reviewed by Christina Lopez
Good soil is an important requirement for getting a beautiful lawn, a flower pot, or even having a garden with beautiful blossoming flowers to watch. But even though we start rout with the best of soils, they start to lose their nutrients leading to a loss of effectiveness over time. That is when soil amendments and conditioners come in.
This list of products is not only for a soil which has lost its nutrients, if:
Then this list of soil improvement products is a great choice for you as Each of them is meant to solve a particular soil problem you may have.
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An advantage to this product is that this problem solves the common problems encountered when watering your lawn. Water tends to converge at some places allowing only the surface of your soil to be wet. The lack of water flow or little flow affects soil growth as it doesn't get just enough. Hard soil is also a problem when it comes to grassroots, and if the roots can't breathe, the grass itself can't grow or grow slowly.
This soil loosener and aerator is a great solution to all your soil problems. It loosens the soil by breaking down compact soils, allowing the downward flow of water and vertical drainage. This way, water penetrates the soil faster. Not only does this product loosen the soil, but it also conditions it, softening up your soil to give the roots of your plants room to breathe, thereby promoting grass growth. The simple lawn solutions work well with any turfgrass fertilizers to improve your grass growth.
This simple lawn solution is manufactured in the United States. It's made to be eco-friendly as its constituents are non-toxic and biodegradable. It is a family-owned business having more than 25 years of experience in the turf and agriculture industry. That, coupled with the great feedback, makes me well assured that this is a great solution for your field issues.
Easy Lawn Products is obviously non-toxic, biodegradable. Therefore shouldn't worry about harm to your pets and kids as this product is completely safe. The product performs well for all forms of vegetation and soil. It increases environmental quality while growing the color of the grass.
The simple lawn solutions comes in a 32-ounce bottle, and it can be used for up to a 32000 square feet large field. It is perfect for all grass types like the Fescue, Kentucky bluegrass, Florida Palmetto, Centipede, Zoysia, Bermuda, Ryegrass, Bahia, Buffalo, and St. Augustine.
this product is made by the same manufacturer as the Simple lawn solutions-Liquid soil loosener above. It boasts quality and dependability when it comes to enhancing your plant's nutrient uptake. Not just by me, but for farmers all over the world.
The simple lawn solutions is the top choice for all gardeners, botanists, and farmers alike. It is made from concentrated liquid carbon gotten from the highest quality humane source. It enhances your fertilizer program to help in efficient nutrient uptake and speedy plant growth.
The simple grow solutions is good for all plant types such as St. Augustine, Fescue, Bermuda, Zoysia, Centipede, Buffalo, Bahia, Florida Palmetto, Ryegrass & Kentucky Bluegrass.
This simple plant growth solutions is also great for your garden. You can apply it on your indoor plants, tomato plants, vegetables, garden landscape, fruits, citrus, seedling, hardy trees, and new sods, and expect healthy growth from them.
The simple lawn solutions has three container choices:
To use the simple plant growth solutions, simply mix four ounces of the liquid in a gallon of water. This can be used for a field spanning up to 1000 square feet. Its best applied using a backpack sprayer, a spray tank, a hose-end sprayer, or the pump-up sprayer. Apply once every two weeks for the best performance.
this product is the perfect soil amendment for carbon-depleted soils. If you start to notice that your plant growth has become severely depleted or not even depleted but isn't growing fast as it has been. Then this soil nutrient rejuvenator is the best option for you.
The Andersons Humic DG Organic Soil Amendment solves your garden issues by increasing its carbon contents. Carbon, as you know, is a key factor in having a rich soil filled with nutrients as, without it, the soil becomes mere dirt. This organic carbon, as you know, it also creates a physically cohesive soil by protecting the soil organic matter, making soil loss due to wind or water reduced greatly.
The Andersons Humic DG Organic Soil Amendment supports all microbial activities in the soil by feeding them by providing carbon- the key food source chain. Thus enriching it to improve seed germination, root vigor, root mass, and overall plant health.
The Andersons Humic DG Organic Soil has a low dust and moisture content to easily blend with other components such as urea-based fertilizers. Its granules are easy to spread, and that absorption into the soil is even. As rain falls or due to irrigation, each granule disperses into thousands of particles, facilitating absorption and incorporating the product into the soil.
