Plants are incredibly fertile – grass, dahlias, nettles, parsley, plantain, borage, buttercup, comfrey, dock, shrubs, trees – you get the picture, all plants! Plants are natures soil builders, in part from the bits and pieces of organic matter they drop onto the soil, but mostly from the biology that lives in and around their roots. […]

For soil to be in good health, water and air and roots must be able to easily flow through. When they cannot because of compaction or poor drainage, soil health never quite lands. Compaction is generally an easy fix, and mostly drainage is too – though not always. For gardens on a high water table, […]