How To Make Soil Fertile Naturally

Grow an amazing garden by learning how to make soil fertile naturally. Use these organic and natural methods to make a healthy garden from common dirt and figure out how to enrich poor soil.

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by Harvey Ussery
The result: a colorful productive garden that was built without any tillage.

Grow an amazing garden by learning how to make soil fertile naturally. Use these organic and natural methods to make a healthy garden from common dirt and figure out how to enrich poor soil.

Starting to build a new garden isn’t difficult. Most people begin by going out into their yards with a shovel or garden tiller, digging up the dirt and putting in a few plants. Following the organic and natural methods, add a little mulch or compost, and you’re well on your way to make good soil ph for your homegrown vegetables. But in the long run, the success of your garden depends on making healthy garden soil. The more you can do to keep your soil healthy, the more productive your garden will be and the higher the quality of your crops.

In the last issue, I discussed the value of soil care methods that imitate natural soil communities. These include protecting soil structure, feeding the soil with nutrients from natural and local sources, and increasing the diversity and numbers of the microbes and other organisms that live in the soil.

In this article, I’ll focus on specific ways to achieve these goals. There are many ways to do this, but they all revolve around two basic concepts: For more fertile soil, you need to increase organic matter and mineral availability, and whenever possible, you should avoid tilling the soil and leave its structure undisturbed.

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