Soil provides base for plants to grow and provides basic support to them.
Soil acts as a binding material to plant roots.
It holds roots so tightly that plant remains unharmed during excessive wind or rain.
Soil supplies water necessary for plants and maintain turgidity.
Soil acts as a reservoir for all nutrients required by the plants.
it is a store house for seeds and other vegetative propagation plant material.
Soil is a breeding laboratory for useful microorganisms necessary for activities like decomposition, nitrogen fixation and overpowering disease causing agents of plants.
plants need soil to live because soil provide nutrients and a network of water and air to the plants roots. Plants can't grow without soil, but they will need structure's to support them.
