Content
- So good, everything good !?
- Plants and their demands on the garden soil
- Tips for floor care:
- Fertilizer and how it affects your plants
- Tips & Tricks
Good garden soil is the most important prerequisite for good growth of garden plants
So good, everything good !?
But is it even there, the ideal soil that your favorite plants like, and if so, what would it look like? Purely from the visual and physical point of view, the ideal soil for healthy plant growth should possess these characteristics:
With the manual method you can find out quickly. While a light soil when kneading by hand does not hold together, heavy soils are usually extremely easy, similar to the plasticine, malleable. The particular advantage of light soils is their high sand content, which absorbs a lot of air and helps them to warm up quickly in the spring months. But the storage capacity of this soil for the absorption of nutrients is quite low. Heavy soils usually contain a greater amount of clay or clay, but they are difficult to penetrate moisture. The golden mean for the garden would therefore be medium-heavy soil, in which the shares of air, water, minerals and other nutrients are in the midfield.
Equally important is the proportion of organic matter in the soil that is of particular importance for plant growth and later high yields. A first overview provides a fairly simple test:
The heavier the soil the slower the soil particles settle
- A screw jar is filled to a quarter with garden soil. Now fill up to one centimeter under the edge of the lid with fresh tap water. Screw the lid firmly to the glass, shake vigorously and let stand for about 30 minutes. If the water remains cloudy for a long time, it is a heavy soil. The sand particles from light soils would settle much faster.
Plants and their demands on the garden soil
Tips for floor care:
Fertilizer and how it affects your plants
- Organic fertilizer: is processed by the microorganisms in the soil into nutrients (compost, horse or cow dung, horn shavings, bone meal). Mineral fertilizer: usually works very fast, but only for a short time. Fertilization should be very targeted and only with the required amount to prevent over-fertilization. Organic mineral fertilizer: highly recommended blend, as the nutrients it contains are available to the plants immediately and for a longer time. Liquid fertilizers: mostly water-soluble concentrates, which must also be used very responsibly. No long-term effect, since the intake takes place immediately, therefore from time to time nachdüngen. Long-term fertilizers: Due to their composition, they act in such a way that a gradual but permanent supply of nutrients to the plants can take place.
Tips & Tricks
Organic fertilization of the soil, for example with self-produced humus from the composter, should always have priority, because it is of vital importance for soil fertility.