It all starts with soil

Soil is the basis for almost every plant we all grow, and it needs to be maintained just like plants do. Make feeding your soil a part of your gardening armoury, just as you have feeding the plants themselves.

Many of us gardeners have in the past been guilty of treating the symptoms of sick plants, and ignoring the causes. If our plants aren’t resilient or if they’re growing poorly, we have tended to add fertilisers or other growth products to the soil or directly to the plants. We have sprayed for fungal diseases, for pests, for viral diseases, never stopping