Category Archives: Soil

Soil Fertility Lessons for Gardeners: A Primer for Gardeners

Best Practices for Building and Maintaining Healthy Soil for Optimal Plant Growth By Kirsten Ann Conrad, Extension Agent Arlington County VA Lesson 1:  What Kind of Soil do you Have and What Do Your Plants Need? Every gardener at some point in their lives and their practice of producing healthy lawn, vegetables, trees, fruit, flowers…

Soil Health – The Foundation of Turf & Garden Performance

“Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with the microbes. If we do this, our plants will thrive, we’ll grow nutritious, healthy food, and our soil conditions will get better each year. This is what is meant by the adage ”Feed…