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.

Compost: the best solution

Compost is excellent for returning organic matter and nutrients to soil. The best type is your own compost which:

• Is dense in both organic matter and nutrients
• Has recovered the organic matter and nutrients from your wastes while reducing landfill
• Has transformed its organic matter into food for beneficial soil microbes and earthworms
• Has matured so its nutrients are in a form that plants can take up readily
• Is full of soil probiotics (unlike bought compost)

Feed rich homemade compost to your garden soil. This builds long term soil health that is necessary for strong healthy plants.

Traditional 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.

The solution to recycling everyday kitchen scraps as your main waste is Bioverter. Use it to obtain a steady stream of compost rich in diverse nutrients.