Category Archives: soil quality

Water Smart soil

By lushmountainApril 5, 2013soil quality

A Water Smart soil is a living soil. In a typical suburban lot, good quality living topsoil contains approximately 90 pounds of earthworms, 240 pounds of fungi, 150 pounds of bacteria, 13 pounds of protozoa and 89 pounds of arthropods and algae. This soil life and its food web cultivate and aerate the soil, improve […]

Soil Preparation and Maintenance

By lushmountainFebruary 22, 2013soil quality

Soil Preparation and Maintenance The soil is the basic raw material of the gardener’s art. It should never be dismissed as a mere collection of mineral particles used to anchor roots or, worse still, as “dirt.” It is much more than that.