Owners of their own garden have a very limited resource. In particular, the soil, which is used for growing plants and regularly dug up, is depleted over time. In addition, over time, humus, that is, the useful part of the earth, is washed out.
Without humus it is difficult to imagine growing plants that bring a lot of harvest. Humus contains a certain microflora, which tells the plants the right elements and allows them to develop normally.
Of course, here it is necessary to note the fact of using a modern garden as a fact not natural.
In nature, the situation is completely different, the space of forests and fields is much larger and there are more global and mutually compensating processes that simply cannot exist in your small garden.
Therefore, you should accept the unnaturalness of these conditions and understand how to work with these conditions..
For example, in nature, two centimeters of chernozem (the most optimal type of soil) appear in 200 years.
As it is not difficult to understand, in a separate area and during your period of actual ownership of this area, it is simply not possible to wait for the natural formation of the useful soil layer. Therefore, additional efforts should be made to preserve the normal quality of the land that you use.
Soil study
Initially, it is necessary to understand the soil as an organism that exists and can be in different conditions.
If this organism is healthy, then the plants feel great, if the soil is not in the best condition, then the plants practically do not give anything and do not grow. Therefore, first you need to be able to diagnose the soil.
By the way, it is the productivity of your plants that is one of the main signs of soil health. When you see a significant decrease in yield, even with all the methods of plant care: weeding, watering and the rest.
Fertility uplift
In fact, this process will only require you to timely add beneficial elements to the soil and use some additional tools.
Moreover, it will take not so much financial cost, and it will take a little time too.
We are talking only about what kind of fertilizer option you will use.:
- compost - by the way, it is better to use exactly the one that you have prepared yourself;
- rotten compost;
- humus.
With each option you get soil bacteria, which in turn will provide you with a layer of soil useful for plants. Next come the earthworms.
It is the earthworms that will make for you a huge amount of work that you cannot get in other the most accessible and simple ways. The first plus of earthworms is eating them of harmful components that are in the ground. The second plus is the digestion of all absorbed into useful humus.
At the same time with earthworms you do not need additional application of mineral and other fertilizers. Various chemicals should generally be discarded, as they significantly reduce the quality of the earth. Over time, the introduction of additional chemicals depletes the earth, and the plants become less resistant to external influences.
Additional actions to improve the soil:
- the use of medicinal plants;
- use of californian worms;
- heat treatment of the soil in small areas;
- organic as a fertilizer - compost, humus, manure;
- mixed sowing and crop rotation;
- use of sideratov.
In addition, the soil should be periodically allowed to rest, that is, not sown with various plants, but left for 1-2 seasons so that the soil can once again be filled with useful elements. By the way, during the rest period you can introduce various preventive measures that will allow the soil to become suitable for growing plants again.
