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Backyard
Sustainability Gardens Hosta Descriptions
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Healthy
soil feeds healthy plants!
The first line of defense a plant has against disease and predators is its
own good health. Healthy plants don’t succumb to disease or insects as
easily as sick plants. Healthy plants come from healthy soil. When we run
into plants with problems in the garden, most often the cause is a
deficient soil. Soil
is a living system that needs tending just like any garden. In many areas,
particularly new developments, soil has been stripped, stockpiled, and re-spread without
regard to re-establishing the graduated layers of soil and sub-soil and
communities of micro-organisms which took years to establish . As a consequence, the soil is essentially dead and can’t
offer much to plants that grow in it. Only the toughest, most
opportunistic plants (weeds) survive, and often overcome the crops, flowers or
shrubs that we want to thrive. So building a healthy soil and
understanding that this is the crux of good gardening is the place to
start. To that end, adding copious amounts of good compost as a top dress
should be an annual or semi-annual activity both to rehabilitate tired soil and
keep healthy soil healthy. Commercial non-organic (chemical based)
fertilizers interfere with and destroy soil micro-organisms, making the
plants dependent on chemical intervention. If you don't have a compost
pile start one today! If you can't consider using certified organic
compost like the Winterwood Farm compost we bring to Seven Arrows by the
trailer load.
We offer premium quality Shellfish (lobster & crab only) Compost from Winterwood Farm both in bagged form and in bulk, picked up here at the farm or delivered to you. Delivered Compost Price: 2 - yard minimum @$60 per yard with a $50 delivery charge.
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