Amending Your Soil
Spring is an excellent time to incorporate soil amendments. Before you start, ensure your garden beds dry out prior to digging. Soil is ready to be worked when a handful of soil crumbles easily in your hand.
Amendments to Improve Drainage/Aeration
Vermiculite
Aerates heavy soils when mixed with peat or compost.
Compost
Can use as topdressing on lawns but ensure if using for growing medium you mix compost: soil at a 1:3 ratio.
Sea soil
100% organic. Fish and forest fines. No smell composted for 2 years. Breaks up clay, decreases amount of watering needed, increases root mass. A container version is available as well for all your planters.
Coco Coir
Improves aeration and drainage. High water retention. Adds organic matter to soil. pH neutral.
Peat Moss
Great to aid in moisture retention but very little nutritional value. Compresses greatly, so ensure you combine peat moss and compost or Soil Booster when amending garden beds.
Amendments to Improve Nutrients
Starting the spring season with a soil rich in nutrients ensures plants have the food they need to perform their very best. The amendments we suggest will slowly release a balanced blend of nutrients over the summer.
Kelp Meal
Condition the soil and increase root mass. Minerals ward off fungal disease.
Bone Meal
Great source of phosphorous and calcium. Phosphorous does not pass-through soil easily, so that’s why you must incorporate near plant roots (not broadcast).
Blood Meal
Excellent source of nitrogen and very high in organic manner, can also help to repel rodents.