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SOIL SOLUTIONS
Restore life and good health to dry soil with easy-to-use, microbe-rich, premium-quality rock mineral products
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he hassles of gardening in dry, lifeless soils can seem endless. It can almost put us off gardening all together. Plants struggle to grow and no matter how much we water and fertilise, the garden doesn’t seem to come good. We regularly add products like fertilisers but when the dry weather hits, our gardens still struggle. We can blame the weather but the real reason why the soil is dry is because it is lifeless and that is down to our own gardening practices. People often wonder if adding fertiliser is necessary or beneficial; after all, plants grow in the forest without it. Says Colin Johnson of Earthlife, “In the forest, up to 90 per cent of nutrients taken up by plants are through microbial action. When we use chemical fertilisers, those soil microbes become redundant and our plants then have to rely on us. “Some of our common practices like using gypsum, dolomite and wetting agents can adversely affect the structure of the soil and the beneficial life within it. Also, constant or over-use of these chemical
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