GREATsoils: Rating soil assessment methods

Field demonstration trials were run as part of a three-year AHDB Horticulture GREATsoils project CP 107b (April 2015 – March 2018).

This factsheet specifies soil assessment methods that were chosen as best for the various horticultural production systems.

Growers from different horticultural production systems selected, trialled and compared a range of soil assessment methods in their own fields. 

In this factsheet you will find: 

• Soil infiltration rates 
• Simple compaction test
• Earthworm counts for field vegetables 
• Laboratory soil health testing for protected leafy salads

This information was last updated in 2018