Earthworms – The Unseen Workers Of Vegetable Garden Soil

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The next time you venture out into your vegetable garden, you might want to make a quick check of the health of your garden soil. One very easy way to do this is to see how many earthworms you find lurking in the soil.Take a garden fork, plunge it into the soil, wiggle it back and forth, and see if you can find any earthworms wiggling in the soil. You can also use a small shovel or post hole diggers, and take a small sample section of soil. … [Read more...]

How Compost Improves Soil Health

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Adding compost to your garden soil will help to improve just about any soil type - whether it is clay, sand, or silt. There are two things that unhealthy soils lack: microorganisms and organic materials. Truthfully, you need the organic materials in order to attract the microorganisms.Remember the movie Field of Dreams? "Build it and they will come".It is pretty much the same for those beneficial microorganisms. Enrich the soil with … [Read more...]

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