Soil minerals form the basis of soil. They are produced from rocks (parent material) through the processes of weathering and natural erosion. Water, wind, temperature change, gravity, chemical interaction, living organisms and pressure differences all help break down parent material.

Black soils are derivatives of trap lava and are spread mostly across interior Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, and Madhya Pradesh on the Deccan lava plateau and the Malwa Plateau, where there is both moderate rainfall and underlying basaltic rock.

The particles that make up soil are categorized into three groups by size – sand, silt, and clay. Sand particles are the largest and clay particles the smallest. Most soils are a combination of the three. The relative percentages of sand, silt, and clay are what give soil its texture.

The 5 Different Types Of Soil

• Sandy Soil. Sandy soil is light, warm, and dry with a low nutrient count.
• Clay Soil. Clay weighs more than sand, making it a heavy soil that benefits from high nutrients.
• Peat Soil. Peat soil is very rarely found in natural gardens.
• Silt Soil.
• Loamy Soil.

But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.” Jesus told them another parable: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

The parable of the sower is an ‘allegory’ about the Kingdom of God. The man represents God and the seed is His message. Just as a planted seed starts to grow, the word of God starts to deepen and grow within a person.

The soil in Bible is represented as something that gives people strength and richness in life. In the meaning of richness, people who dream about soil are likely to experience good things in life because they deserve to. The spiritual meaning of soil is hidden in symbols that explain the structure of the soil.

And then there is the blue or blue-gray mucky soil that smells bad and can have a sewer- like odor. Often this condition is the result of poorly aerated subsoil. Organic matter doesn’t have enough oxygen to completely breakdown the materials. These incompletely digested soils are not healthy for plants.