Soil Science

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How do I neutralize the acidity of used coffee grounds for use as fertilizer?

I've recently tried mixing the used coffee grounds in baking soda, and I'm seeing a very visible chemical reaction. I haven't tried putting it in the ground yet though.

Giant store of global soil carbon revealed (Soil Inorganic Carbon) ( phys.org )

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7918

Virtual Munsell Color Wheel ( www.andrewwerth.com )

Our Breathing Earth: A Review of Soil Respiration Science - Eos ( eos.org )

How to gather inspiration with soil ( buttondown.email )

EU waters down pollution targets and rethinks pesticide plans in bid to quell farmers’ protests – as it happened ( www.theguardian.com )

Summary of the day [6 Febuary 2024]...

How to identify alluvial soils with three clues ( buttondown.email )

French govt under fire for putting pesticide phase-out on hold ( phys.org )

The protestes are not all done yet, some farmers Union are against this government's decision and are still fighting for better revenues among other things.

Soil based fuel cell ( interestingengineering.com )

Link to article https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3631410

Describing soil teaches us to accept uncertainty ( buttondown.email )

Where do I start with learning about the soil in my backyard?

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....

Large sensory analysis of vegetables from conventional, organic and no-till practices ( arxiv.org )

A nice, moist clay loam ( slrpnk.net )

triangle ( slrpnk.net )

Curran et al. 2023 - Soil stockpile age does not impact vegetation establishment in a cold, arid natural gas field ( www.biorxiv.org )

This topic is pretty hotly debated. One of the issues is that time is a huge factor in getting meaningful data, at least in a mining sphere, where stockpile are huge and soil is stored for a long time.

plant diversity stabilizes soil temperature ( phys.org )

Study shows that inoculating soil with mycorrhizal fungi can increase plant yield by by up to 40% ( phys.org )

Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air ( www.ucdavis.edu )

Who needs a gym? ( slrpnk.net )

Slickenslides in a French soil ( slrpnk.net )

In soils with very high 2:1 clay contents, the soils expand and contract as they are wetted and dried. This creates shear faces called slickenslides, like the one shown above. Essentially they clay expands so much it's forced to shear somehow, and this is the resulting shear plane....