Home Garden Soil Improvement Blog

This blog will help you keep up with developments in home garden soil improvement by bringing the latest research, technology and field experience in managing soil as a living system.

Your home soil test kit is on this page

If you see an ad for a cheap home soil test kit, don't be fooled - they really don't tell you very much about your soil.

Testing of Organic Gardening Soil now includes Soil Organisms

With an Organic Garden Soil test, the ‘Grass is always Greener’ on Your Own side of the fence. With an Organic Gardening Soil test – You become the expert!

Garden soil testing for soil improvement

Garden soil testing lets you identify any soil problems and develop reliable ways of dealing with them.

Maintaining healthy garden soil is easy

To ensure you have healthy garden soil, begin with balancing structure, nutrients and biology, then use good gardening methods.

Organic soil enhancement

Organic soil enhancement, unlike other methods of soil improvement means treating the soil as a Living System.

Soil balance and the Mikhail System

Soil balance is by far the most important factor in determining the friability and function of soil as a medium for plant growth as defined by the Mikhail system.

About gardening soil

What is gardening soil, what is it comprised of and how does it function to support healthy plant growth?

Improving soil structure is important to garden health

The task of improving soil structure requires more than just digging in a bit of compost.

Plant nutrients in the soil

Maintaining plant nutrients at the proper levels in soil, so that they are readily available to plants as needed is not so straightforward as many fertilizer makers would have it appear.

What are Nutrients?

There are many chemical elements in the soil and applied as fertilizer, but what are nutrients and what are not?