Growing Peas - The Importance Of A Healthy Organic Soil Structure
by John Yazo
Peas are an easy crop to grow in your organic garden, with a healthy soil structure. Achieving and maintaining the optimal soil conditions prior and during the growth of your crop is very important. Soils that are easy to compact are not the best for peas, it is essential that the soil in your garden be well aerated, a healthy organic soil structure that drains well, retains moisture along with nutrients for the plants to benefit from is the ideal conditions for having a thriving crop of peas.
A soil with a ph of around 6.5 is the optimal level. Peas are a legumes crop, and with the proper soil conditions, this crop has the ability of nitrogen fixation. Having this ability, peas are a producer of nitrogen and are a great crop to plant in soils that have been depleted of there nitrogen by other crops, like corn that is a high feeder of nitrogen.
Keeping your gardens soil structure healthy is very important when growing an organic garden. To achieve this you need to feed the soil the organic matter it needs to fuel the soil food web, natural humate soil conditioners are also ideal to keep the biology of the soil strong and healthy.
Take care of your gardens soil with natural organic methods and the soil will take care of your crops by supplying them with the nutrients they need to produce a yielding crop. Garden with nature and not against it, and you can grow a garden that is healthy for both you and the environment.
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