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We join UF\/ IFAS Leon County Extension agent Mark Tancig as he digs holes around Tallahassee. We’re looking at the native soils of Tallahassee, and how they affect plant growth in our yards. An ancient coastline divides the Red Hills (the uplands) from sandier soils that were once ocean bottom. How do air and water move through these soils and into plant roots?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

I\u2019m driving to spots around Leon County in search of native species. Sounds familiar, doesn\u2019t it? I could begin any number of blog posts that way; I\u2019m looking for this rare plant or that endemic bird or salamander. Not so today, however. My companion has a shovel, but the things we\u2019re looking for are not buried in the soil- they are the soils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Soil types have names, just like plant and animal species, and areas where they\u2019re known to be found. Our area\u2019s ecology is as much connected to Orangeburg, Kershaw, and Ortega as it is to wood storks<\/a>, gopher tortoises<\/a>, or live oaks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen you think of an ecosystem as a whole,\u201d says Mark Tancig, \u201cand this could be an ecosystem in the National Forest, or this could be the ecosystem that makes up your lawn and garden, it includes the animals, it includes the plants. But something that we don\u2019t think about is the soil.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark is the Horticulture Extension Agent at UF\/ IFAS Leon County Extension<\/a>. People come to him with questions about plants. Maybe their trees aren\u2019t producing fruit, or become diseased. Is the insect on this pepper plant here to eat it, or to help it? Any number of factors affect how a shrub or a wildflower grows, but the health of a plant starts in the soil where it spreads its roots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we\u2019re going to go dig some holes, and see what \u201cspecies\u201d of soil are underneath us in different parts of the county.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Click here to read full blog post on the WFSU Ecology Blog<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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