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How to Improve Your Garden's Soil Quality

Friday, August 26

Soil for your garden

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Blue Lobelia

Trilliums

Foam flower

Daisy

Coneflowers

Gardening requires a lot of labor, patience, and time. The first thing you should check before gardening is whether the soil in your garden is suitable for the plants you plan to grow. Plants need air, water, and minerals to survive and flourish. The soil is equally vital in its growth and nourishment. The quantity of each content present in the soil varies from region to region. Some soils have a high content of sand, and some regions have loamy soil.

Organic gardening

Many minerals are present in the soil, and appropriate quantities of minerals contribute to the growth of plants. Similarly, each handful of soil contains many living organisms that make the soil rich and healthy for plants to thrive in. The soil is ruined when lots of pesticides and other chemicals are used in the garden, which results in killing most of the microorganisms from the soil. Due to this reason, many people have moved to organic gardening. Organic gardening can help maintain soil as pesticides, or harmful chemicals are not used in this gardening. Optimal use of nature is brought into practice in organic gardening as microbial nutrients replace harmful chemicals.

If the garden soil is not good enough for plants, then you can mix soil of the right texture and type needed by your plants. The type of soil can be determined by getting a test conducted in a laboratory. The result would inform you about alkalinity, and the content of clay, sand, and other minerals present, which would further help determine the soil contents required for the type of plant you intend to grow in your garden. People consider that loamy soil would be more prosperous than clay soil; however, it could be vice versa. Therefore, a test could give accurate results on the type of soil you have and what measures you can take to make it rich and appropriate for plants.

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