Fine textured soils (clays, sandy clays and silty clays ... can increase PAW by increasing porosity. Soil depth and rock fragment content also affect water holding capacity because bedrock ...

making it difficult to get water to plant roots. Yet in winter, it can be constantly wet and waterlogging is common. It is hard to dig at most times of the year Silty soil - is made up of fine ...

Soils are composed of a mixture of sand, silt, clay and organic matter ... Cations on the soil's exchange sites serve as a source of resupply for those in soil water which were removed by plant roots ...