What are the difficulties in growing plants in soil?
For plants grown in soil, soil conditioning and fertilizing is crucial for healthy plants and high yields. In the home gardening context, soil conditioning, as generally practiced, is an inexact procedure at best. The home gardener generally doesn’t know the composition of his/her soil. Soil mixtures differ in makeup and organic content, as do soil amendments. There are a plethora of fertilizers on the market that are intended to be added to the soil on a regular basis; most casual gardeners apply fertilizers irregularly, if at all. And the downside of fertilizers is that they kill soil microbes necessary to break down the organic compounds into inorganics that the plant can utilize. Fertilizers also percolate through the soil and contaminate our aquifers and groundwaters. Even if optimal soil chemistry could be concocted and maintained, the soil must also remain porous for oxygen to reach the roots, but not so porous that regular watering will quickly leach away plant nutrients from t
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- I have plants growing outdoors in soil, in a non-hydroponics system. Can I use Gold Range NUTRIENT and if so, is it recommended to use the Gold NUTRIENT feed schedule?
- I have plants growing outdoors in soil, in a non- hydroponics system. Can I use GOLD NUTRIENT and if so, is it recommended to use the GOLD NUTRIENT feed schedule?
- What are the difficulties in growing plants in soil?
