Q17. What are the existing indoor or outdoor plant materials (flowers, herbs, vegetables, shrubs, trees, etc.) and landscape beds (if there is any) in your site? Q18. What do you consider are the top two soil-related problem areas in your home soil site?

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What kind of soil conditions do you have
at home?
My Soil-Landscape
Inventory of Existing Features.
Sketch your home or dwelling space area
from a bird's-eye view on your leamer's
notes.
Outline the property lines and all existing
features (where applicable) like the fence,
house, pathways, sitting area, laundry
area, garden area, water source, septic
tank, storm drain, rain water collecting
area, waste area, etc.
Summary of Soil Site.
Locate areas with healthy soils and areas with degraded soils. Look at the ground or
containers and check out your soil. Observe, record notes and make labels on:
• soil locations (indoor, own backyard, adjacent vacant lot, or community garden),
soil containment (ground, raised bed, containers),
soil conditions (no vegetation, sealed, polluted, compacted, waterlogged, etc.), and
types (natural or anthropogenic soils).
Q17. What are the existing indoor or outdoor plant materials (flowers, herbs, vegetables,
shrubs, trees, etc.) and landscape beds (if there is any) in your site?
Q18. What do you consider are the top two soil-related problem areas in your home soil
site?
Transcribed Image Text:What kind of soil conditions do you have at home? My Soil-Landscape Inventory of Existing Features. Sketch your home or dwelling space area from a bird's-eye view on your leamer's notes. Outline the property lines and all existing features (where applicable) like the fence, house, pathways, sitting area, laundry area, garden area, water source, septic tank, storm drain, rain water collecting area, waste area, etc. Summary of Soil Site. Locate areas with healthy soils and areas with degraded soils. Look at the ground or containers and check out your soil. Observe, record notes and make labels on: • soil locations (indoor, own backyard, adjacent vacant lot, or community garden), soil containment (ground, raised bed, containers), soil conditions (no vegetation, sealed, polluted, compacted, waterlogged, etc.), and types (natural or anthropogenic soils). Q17. What are the existing indoor or outdoor plant materials (flowers, herbs, vegetables, shrubs, trees, etc.) and landscape beds (if there is any) in your site? Q18. What do you consider are the top two soil-related problem areas in your home soil site?
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