If perfect garden soil is what you want
read on ...
How do you know whether you have perfect garden soil? and more importantly how you can get it?
Firstly, you cannot manufacture perfect soil.
You can ensure the right conditions exist to provide the best chance of developing the best garden soil.
You first need to know;
- what perfect soil is
- what the best soil looks like
- what the perfect soil for your garden plants contains
- and how the best garden soil develops
Yes ... keen to know. Well here we go ...
Perfect soil for growing vegetables, and most other plants is free draining, yet holds moisture, is porous but firm in structure, is crumbly with good aggregate structure, is rich in life (worms, bugs, fungi and bacteria), has a fresh smell and allows good rooting, is rich in organic matter and a darker shade of brown in colour.
  The best soil has a crumbly aggregate tilth on the surface and a firm crumbly sub-structure that is good for rooting and plant growth.
The perfect soil contains a good mixture of sand, silt and clay to provide a loamy texture with plenty of organic matter, loads of earthworms and other invertebrates. It is the organic component that is most important as you can have excellent clay soils, excellent loam soils and excellent sandy loam soils. Organic compounds are the stabilisers of soils; holding together sands, but separating sticky clay/ slimy silt particles into well developed aggregate structures. How do such soils develop? Well with some time, worms, fungi, bacteria, rooting, together your patience and assistance through adding organic matter, not over-cultivating and without compacting your soil.
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