Healthy soil is necessary for a healthy garden. Here are six ways to supercharge your garden to give your plants the nutrients they need for success.

Looking to grow a beautiful luscious garden? One of the most important aspects of a healthy garden is healthy soil. Plants need nutrients to grow and thrive.

Here are six ways to supercharge your soil to give your plants the best possible chance of success.

1.Chicken Manure

Organic fertilizer like chicken manure contains nutrients like nitrogen, potassium, phosphate, nitrogen, and calcium, all essential for a plant's growth.

Chicken manure helps to improve the soils aeration and structure.

Pro Tip: Fresh manure must be aged before use. The best way to age is through compositing. However, you’ll want to keep your manure composts separate from your other composts.

2.Wood Ash

Wood ash is full of nutrients such as potassium and phosphorus. It’s helpful for flowering and fruiting plants. It’s best to use harder woods like beech and oak rather than softwoods.

Wood ash is also useful in composting, due to its alkaline nature it can be used to lower acidity levels making it a better environment for worms. With this in mind, don’t use wood ash around plants that need acid soil to thrive.

3.Compost Tea

Compost tea is a liquid made by microorganisms from compost. Compost tea is beneficial in making sure plants are healthy and can better resist diseases and pests.

It also improves the soil's health and its water retention.

4.Blood meal

Blood meal is made from slaughter-house blood. It’s most often the blood from cows and is dried into a powder form.

It contains hearty nutrients for soil. Blood meal has many benefits, including supplying plants with nitrogen, helping with healthy foliage growth, and since it’s organic, it’s a better option than chemical fertilizers.

5.Bone meal

Bone meal, like blood meal, comes from the slaughter-house and is made from ground animal bones.

It promotes healthy soil by giving plants phosphorus and calcium and aids with healthy root development.

6.Guano Fertilizer

Guano is the excrement of bats.

It’s an amazing fertilizer because it is rich in essential nutrients for plant growth such as nitrogen, phosphate, potassium, and more.

Happy Gardening!

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