How To Easily Make Your Own Potting Soil
If you love to grow vegetables by container gardening you may want to make your own potting soil instead of the store bought brands. Making your own potting soil might seem like much more work than just tearing open a bag, but there are a few advantages of making it yourself. Continue »
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Earthworms – The Unseen Workers Of Vegetable Garden Soil
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
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How To Measure The Drainage Of Your Soil
If you have a new garden area in mind, there are several tasks you should perform before sowing that first seed. The first task is to take soil samples, and perform a soil test. The second task should be to measure the drainage of the proposed area. Continue »
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Compost Can Improve Your Soil’s Health
August 15, 2009 by Tee
Filed under Composting
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” Continue »
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Understanding Soil Nutrients – Soil pH
Today’s article on soil pH will conclude the Understanding Soil Nutrients Series. These articles on soil nutrients will cover a brief summary of each main soil nutrient. If you missed the previous entries to this series, here they are:
Understanding Soil Nutrients – Nitrogen
Understanding Soil Nutrients – Phosphorus
Understanding Soil Nutrients – Potassium
Although pH is not a soil nutrient, I felt it was very important to bring it up during the soil nutrient discussions. pH levels can have a very important role in the availability of nutrients to plants. Continue »
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Understanding Soil Nutrients – Potassium
This is the third entry for the Understanding Soil Nutrients Series. Today we will focus our attention on a very important soil nutrient – potassium. If you missed the first and second entries to this series, here they are:
Understanding Soil Nutrients – Nitrogen
Understanding Soil Nutrients – Phosphorus
Why Potassium is Important To Your Garden
Potassium (K) is generally called potash when used in forms for a soil fertilizer. The name comes from the collection of wood ash in metal pots when the soil benefits of this material were first recognized centuries ago. Hence, the name “potash” came to be. Continue »
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Understanding Soil Nutrients – Phosphorus
This is the second entry for the Understanding Soil Nutrients Series. Today we will focus our attention on a very important soil nutrient – phosphorus. If you missed the first entry to this series, here it is:
Understanding Soil Nutrients – Nitrogen
Why Is Phosphorus Important To My Garden Plants?
Plants need phosphorous for strong root growth, fruit, stem and seed development, disease resistance, and general plant vigor. Phosphorous doesn’t move in the soil as easily as nitrogen does so you don’t have to add it as frequently. Continue »
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Understanding Soil Nutrients – Nitrogen
This is Part One of a four part series titled, Understanding Soil Nutrients. Each day this week will bring a new article on soil nutrients, with Thursday being the final article.
The first part of the Understanding Soil Nutrients series will be on nitrogen. As vegetable gardeners, nitrogen can play a key factor in whether our vegetables grow successfully or are doomed for failure. Too much nitrogen can mean big, bushy plants that have brilliant foliage, but little or no fruit. Not enough nitrogen causes browning foliage, and plants with stunted growth.
In most cases there is a fine line between too much and not enough nitrogen levels. Having your soil analyzed by a soil test is very important in determining how much nitrogen content is in your soil. The test results will inform you whether you need to add nitrogen, or dilute nitrogen levels depending out what you intend to grow. Continue »
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