3 Ways to Maintain Healthy Soil for Plant Growth in the Summer Months
The quality of our soil is incredibly important to our yards, gardens, and landscaping. Healthy soil means plants that grow. For inspired gardeners, there is no alternative. Strong, quality soil is an absolute necessity and having it, your soil will work tirelessly to help yield all sorts of vegetables, flowers, and plant growth.
Look at our food systems. Where do all plants come from? Of course, the soil. These plants are produced to feed us and the animals that we cultivate for meat. In fact, all food production relies heavily on soil quality and the preservation of soil is also important to protecting our natural ecosystem.
From a homeowner’s perspective, healthy soil is filled with essential nutrients, water, oxygen, and is ready to support plant roots. There are many types of soil out there, each comprising of organisms that help to make and improve soil structure, recycling essential nutrients, and controlling weeds, pests, and diseases. To maintain the healthiest soil for your home, here are 3 ways to get it done.
Limit chemical exposure
If at all possible, use no chemicals. Any sort of chemical exposure can create an imbalance in one’s soil. The long-term effects can be positive in the sense that some chemicals will kill pests. That said, these same chemicals can absolutely destroy the organisms that live in your soil, essential for cultivating those amazing plants, flowers, and veggies.
Rotating crops every year
An easy approach to maintaining a healthy balance of nutrients in soil is to rotate crops every year. Each crop will take certain nutrients from the soil. These nutrients may or may not be easy to replace. As you rotate crops around though, you’re giving the soil a chance to recover. Nutrients can be replenished. This won’t always be the case in all types of soil but a crop rotation gives you your best bet towards having a healthy garden. Variety breeds growth!
Using compost
Lastly – and this might seem like an obvious path to healthy soil – is to use compost. This brings with it nutrients that soil may not be able to replace on its own. In some cases, compost is necessary for healthy soil, benefiting plant growth and the living organisms in your garden. You can make your own compost in the most eco-friendly way by bringing together leaves, dead plants, and vegetable waste from the kitchen. A little bit of compost in soil goes a long way in elevating and strengthening your garden’s output.
These are just a few of the more basic techniques used by everyday landscape artists and gardeners to deliver excellent plant growth in the summer. All this effort is to supply the soil with what it needs to give your plants water, nutrients, and the proper environment for them to grow, grow, and grow some more! Things like sunlight aren’t necessary able to be controlled but the quality of your soil, to some degree, can be. Invest in compost, crop rotation, and no chemical exposure.
Do you need topsoil delivery in Toronto or the GTA? Call Core Mini Bins today. All summer long, we’ve been helping homeowners achieve amazing gardens. Homes and businesses ready to beautify their landscaping, give us a call. Your plants will thank you, in color and in yield!
