How to Restore the Fertile Soil Layer: 4 Problems and Solutions

The fertile composition of the soil tends to become thinner over time, or other unpleasant changes occur with the soil.

We will tell you about the four main problems that gardeners have to face due to agricultural errors.

The fertile soil layer has thinned out

The problem will not take long to appear if the same plants grow in the same place for a long time, and even with a superficial root system. In this case, saving on fertilizers will affect the future harvest.

You can add compost during digging at the rate of 3 buckets per 1 square meter, and sow green manure (lupine, mustard, rapeseed, peas, beans or alfalfa).

The soil crumbles into dust

This can happen when growing nutritionally demanding crops and completely neglecting feeding and fertilizers. Here you should add 2-3 buckets of compost per 1 sq. m. with subsequent digging to a depth of 10 cm. You also need to add mulch. Straw, compost, sawdust, freshly mown grass will do.

Very dense soil

Even if it is difficult to stick a shovel into the ground, in the fall you need to plow or dig up the soil to a depth of 10 cm. In winter, the clods will freeze and will probably become loose by spring. But if there is clay on the site, you will have to add sand when digging - 1 bucket per 1 sq. m. The soil around the plantings will have to be mulched with rotted compost and try to create comfortable conditions for the worms to live in.

Diseases and pests

To get rid of eggs, larvae and wintering pests at once, you need to buy special preparations. Some developments can act only on larvae and caterpillars, while others on beetle eggs and mites.

Treatment with an EM preparation solution is carried out against pathogenic organisms. Some developments suppress the development of fungal diseases in the soil and can be compatible with insecticides and biopreparations.

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• 8 February 2023

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