March 15, 2012 at 11:50:10:
The fields I have worked in the area surrounding where I live seem to be a composite mixture of sand, gravel, clay so its kind of loamy. You have the wet areas within low or poorly drained places that can be hard to deal with, most farmers will skip those areas or try and drain them better. We also have shale outcrops, that material will scour your plow, and things grow almost as well in it, 'cept near the top where nothing is broken up. Near the marsh areas, there is a gray clay that we called gumbo, I don't like plowing that deep or like to remember where it is and try to leave it in place and just turn the top soil. Our other place 10+ miles east of Amsterdam has fine sand/topsoils. on top, then some layers of clay, then black shale or bed rock. Shale can be a few feet down or 8'-9' down.
This is deep loamy topsoil, this hill was an ag field at one time behind our old barns, but this patch was further built up as a garden, most of our top soils look like that, maybe not as deep.
Sand, gravel, clay, kind of loamy, it does hold moisture and can pack or get hard when real dry, also drains well in most areas:
Most of what is under the top soil is like this material, gravel with some clay, fine to build on, lots of round rock.
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