Compost soil is one of the mainstays of natural garden care. Rich in valuable nutrients and rich humus, the black gardener's gold fulfills important tasks. This guide sums up how to use compost soil properly.
Compost is one of the best natural fertilizers
Superlative natural fertilizer
Mature compost soil has all the important nutrients it needs to ensure that vegetables, fruit, flowers, perennials and shrubs thrive. You can make the natural fertilizer yourself or buy it ready-made. How to use compost soil for the organic nutrient supply in ornamental and kitchen gardens:
- Start fertilizing: distribute and rake in over a large area in the entire garden in March
- Strongly consuming plants: apply two liters of compost per square meter in May and July
- Weakly consuming plants: Fertilize with one liter of compost per square meter at the end of May/beginning of June
Wild perennials do not receive compost. The plants react to the concentrated load of nutrients with masty growth and increased susceptibility to diseases and pests. Furthermore, rhododendrons, azaleas and other ericaceous plants have an aversion to compost because the high lime content damages them. Floral starvation artists, such as primroses, cacti and succulents, do not speak well of the natural fertilizer.
Ecological soil improver
Compost soil is always there when garden soil does not meet the high expectations. Before you invest the time and effort into growing vegetables, fruit or ornamental plants, you should improve poor garden soil with compost. That is how it goes:
- Dig two spades deep into sandy or compacted garden soil
- Gather excavated material at the side of the bed or in a wheelbarrow
- Mix in mature, sieved compost
- Fill up the bed pit with the improved substrate
The ratio in which you mix garden soil and compost depends on the design and planting plan as well as the local conditions. In order for Mediterranean sun worshipers to thrive in sandy soil, a proportion of 10 to 30 percent compost soil provides the necessary nutrients. You can give heavily compacted, waterlogged garden soil a structure suitable for plants by adding at least half of the sifted compost.
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In the natural garden, compost soil serves as an environmentally friendly lawn fertilizer. For this purpose, the organic material is sieved so that no unrotted components get in and suffocate the noble grasses. In practice, a dosage of 10 liters of compost for 10 square meters of lawn has proven itself.