Testing your soil by hand

To diagnose your soil with your own hand you must follow these simple steps.  First take a handful of moist soil, move it around between your fingers.  If it is sticky and changes your hand colors is is clay based, if it is gritty and falls apart it is sandy and if it is slippery and contains small particles it is silt.  At the end of this testing if you ball it up and try to form something and it sticks it is clay, if it just falls apart it is sand.