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Improving Garden Soil
July 20th, 2009
What perfect ground is the soil in our yards and gardens? Quite simply, soil supplies plants with mineral nutrients, water and anchorage. The main types of soil are clay, sand and silt. The percentage of each to determine if you have sandy clay loam, silt, clay, etc.
There are so many variables that affect the soil of your garden in May have a different soil type than across the street. Some soil properties that are influenced by soil texture include ventilation, drainage, water retention and temperature. For example, sandy soil has excellent ventilation, warms quickly in spring and low water retention capacity. Exactly the opposite is true for the clay. It has poor ventilation, warms up slowly, and a great capacity to retain water. The four main components of soil:
The solid rock or minerals and decaying organic matter, micro-organisms, living or dead plants and other organic liquid soil air amounts of each of these components to determine whether plants grow and thrive in the soil. Perfect or ideal soil is composed of 25% air, 25% water, 40% mineral matter and 10% organic matter. As you know, this never happens! However, what we do to improve our soil will affect our plants. You can re-mineralize your soil by adding minerals or More Texas Greensand. You can increase the organic matter by adding a good organic compost. This also increases the activity of earthworms and the growth of beneficial bacteria. Spray-N-Grow increases the microbial activity that helps keep air and water movement in soil. To learn more about the soil, using Sunleaves Three Way Meter. It allows you to test your soil pH, nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium will give you immediate results. Naturally, the soil needs more work than others, but with a bit of work and good products for organic gardening, you can claim that the soil is perfect! All garden products listed in this article may be purchased from Spray-N-Grow.
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