Selecting Topsoil
Evaluating Topsoil Quality
Table 1
Table 2
What is Topsoil?
Deciding When to Use Topsoil
— Soil Fertility Note 14 —
Topsoil
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Serving North Carolina growers since 1940
July 1995
Questions or comments should be directed to the Soil Testing Section of the NCDA&CS Agronomic Division.
Information on soil testing, nematode assay, plant/waste/solution analyses,
and field services is also available from the Division.
Optimizing Water Movement
Table 1. Typical soil test results from bulk and bagged topsoil.
Table 2. Desired levels of soil nutrients.
M. Ray Tucker
J. Kent Messick
Catherine Stokes
