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Plant Them in Your Garden: 6 Plants That Improve Soil Quality
04.06.2024 20:30
Successful gardening is not only about what you harvest, but also about how you care for the soil itself.
Choosing the right plants that can improve the quality of the soil is the key to a healthy and fertile garden.
Anastasia Kovrizhnykh , an expert of the online publication "BelNovosti", an agronomist and landscape designer, told how to act in such a situation.
Here are six plants that will make your garden not only colorful, but also favorable for future plantings.
Legumes (peas, beans, alfalfa)
These plants have a unique ability to fix nitrogen in the soil through symbiosis with bacteria.
By planting them on your site, you naturally enrich the soil with nitrogen, which is essential for plant growth.
Buckwheat
This plant is an excellent "green fertilizer" because its roots help loosen heavy soil and enrich it with phosphorus.
Perennial daisy (lepidium)
This flower helps fight pests such as nematodes, also releasing substances that suppress their vital activity. In addition, they attract beneficial insects and birds, which are natural pest fighters.
Calendula
Another plant that repels nematodes and at the same time decorates the garden with bright fiery flowers, nourishes the soil and makes it more fertile.
White bitterling (colza)
A plant that helps to crowd out weeds and is also considered a valuable source of organic matter for the soil when it is plowed, as green manure.
Phacelia
Not only does it bloom beautifully, but it is also an excellent green manure that attracts bees and other pollinators, and after plowing it adds organic matter to the soil, increasing its fertility.
Planting the listed plants can significantly improve the structure of the soil, increase its fertility and ensure good yields in the future.
This way, the garden will not only be filled with a variety of crops, but also with the health of the soil itself on which it all grows.
Earlier we talked about how to get rid of moss in your garden.
