SOILS
IN YOUR GARDEN & FLOWERS
We are not all blessed with the best of soils
for gardening. Thank goodness for potting mixes, soil
amendments, fertilizers of all kinds (organic and non-organic in
nature), fillers, top soils, everything needed to have a successful
flower or vegetable garden. Many avid gardeners are now composting
and making their own great soil, but most people don’t have the
space, materials or time. Gardening does seem to hit a large
percentage of us at the moment when seeds and plants become
available. Composting does require planning ahead of planting time
and let’s face it when the first iris or daffodil blooms we are
ready for spring color.
Apartment dwellers can really appreciate potting soils
and mixes after all they don’t even own dirt. Container
gardening puts them in touch with nature and still allows the
"green thumb" person an outlet. Many a rooftop garden is
grown across the world. Herbs, flowers, and vegetables have always
been started in the colder sections of the world on windowsills,
under glass, with plant lights or small greenhouses ready to put
out in the garden as soon as the weather permitted. A packet of
seeds, a little dirt, water and love go a long way to remind us
where we all came from – The Soil.
Whether animal or vegetative we all need certain
substances to insure we develop with health and vigor as long as
possible and soils are no different. All soil is not alike, just
as we are not alike. Man for many reasons has depleted most of the
earth’s soil and we must replace that which has been taken to
ensure as much growing potential for the plants we now place into
the soil.
Farmers know which soils are the
most fertile and which are poor and which cannot be grown
successfully without the additions of fertilizers and other
substances to build the soil up for the next crop. Unfortunately on
this large scale of raising food, alternative measures have been
taken to replace with chemical properties in the soil that are lost
through farming. Through farming and gardening man learned that
soils have an acidic or alkaline base and products can be added to
the soil to make the change to suit our needs and thereby grow more
of a variety of plant life than the originally considered.
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