Posts Tagged ‘composting’

One of the earliest lessons to learn when taking up vegetable gardening is to understand the soil you are using. The garden of the property I lived in before my current residence, the soil was so hard and dry that it took a mattock to dig a hole large enough to plant something. When I did manage to bore a hole and plant something, more often than not, the plant would die due to not being able to expand and trenghten its roots. The soil was pure clay and if it wasn’t clay I was trying to break through it was bits of house where the builders had simply dumped their rubbish and thrown down top soil to cover their mess. Clay soil withholds moisture and the roots of the young seedlings do not have the strength to break down the soil and fully establish themselves. Read the rest of this entry »