http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/home-garden-soil-blog.html Keeping you up to date with home garden soil improvement technology and research. en-us home garden Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:27:53 GMT Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:27:53 GMT home-garden-soil-improvement.com http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/home-soil-test-kit.html 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. Fri, 30 May 2008 04:16:01 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/organic-gardening-soil.html 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! Fri, 30 May 2008 03:29:34 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/garden-soil-testing.html Garden soil testing lets you identify any soil problems and develop reliable ways of dealing with them. Fri, 09 May 2008 01:44:46 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/healthy-garden-soil.html To ensure you have healthy garden soil, begin with balancing structure, nutrients and biology, then use good gardening methods. Fri, 09 May 2008 01:05:08 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/organic-soil-enhancement.html Organic soil enhancement, unlike other methods of soil improvement means treating the soil as a Living System. Fri, 09 May 2008 00:45:58 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/soil-balance.html 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. Fri, 09 May 2008 00:26:46 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/gardening-soil.html What is gardening soil, what is it comprised of and how does it function to support healthy plant growth? Fri, 09 May 2008 00:12:01 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/soil-structure.html The task of improving soil structure requires more than just digging in a bit of compost. Thu, 08 May 2008 04:58:26 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/plant-nutrients.html 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. Thu, 08 May 2008 04:36:02 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/what-are-nutrients.html There are many chemical elements in the soil and applied as fertilizer, but what are nutrients and what are not? Thu, 08 May 2008 03:59:45 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/balanced-plant-nutrition.html Balanced plant nutrition is only one part of the soil balance relationship, but it can be quite difficult to achieve. Thu, 08 May 2008 03:28:13 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/toxic-elements.html Some important toxic elements are Fluorine and heavy metals like Lead and Cadmium, but the one most people have heard of is Aluminium. Thu, 08 May 2008 00:55:29 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/fertilizer-numbers.html The fertilizer numbers you see when you pick up a bag from your local nurseryman also known as the fertilizer analysis, or NPK tell you what plant nutrients it will provide. Thu, 08 May 2008 00:03:46 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/lime-gypsum.html The actions of lime gypsum and dolimite are important to the way we use them to improve garden soil Wed, 07 May 2008 03:02:01 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/organic-soil.html An Ezine for anyone interested in organic soil improvement and sustainable gardening. Thu, 01 May 2008 05:05:55 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/what-is-soil.html What is soil and what makes it function as a medium for plant growth? There are several factors, but lets start with its texture. Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:07:55 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/clay-soil-gardening.html Many people who struggle with clay soil gardening wish they could just dig the whole lot up and replace it with "good soil". Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:56:39 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/soil-water.html The way soil water moves and how it affects the soil and plant growth are important principles to understand. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:45:33 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/soil-texture.html Soil texture relates to the 'feel' of the soil - loamy, sandy, heavy, light and so on. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:45:00 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/soil-problems.html Soil problems were once thought to be largely fixed characters that you could do little about. Now we know better. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:44:26 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/soil-organisms.html This is an important concept for understanding how soil organisms live and how soil biology is managed. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:43:21 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/report-reading.html Without skill in report reading, a soil test can be just a confusing jumble of numbers Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:42:07 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/organic-fertilizer.html Opinions on organic fertilizer vary from: "Chemical fertilizer poisons the Land" to "All you need is keep control costs". So what is the truth? Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:40:23 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/nutrients-in-fertilizer.html The nutrients in fertilizer need to be worked out before we can see how much and what type of fertilizer to use. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:39:50 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/kelp-humic-acid.html Kelp, humic acid and fish emulsion are not fertilizer. Each stimulates the activity of a different group of microbes in the soil. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:38:46 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/ghost-town.html We often hear people say their soil is dead, but it is actually more like a ghost town than devoid of all life. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:37:10 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/cation-exchange.html Cation exchange is not hard to understand, but the technical jargon used can make it seem like an 'experts only' concept. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:34:19 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/calcium-magnesium.html The Calcium Magnesium ratio has implications for both soil structure and animal health. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:33:47 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/5-steps.html 5 steps can reliably lead you to improve any soil according to the Mikhail System. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:33:15 GMT http://www.home-garden-soil-improvement.com/soil-ecology.html Soil ecology is a relatively new field, especially in terms of its practical application to soil improvement. Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:17:41 GMT