Category: Building Healthy Soil

Plants need phosphorus during all stages of their growth, especially during the early stages of growth, and flowering and fruiting.

Soil solarization is a cheap and easy method of disinfecting garden soil. Find out how to solarize your soil and the conditions that make it most effective.

Yes, coco peat is highly suitable to be used as mulch in a vegetable garden. Coco peat mulch is most useful to retain moisture and nutrients in your soil.

Soil salinity is not a commonly discussed topic when it comes to vegetable gardening but it is something that we should be aware of as gardeners. 

Knowing exactly what you can add into your compost bin will help you make high-quality compost quickly and without attracting unwanted visitors.

Compost helps the soil by improving and maintaining soil quality due to its unique characteristics, making it a cheap and easily accessible soil amendment and source of plant nutrients.

Crop rotation is an organic gardening practice that can increase productivity by increasing the health of the soil and plants.

Using companion planting in your vegetable garden will help you overcome the many challenges of organic vegetable gardening, including pest and disease control

Encouraging a natural balance between soil organisms is not only essential to build up healthy soil, but it can also make gardening amazingly easy because soil biodiversity will do most of the work for you. Each soil organism performs specific functions that contributes to soil health.

Mulching can save you time, money, and a lot of effort by creating a vegetable garden that needs less watering and weeding, with minimal nutrient loss.