After applying the Andersons Humic DG Organic Soil Amendment, water your field with at least 0.3 inches of water, the product self-incorporates into the coarse-textured soil. Cold weather or water of lower than 45 degrees (Fahrenheit) will significantly reduce the particle dispersion rate of the granules, so make sure the water you're choosing to wet your field is not cold.
All details on how to use the Andersons Humic DG Organic Soil Amendment is included in its pack.
Jobe's Organics Garden Lime Soil Amendment improves your soil by increasing soil's alkalinity. Acidic soils, that is, soils with low PH, restrict plants growth by causing a poor response to fertilizer and soil structure.
Plants grow well in average soil PH levels around 6.5 to 6.8, widely between 6 and 7 PH levels. But at any PH level below 6.0, it does not matter whether the soil has nutrients because the nutrients are not absorbed by the plant. These important plant nutrients are macronutrients such as phosphorus, nitrogen, magnesium, and potassium. While these important nutrients needed by the soil are tied up, unable to be absorbed, micronutrients such as iron and manganese, which are needed in small doses by the plants, are raised to a level that becomes toxic to the plants. Aluminum, which is also present in the soil but is not needed nor absorbed by the plant roots due to its insolubility in normal soil PH levels, becomes soluble in acidic soil. As a result, the plant becomes stunted in appearance due to the inability of its root to grow, absorb water and required nutrients.
Applying Jobe's Organics Garden Lime Soil Amendment rejuvenates your soil and makes the important nutrients available for absorption once again. Hydrangeas that yield blue or lavender-blue hydrangea blooms due to the soil's acidic nature turn pink as the soil becomes alkaline. And generally, all your plants and flowers become healthy as they grow and blossom healthily.
Using the Jobe's Organics Garden Lime Soil Amendment requires that you measure your soil's PH level before deciding to pour it into your soil. You do not want to add the wrong quantity to your soil or add the Jobe's Organics Garden Lime Soil Amendment to already alkaline soil. Alkaline soil has in itself its own negative effect on a plant. Balance is key. The Jobe's Organics Garden Lime Soil Amendment comes in a 6 pounds sealed bag with directions regarding divers PH levels provided with it.
Harvest Gold Organics - Organic Soil Conditioner is a high-quality soil amendment product for your plants. It is, as its name says, all-natural. Unlike many soil conditioners and soil amendment products out there, Harvest Gold Organics - Organic Soil Conditioner boasts of a hundred percent organic products for your indoor plants, outdoor plants, your gardens, and your lawns. It brings your struggling-to-grow plant to life, just like it wasn't having any issues before. This multipurpose soil amendment tool basically sells itself in that farmers and gardeners worldwide have used the product and have given great reviews about it.
The product's blend of silica and nine beneficial natural occurring plant minerals guarantees maximum plant growth and durability. Upon use, it improves the structure of your plant soil. It increases its resilience against temperature changes and crop-destroying pests. When a plant is strong enough, it becomes less affected by temperature changes and pests that consume fragile plants.
The Harvest Gold Organics - Organic Soil Conditioner is an approved soil amendment product. Its use assures healthy root growth, a regulated water consumption rate, enhancement of plant nutrient uptake, lack of root rot, tremendous plant growth, exceptional flowering, and increased foliage. It addresses each plant's specific nutrient deficiencies and reduces water usage. Worried that your clay soil is too heavy and unable to use for gardening? The Harvest Gold Organics - Organic Soil Conditioner loosens the soil and enriches your garden. It also protects your garden against environmental stress such as mold and diseases. It is the best nature has to offer.
Being an all-organic product, the Harvest Gold Organics - Organic Soil Conditioner is safe for both your kids and your pets. We all know kids move around a lot, more than we can track. Well, using the Harvest Gold Organics - Organic Soil Conditioner is no reason to panic if you ever find them digging through your flower vase as it is non-toxic.
