Gardeners can be extremely dedicated enthusiasts when it comes to producing the best quality plants, fruit and vegetables and using the best quality top soil. Top soil is rarely overlooked considering all the time that is spent on other areas of garden improvement – in this respect, many gardeners are really amazing people. Of all the activities that people in the UK get up to, gardening is high up in the list of popularity. One small thing can make gardening quite intolerable though and that is the cost of gardening.
Improving top soil need not cost the earth, just like everything else gardening, quality top soil can be achieved at little cost to the resourceful gardener. There is little point therefore in spending great amounts of money when some simple cost saving top soil improving tips will do the job. The first thing that every serious gardener must do to ensure that their top soil is of the highest quality is to ensure that a compost heap is built. No matter what standard of gardener you class yourself to be, building a compost heap is perhaps the single most important thing that a gardener can do to make their top soil better.
The benefit of a compost heap is that it will decay matter of organic origin much more quickly enabling the substance to release its nutrients and be ready for the gardener to mix it into their top soil. This additional nutrient and organic matter content is crucial to the performance of good top soil. Plant nutrients can be found in good top soil and in compost that can be added to it, enabling vegetation to survive and thrive. The balance between good water retention and good drainage is important when it comes to top soil – organic matter in compost can help with getting this balance right. Heavy raining periods can wash nutrients out of the soil, so good organic matter can help prevent this.
Only organic matter should be used in the first place, and this is essential to ensure that the compost is of good quality. There is information readily available on what to include in good compost to make good top soil.
