Preparing for Spring Planting with Organic Compost
Organic compost is a safe, natural fertilizer
It’s not too early to Think Spring! This is the ideal time to start mapping out that new organic vegetable garden. Building a raised bed and filling it with some of our rich organic compost and topsoil will get your garden off to a productive growing season.
The benefits of compost are many. Adding compost to your soil creates additional humus, making it easier to work and more fertile. It also creates more “pore space” throughout your soil, which means oxygen and water can travel to plant root zones more easily. Compost even helps your soil to hold more water. But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean it will become soggy! In fact, the water will be traveling right to where it’s most needed.
Compost is great to add to your vegetable garden because it feeds and vitalizes microbe populations in the soil. By storing nutrients and releasing them when needed, compost keeps working over time to keep those microbes active and healthy. Did you know compost also supresses disease organisms of many plants?
Visit GreenCycle to select compost, topsoil and mulch for your gardens. You’ll love the results.