Learn how to replicate mother nature’s ways of creating soil fertility.

Organic Matter

• If your soil is hard and clayish, add organic matter to improve drainage.
• If your soil is dry and sandy, add organic matter to retain water.
• The cure for acid soil is to add organic matter such as compost, wood ash or calcium.
• The cure for alkaline soils is to add organic matter in leaves, wood chips, bark, hay or straw.
• The cure for compacted soil is to add organic matter to feed the earthworms and other soil organisms.

Safeguards

• Make your own compost.
• Buy mulch from an organic source.
• Don’t use manure from grazing animals.
• Keep your own animals and collect their poop.
• Grow your own green manures