Keep soil healthy for constant gardening joy

Feed your soil to keep it healthy. This is the secret of good gardening. Your best results come from feeding the soil, not your plants.

Healthy soil

Healthy soil is the foundation of a healthy garden. It’s rich in organic matter, nutrients and teeming with life, including earthworms.

However, growing plants strip healthy soil of nutrients and organic matter. Soil health will decline if these soil resources aren’t replenished.

Adding fertilisers to replace nutrients is an incomplete solution, as organic matter in the soil will continue to dwindle.

Mulching

Mulching is recommended in gardening. It provides many benefits including controlling weeds, conserving water and insulating the ground. Mulches which break down within a year return a small amount of nutrients and organic matter to soil.

Best with compost

Making and using your own compost is excellent in returning organic matter and nutrients to soil:

• Compost is dense in both organic matter and nutrients
• Both organic matter and nutrients have been recovered from your wastes while reducing landfill
• The organic matter has been transformed into food for beneficial soil microbes and earthworms
• The nutrients after compost has matured, are in a form that plants can take up readily
• A steady source of more and varied nutrients come from composting everyday kitchen waste

Traditional systems like compost bins and tumblers can turn garden waste into compost, but adding kitchen scraps to garden waste is problematic if you don’t sort and limit the amounts of scraps. It is better to use Bioverter for handling kitchen scraps as your main waste input because it is designed to overcome the limitations of traditional systems.