DEAR GARDENERS: May 2016 Working With Your Soil (1803 hits)
DEAR GARDENERS
WORKING WITH YOUR SOIL
May Issue 2016
written by MIISRAEL
Dear Gardeners:
May flowers should be blooming! If you haven't seen your blooms yet it could be due to your ground's soil. Bad soil can stunt growth, and even deter growing your plants to dying away. Treating soil takes a few steps, and even treatments to improve your soil's quality. What steps can you take? Well there are ways and I have a few suggestions:
Test your soil quality: You can visit your garden store to buy a soil testing kit. This tells you basically what your soil make require. These test usually measures Ph balances in the soil and often they give you the measure of the normal balance needed. Tests kit prices varies and sometime that are useless unless you know some what is required. If you know that your soil is bad then don't waste your money.
Fertilizing Your Soil:
Now for most bad soils fertilizing is the best resolution. Fertilizers aid in improving the soil, however just be aware fertilizing requires time and sometimes several applications. You can purchase manure and other soil treated fertilizers at your garden center most at an affordable price. Follow instructions and work it well with your existing soil. Yearly fertilizing may be necessary and required it your soil texture is not well. Often sand in soils can be helpful for moisture retention, but deters growth in many blooming plants. Improvising your plants to soil related types may cause to plant those tolerant to sand and soil.
Relocating Your Garden Spot:
If your soil texture hasn't improved over sometime consider moving your garden to another spot. I know a man with a vegetable garden who moved his location to find out it was much better. After two tries his latest move shows measurable improvement. Often, lighting and soil has a good spot, and varies for growing.
So, you have to do the work, till the soil and enjoy the growth. Gardeners you know just what I mean! It's part of the pleasures of having growing hands.
Now that you have a few tips, you might have some your can share with another gardener. Gardeners always a willing to try if they are seriously wanting growth results. It's a task that not very easy, but the finished work of working with soils can prove rewarding. The harvest! I have a lot of catch up work this spring! What did I do to get behind? Write letters to gardeners maybe?
