11.   Soil should be free-draining and well prepared, with plenty of compost - keep plants watered during the first season.

12.   Soil should be rich and moisture retentive, but free-draining.

13.   Straw from the previous wheat crop was chopped and spread before the heavy soil was deep cultivated.

14.   The Red River Valley soil is bone dry after three years of drought.

15.   The soil here is very poor .

16.   The soil is not quite right for the replacement trees.

17.   The soil is quite sandy.

18.   The soil is the colour of brick dust, with only deep dry gullies to show that water ever flowed here.

19.   The soil is very poor in minerals and needs some fertilizer.

20.   The soil was dark and friable between her fingers.