Every gardener and vegetable grower dreams of fertile soil where they can create a flower garden or build beds.
But with each season the fertile layer becomes thinner, and pests settle inside the soil and diseases develop.
Fortunately, the situation can be corrected - we have prepared for you several obvious, but effective methods.
Let us turn to the recommendations of the expert of the online publication Belnovosti and agronomist Anastasia Kovrizhnykh.
How to improve soil fertility
Here are some recommendations.
- Add compost to the soil. Start with 3 buckets per square meter and dig up the garden. A great way to restore the thinning soil layer.
- Green manure. They can be sown between the main crops or directly on the bed in spring or autumn under digging.
- Crop rotation. Different plants receive nutrients from different layers of soil. Therefore, an experienced gardener follows rotation.
As for green manure, the best options for the soil may be peas, beans and alfalfa.