{"id":25005,"date":"2015-09-28T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T21:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/difference-soil-sand\/"},"modified":"2022-05-23T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T15:31:23","slug":"difference-soil-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/gb\/difference-soil-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference Between Soil and Sand"},"content":{"rendered":"

When was the last time you heard about the Sahara forest?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Although sand is light and easy to work with, thousands of years\u2019 experience in nature has proved conclusively, that good quality uncompacted topsoil, provides the most natural and beneficial rooting environment for trees. That is why, at\u00a0GreenBlue Urban, we recommend\u00a0StrataCells<\/a>\u00a0as offering a best practice\u00a0methodology\u00a0for urban tree planting.\u00a0StrataCells<\/a>\u00a0look after the vital physical soil structure. When loaded with a quality soil, 94% of the volume provided by the structure is occupied by topsoil and\u00a0available\u00a0for the tree, providing and\u00a0nurturing\u00a0a \u2018forest\u00a0floor\u00a0environment\u2019 within the busiest towns and city locations.<\/p>\n

Industry experts generally agree that, so called \u2018compactable\u2019 sand planting mediums tend to be very low in organic content, which necessitates large volumes to achieve minimum nutrient levels. Furthermore, being sand, it can quickly leach those beneficial nutrients, so an ongoing nutrient replenishment program is recommended.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Soil on the other hand generally has a much better mineral and organic balance, which will incorporate sand, but along with silt and clay, with a far higher quantity of organic and nutritional product by volume. Because of this, a smaller volume tree pit can be achieved \u2013 which is an all important consideration in street tree planting, reducing costs, expensive excavations, and also reducing potential damage to existing important underground services.<\/p>\n

GreenBlue Urban\u00a0soil structure systems such as\u00a0StrataCell<\/a>, safeguard that all important root zone, keeping the load off the soil, and keeping the soil open and free draining \u2013 giving trees a real long term future \u2013 for the benefit of generations to come.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When was the last time you heard about the Sahara forest? Although sand is light and easy to work with, thousands of years\u2019 experience in nature has proved conclusively, that good quality uncompacted topsoil, provides the most natural and beneficial rooting environment for trees. That is why, at\u00a0GreenBlue Urban, we recommend\u00a0StrataCells\u00a0as offering a best practice\u00a0methodology\u00a0for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3409,"featured_media":18866,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soil-structure"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe Difference Between Soil and Sand - GreenBlue Urban<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u2018Compactable\u2019 sand planting mediums tend to have very low organic content, which necessitates large volumes to achieve minimum nutrient levels...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/greenblue.com\/gb\/difference-soil-sand\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Difference Between Soil and Sand - 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