Healthy Soil => Healthy Plants => Healthy Food & Flowers!
Healthy soil prevents lots of garden issues, including pests, disease, poor harvests or sad looking flowers.

These are some things YOU can do NOW:

1) Start Composting Plant Material!
This including any "Spring clean up" of fallen leaves or last years stems. This starts building soil with your yard's local microbes, that creates your Ecosystem! Kitchen scraps, such as veggie scraps, egg shells are great, but no meat or dairy!
Bonus: Composting reduces organic material that fills up landfills! ♻️
TIP: If you are composting food scraps, keep it in enclosed bin to prevent unwanted visitors.

2) Keep Soil Covered!
Uncovered soil can be washed away by a sudden storm, blown away by high winds, or soil microbes damaged by high heat or low temperatures. Soil can be protected by mulching, with wood mulch, or "green mulch" such as low growing plants, cut plant material.
Bonus: Protected soil also conserves water! 💧
TIP: Mulching Depth is key, about 2 inches (5cm), not too deep, unless you want to smother weeds.

3) Avoid Chemicals!
Broad application of chemicals, like weed killers & bug killers, can kill Soil Microbes too! Any use of chemicals can cause "unintended consequences", to soil, plants, animals, pets, children, & YOU! Soil microbes are essential to healthy soil. They build resiliency to disease, improving soil structure, recycling soil nutrients, increase organic matter, & even help conserve water.
Bonus: This reduces the need to buy expensive fertilizers to amend poor soil! 💸
TIP: Any use of chemicals should be taken seriously! ☠ Read the labels carefully, follow all the directions, & wear proper Personal Protection Equipment! (such as gloves, safety glasses, boots).
​
​It all starts with the Soil!