Soil Health

 

A healthy soil is a living medium that can promote ideal conditions for plant growth. Unhealthy and unbalanced soils can promote poor conditions for plant growth and even encourage pests and diseases. A healthy soil is also a very important part of working with nature to produce a healthy living crop.

 

Just as external farming practices such as over using broad spectrum pesticides and synthetic fertilizers can promote an unhealthy environment, so can poor soil management practices.

 

Soils that are over cultivated, low in organic carbon, and over fertilized with high fungicide use can promote conditions of unhealthy dead soils. Healthy soils are alive with worms and soil microbes which can assist in your plants nutrient uptake and water holding capacity making more nutrients available and providing conditions the required less frequent irrigation scheduling.

 

Your soil is part of your environment and a healthy, balanced soil can promote a healthy environment capable of promoting environmental conditions for high plant yields and pest and disease suppression. Hortactix will assess your soil health and develop remedial steps to help you to develop a living soil needed to promote plant health.