Soil Properties of Successful Gardens - The Hardwick Gazette

Soil Properties of Successful Gardens - The Hardwick Gazette

MONTPELIER – What makes good soil and what does “good” mean? Most of us would likely answer that good soil is full of readily available nutrients for our vegetables and flowers to uptake and robustly grow. The best soil for plant growth contains about 50% solid material and 50% pore space. courtesy photo There is, of course, more to good soil than nutrients. Otherwise, why would we bother to grow plants in soil at all?Soil, being an ecosystem, i…