A sponge illustrates how water moves through soil and the forces that control its movement. Terms covered include infiltration, matric potential, gravitational water, saturation, drainage, field capacity, wilting point, and runoff.
Thanks so much for this video! This is the most straightforward & easy-to-understand explanation I have come across yet! This will certainly help save a lot of our customers from killing their new lawns & $$ on their water bills! Thanks again!
Great video, my UCANR Master Gardeners class was assigned to view this for homework (this week is all about soil). Professor Flynn is like a scientific Mr. Rogers :-)
In case your question was not answered, infiltration rate as expressed in cm/hr. Soil water holding capacity is the amount of water "held" in the soil after water has drained leaving air spaces (pores). Sands have the lowest water holding capacity and clay's have the most. However, clay's do not have the most plant available water since clays have a great affinity for water.
