Not Dirt, Soil!

• Beyond Soil Tests
  Though soil tests are useful for identifying nutrient deficiencies as well as soil pH, they do not tell the whole story....
  
  
• Compost Tea
  Compost tea is being touted as the next big thing in gardening, compost tea is reported to increase disease resistance in plants, reduce fertilizer and water needs as well as plant stress, and improve soil structure, aeration, retention of nutrients, and cycling of nutrients into plant-available forms.
  
  
• Organic Fertilizers
  When used in reference to fertilizers, the word organic generally means that the nutrients contained in the product are derived solely from the remains or a by-product of an organism.
  
  
• Iron Chlorosis Signals Problems
  Chlorosis means "becoming green." The term was first applied to a human condition in which the skin took on a greenish hue. Today it is more frequently used to describe plants whose normal color is green, but which have a condition which results in a lack of green color in some leaves.
  
  
• Grow Your Own Nitrogen
  A simple short fact page on how to add nitrogen to your garden soil.
  
  
• Factors Affecting Nutrient Uptake
  The most important thing? Read it!
  
  
• Top 10 Liming Questions
  
Help on raising your soils pH.


• Ten Easy Soil Tests
  Here's a simple way to assess your soil using supplies commonly found around the house.
  
  
• Using Worm Castings Worm castings are a useful additive to any garden.
  
  
• Perfect Soil
• Building Healthy Soil
• Soil by the Month
• Is Your Backyard Eroding?
• Dealing with WET Soil
• Heavy Clay Soil
• Making Soil Out of Leftovers
• Soil Sampling for the Home Gardener
• How to Take a Representative Soil Sample
• Results from the Soil Testing Laboratory
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