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

Compost is excellent for returning organic matter and nutrients to soil. In particular, use your own homemade 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

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.

In contrast, Bioverter can handle kitchen scraps as your main waste input because it is designed to overcome the limitations of traditional systems. Use it to recycle your everyday kitchen waste and obtain a steady stream of diverse nutrients for your soil.