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Soil Fertility
First and foremost among these principles is soil fertility. As gardeners, particularly for those of us
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interested in growing fruits, vegetables, or annual flowers, our successes and failures hinge foremost on the fertility of the soil.
The definition of soil fertility is the ability of a soil to support abundant plant growth (the key word here being abundant). There are two components that contribute to this ability of a soil. The first is that soil contains a sufficient quantity of nutrients. The second is that the nutrients soil contains are available for plants to use. Many of us grasp this first component. We understand that soil needs to contain nutrients to feed plants. There are 16 elements essential to the life of plants. Three of these elements, carbon (C), hydrogen (H), and oxygen (O2), are supplied to plants through the atmosphere. The other 13 essential elements, nitrogen (N), phosphorous (P), potassium (K), calcium (Ca), magnesium (Mg), sulfur (S), iron (Fe), manganese (Mn), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), boron (B), and molybdenum (Mo), are taken up by plants from the soil through their roots.
We understand this relationship between plants and soil and so we fertilize, but what we don’t always take into consideration or perhaps just don’t quite appreciate is that soil nutrients need to be in appropriate forms and relative proportions in order to be available for plants to use. This may well explain why some times we achieve great results by adding fertilizer to the garden, while at other times, fertilizing has relatively no effect or even a seemingly negative impact on our plants. There is a reason for this. When it comes to soil, there is always a reason; it’s just a matter of getting to the root of it. Developing an understanding of this discrepancy between nutrient quantity and availability can be a huge step in improving the effects of our gardening techniques. The best way grasp this discrepancy is by learning about some other principles of soil and examining how they influence soil fertility, starting with soil texture. I’ll discuss this in more detail in my next article.
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