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Understand Your Soil: Healthy Soil Grows Healthy Plants

A basic understanding of soils allows the specific site. Regular aeration, vertical
gardener to work with natural processes mowing, top dressing with compost or rich
to enhance plant root growth and overall soil, proper fertility management and
vigor.Soil is an amazingly complex, applications of foliar and soil
living ecosystem requiring a balance of biostimulants are all proven techniques
organic, inorganic, living and nonliving for rejuvenating a poor lawn.A properly
components. Recent soil science research balanced soil will support deep,
has demonstrated that the most productive extensive root systems, allowing plants
soils are loaded with a variety of to assimilate all available food and
microbial life; beneficial fungi, moisture. The result is a thick turf
bacteria, yeasts and other microorganisms which resists drought, weeds and
work to decompose organic matter into disease.For basic physical soil analysis,
humus. Humus directly influences both the use a soil probe or large, strong knife
assimilation of nutrients and plant to cut samples at least six inches deep.
resistance to disease, insects, drought Examine for thatch layer thickness,
and other stresses.Physically, soil particle size and distribution,
should be composed of fifty percent compaction and topsoil depth. A minimum
solids and twenty five percent each of of six inches of properly balanced soil
liquid and air, with an organic matter is required to grow a healthy lawn. A
content of three to five percent. This thatch layer thicker than one-half inch
side of Iowa, the "ideal" soil is seldom will act like a sponge to limit the
found in the native habitat. In many penetration of water and nutrients to the
regions of the country, we are required root system.If necessary, consult with a
to amend the soil to provide the optimal qualified landscape professional for help
growth environment.The various with soil testing. Basic chemical soil
fine-particle clays and silts of benefit tests (nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium
greatly from the addition of organic and pH) can be handled through the county
matter. Alkaline clays (high pH) should extension service. For very thorough soil
also be amended with gypsum. The addition analysis with written interpretation and
of organic matter to sandy and gravely recommendations, contact Integrated
soils is also beneficial, increasing Fertility Management at (800)
water retention and providing essential 332-3179.What occurs below ground,
nutrients. Initial expense for organic unseen, largely determines what we see
matter and other amendments pays for the above ground. The knowledge of basic soil
continued beauty and health of the conditions is essential to proper
planting.New lawn installations should cultural decisions and practices. Again,
start with basic soil considerations; healthy soil grows healthy plants.Visit
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