Soil amendments are made by adding fertilizer to the soil but there are different types of fertilizers. There is bulky organic fertilizer, such as cow manure, bat guano, bone meal, organic compost and green manure crops. And then there is also chemical fertilizer which is also referred to as inorganic fertilizer and is made up with different formulations to suit […]

Garden Soil and Soil Amendments One of the central to the concept of gardening is that you should know the types of soil in your garden, as well as how plants grow in the soil. Plants grow by extracting nutrients, minerals and other elements, not only from the soil, but also from the air and water, […]

Inorganic soil amendments are used to supplement the organic matter that is already in the soil. It is meant to improve the texture of clay soil, and help sandy soil by increasing the sandy soil’s capacity to retain water and nutrients. In a nutshell it is meant to make clay soil and sandy soil more like loam soil in texture and […]

Keeping soil healthy is an essential part of gardening. The materials, i.e. the types of fertilizer, most often used in most areas where cultivation takes place, to maintain and improve soil fertility may be classified as follows: The natural, organic fertilizer types in the shape of manures. These are usually the relatively bulky fertilizer types, like animal […]

Making compost presents the gardener with an economic and easy way to recycle disease-free garden, kitchen and general waste. Nowadays there are many ways in which organic compost can be made. Commercially available you get compost equipment like compost drums, compost turners, compost aerators, compost makers, compost containers, compost barrels, and compost tumblers. However, since […]

Organic Matter Organic gardening is the practice of using only organic matter in your garden. Organic matter is quite diverse, it is the living and dead particles found in organic soil. Living particles: – these are the organisms like earthworms, insects and micro organisms such as bacteria and fungi found in organic soil. All living […]

Testing the Soil Type I have often found myself looking at gardening magazines and watching gardening shows and wondering: Why is my garden not performing as well as the gardening show says or as the gardening magazines claims it will be doing? The picture that I get from my garden does not even remotely resemble […]

Part of performing a garden soil type test is to classify your garden soil as sandy, loamy, or clay. You have already calculated the percentages of each layer of sediment of your garden soil as describe in our page on garden soil testing. Now you can easily determine what type of garden soil you have by transferring the results onto the soil triangle. This […]