Water Smart soil
A Water Smart soil is a living soil.
In a typical suburban lot, good quality living topsoil contains approximately 90 pounds of earthworms, 240 pounds of fungi, 150 pounds of bacteria, 13 pounds of protozoa and 89 pounds of arthropods and algae. This soil life and its food web cultivate and aerate the soil, improve its structure and increase the availability of water and nutrients for plants. If the organic matter in a growing medium is less than one per cent, all this life will die. Optimum amounts of organic matter in a living growing medium provide a garden soil thatfeels soft and crumbles easily and has few clods and no hard pan, drains well and warms up quickly in the spring and resists erosion and nutrient loss, does not crust after planting and supports high populations of soil organisms,
