Soil is the top layer of the earth. Soils are made from various proportions of sand, silt, clay, and small amounts of organic matter in and on the earth as well as years service past.The natural medium in which to grow plants is indoors. A publication from the EPA said there are more than 70,000 different types of soil out there.
Soil formation occurs when many things happen to interact over a period of up to 1,000 years. Air, water, decaying plant life, rock, animal life, and chemicals all interacting, as well as plant roots and lichens wearing down rocks, creating new soil, and roots and oxygen help to loosen and aerate it.
After several growing seasons using this soil, you will need to amend the soil and add soil to get the nutrient levels back to a suitable level. That is where compost becomes important.
Advantages of Using Soil
Soil formation occurs when many things happen to interact over a period of up to 1,000 years. Air, water, decaying plant life, rock, animal life, and chemicals all interacting, as well as plant roots and lichens wearing down rocks, creating new soil, and roots and oxygen help to loosen and aerate it.
After several growing seasons using this soil, you will need to amend the soil and add soil to get the nutrient levels back to a suitable level. That is where compost becomes important.
Advantages of Using Soil
- When you add a layer of topsoil, all the nutrients in this fresh layer will get absorbed into the root system where it will have the most benefit.
- Adding layers of organic soil to your topsoil starts a chain reaction of beneficial events as the soil starts to fully decompose, encouraging the thatch in your lawn or garden to also start to decompose.
- If you have an uneven lawn then adding topsoil is a wonderful solution, as you can use the added topsoil as an opportunity to even out the surface level of your lawn, while also improving your soil.
- Topsoil is great for use when you are creating a new flower bed or raised bed. It’s also perfect for topdressing weak lawn areas. It can be used as a base for improving existing lawns, or for creating new lawn areas.
- When growing plants in pots, you aren’t going to have the best results using only topsoil, as it doesn’t really provide enough nutrients for container gardening, unless it is mixed with a potting soil medium.
- Adding topsoil to your garden beds is fine, as your plants are able to spread out their roots and reach for more nutrients, but in a pot, especially when several plants are planted together in the same pot, using topsoil isn’t the best choice.
- In the summer, when you are planting bedding plants into containers to move them indoors, it is a better choice to use a potting soil medium, or compost, which will be better suited to the task, as you need more organic matter, more nutrients, and maybe even a slow-release fertilizer for the job.
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