Standard temperate strategies for improving nutrient poor soil, such as composting, have limited application in such an environment due to rapid leaching.

The aerial roots growing into the mats aided the rain forest trees by providing the nourishment that they did not receive from the nutrient poor soil.

A poisonous spore will grow only in a nutrient soil.

Alaska now has low nutrient soil unable to support bison, mammoths, and horses.

It prefers partial shade and low nutrient soil.

It could be a form of nutrient soil.

The material you describe could be a special loosely packed nutrient soil that combines the ship's food supply with a medium for physical exercise.

It tolerates dry and low nutrient soils.

Such nutrient deficient soils support non-sclerophyllous plant communities elsewhere in the world and did so over most of Australia prior to human arrival.

When practiced repeatedly, or without intervening fallow periods, the nutrient poor soils may be exhausted or eroded to an unproductive state.