Many gardeners have a misconception that there’s a secret to productive and bountiful vegetables and fruits and it all has to do with a certain magical combination of pesticides and fertilizers. Now year after year various community gardeners, nursery staff, garden and seed catalogs claim to offer the latest products promising a cure for all the gardening woes. If you have ever indulged in these products, you would see that they are just a concoction of various mixes, similar ingredients that you are probably using just labeled with some fancy new package. With organic gardening, we have not seen a lot of changes over the years therefore many companies simply repackage similar ingredients just to make them look very interesting. The best thing about your plants is that they do not care about any fancy packages or even exotic ingredients available from some exotic land. Your plants will thrive and live healthily in soil that is healthy and rich in nutrients. And how will that happen? You will have to make a conscious effort to make your soil healthy and this can be done by adding a tad of compost, lots of love along with plenty of patience. You read right; you can now repair your soil that is damaged however it would definitely require some amount of patience because it does not just heal overnight. The good news is in this article we will discuss certain tricks and practices that you could follow that will help you to make the soil of your garden healthier. If you are currently looking out for a remedy to the desert soil that you currently have, then keep reading to learn all about healing the soil.
Adding organic and compost matter
There is just one thing that you could do in order to enhance your soil and that is by simply adding compost. If you are currently dealing with desert soil that is nutrient depleted there is hope for you to begin vegetable gardening by mixing compost in the right way and right proportion. Oftentimes we have seen the soils in the desert suffering from various problems that include increased pH and compaction. This makes it extremely difficult for it to support plants that are non-native, including common vegetables. If you utilize compost, you can alleviate these problems and various other problems too. When you add compost, you introduce certain microorganisms that are beneficial to your soil and will help the soil to kickstart on a higher gear. If you deciding to start a garden, I recommend that you should replace at least 50% of the desert native soil with organic compost.
Finally, I would like to encourage you to keep away from utilizing synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. They can eventually kill the food web in your soil. Try and take the organic route as much as possible. Replacing pesticides that have increased toxic chemicals with certain organic alternatives is the best way to go. That’s all for this article and I do hope that you have received certain helpful insights to enhance your sandy or desert-like soil. Enjoy your gardening!