Soil Questions Answered for Beginner Vegetable Gardening

We’ll go over the answers of 5 questions REAL beginner gardeners have about their soil health and teach them the basics about what they need to know about their garden soil.

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Soil is a complex ecosystem that make it very hard for vegetable gardeners to understand soil health. And yet, it is the foundation of a healthy garden long term😬 With the number of fertilizers and amendments readily available, it makes it confusing even for beginner and experienced gardeners alike to know what they ACTUALLY need to replenish vegetable garden soil.

This is why we designed this mini-course on Soil Health to empower you to understand the basics of soil health and ecological soil management, and how to amend your soil organically for the long-term health of your vegetable garden 👩🏻‍🌾

In this mini-course you’ll learn…

1️⃣Understand how to keep your soil healthy by improving soil structure
2️⃣Maintain a healthy soil structure long-term to help your vegetable plant’s roots go deep into the soil and allow for a good flow of oxygen and nutrients
3️⃣Learn the very basics of soil chemistry
4️⃣Outline the 12 nutrients that vegetable plants need to grow in a healthy way
5️⃣Know the difference between micronutrients and macronutrients
6️⃣Learn to use natural amendments vs chemical fertilizers to create healthy soils
7️⃣Reduce Heavy Metals in your urban soils
8️⃣Use natural ways to reduce Metals and Metalloids like Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic and Copper which get taken up by plant roots into the tissue and end up in your plate and in your body.

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Here are the 14 essential plant nutrients you should be aware of: Nitrogen (N), Phosphorus (P), Potassium (K), Calcium (Ca), Magnesium (Mg), Sulfur (S), Iron (Fe), Boron (B), Copper (Cu), Zinc (Zn), Manganese (Mn), Chlorine (Cl), Molybdenum (Mo), and Carbon (C)

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This video is a collaborative effort with some of our beginner gardeners from Growville (name changed for privacy reasons), where we help answer some of their questions while teaching them the basics about what they need to know about their garden soil.

We’ll answer questions like soil preparation, whether or not you should mix your compost into the soil, what nutrients your plants need, and fertilizers you can use to nourish your soil.

Have other questions about your vegetable garden soil? Be sure to drop them in the comments below. Gardening is a shared experience that we believe brings people together and fosters a sense of community. In fact, this is exactly where the idea for DirtMagicians came about. To build a community around growing food.

If fostering friendships and community sounds interesting to you, come join Jolene’s Garden Circle on Companion Planting, that’s happening on the 14th of June 2023 @4 PM PT.

Jolene (@oursanctuarygarden) is a gardening educator with over 136,000 followers on Instagram. She’s a Master Gardener in Training who’s not only passionate about teaching others but also dedicated to honing her own gardening skills.

⬇️ Join Jolene’s Garden Circle Here ⬇️
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/jolenes-garden-circle-on-pest-management-tickets-636849623367

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