A test was made with two plants planted 10 feet apart from each other. They were both watered and taken care of in the same way. But with one difference, the first plant has its soil mixed with Harvest Gold Organics - Organic Soil Conditioner while the other wasn't. After a few weeks of nurturing, the difference is crystal clear. While one was frail and not so good looking even though it was well watered as the other, the other, whose soil was mixed with Harvest Gold Organics - Organic Soil Conditioner, was straight-up beautiful. All its leaves are green, and you would never even believe they are the same plant. That is the effect of the Harvest Gold Organics - Organic Soil Conditioner.
Brut Worm Farms Worm Castings Soil Builder is another excellent natural soil amendment for your plants. It boosts your soil by introducing worm casting, which provides your soil with the microbial life it needs to ensure all minerals needed by your plant to grow are acquired.
Since Brut Worm Farms Worm Castings Soil Builder is designed for natural gardening, the earthworm castings are rich, dark, and high in organic matter. It is full of beneficial bacteria and microbes needed to keep your plants happy and healthy. This ensures long-term nourishment and a boost to your plant's soil.
Worm casting is beneficial to the soil. They add living organic matter to the farm soil and increase your soil's CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity), thereby increasing its fertility. Worm castings are also a great choice if you're looking to bring your soil to a neutral PH level. If your soil is acidic or alkaline, introducing worm castings, which are at near-neutral PH, into the soil is a great fix for soil PH balancing.
Another great advantage of worm casting is that it reduces soil compaction, which increases the moisture-holding capacity of your soil. Other advantages of introducing worm castings into the soil are improving soil aeration, reducing soil erosion, improving soil structure, reducing soil crusting, and providing the nutrients needed by the plants in available form.
The Brut Worm Farms Worm Castings Soil Builder comes as a 30-pound bag full of very fresh castings and high-quality worms, usually less than a week old. This guarantees that it is one of the best organic fertilizers to make your plants thrive. The Brut Worm Farms Worm Castings Soil Builder is non-toxic and odor-free, making it suited for both indoor and outdoor gardening activities. It is an excellent choice for your flowers, houseplants, vegetables, and more.
The worms of the Brut Worm Farms Worm Castings Soil Builder are raised in Minnesota by Brut Worm Farms themselves. The production of their worm castings is not outsourced, unlike other worm casting products, so you don't have any worries about finding sticks, sands, and other things that don't belong in a worm casting product.
LAWNSTAR Liquid soil Aerator is another great answer to your soil problems. Dealing with hard and compact soil can be tough. And truthfully, so is the stress of solving that problem. Having to spend a whole lot of money to rent a mechanical aerator may not be what you're looking for in your field too. Well, great news. The LAWNSTAR Liquid soil Aerator boasts of solving that problem in a flash. The manufacturers of these products understand that as a new buyer, you can be quite skeptical about the effect of this product it boasts of. This is why to share with you the confidence they have in this amazing product; they offer a 30 days money-back guarantee if you're not pleased with the results after you purchase their products. Take it from me; you'd be pleased.
The LAWNSTAR Liquid soil Aerator breaks down compacted soil with its hyper-concentrated formulation designed to loosen and condition previously compacted soil and improve its water penetration by a whole lot. The time and money wasted from overwatering your lawn are greatly saved as your field's water uptake and drainage increase. The LAWNSTAR Liquid soil Aerator also increases your plant soil oxygenation, allowing more room for plant roots to get the oxygen needed for plant growth.
To get the best out of the LAWNSTAR Liquid soil Aerator, ensure that it is applied in the morning before 10am or in the evening period after 5pm. These are periods during which the sun is not yet out; therefore, there is a decreased evaporation rate after applying the product on your lawn, leading to greater efficacy. Do not apply it in the afternoon. After application, take about 20 to 30 minutes to water your lawn and watch as the magic happens.
The LAWNSTAR Liquid soil Aerator provides value for money as its 32 fluid ounces is enough to cover up to 32000 square feet of lawn. And at its price, that means you pay less than a dollar per 1000 square foot of lawn. Not to worry, the product is environmentally friendly. What LAWNSTAR aims to give you is a cutting-edge lawn care solution that not only saves you time and energy but pays for itself time and time again. And that, they deliver.
the Simple Lawn solutions - growth booster is another product manufactured by the tested and trusted simple lawn solutions. This product aims to repair your lawn and bring it to produce green and beautiful plants by treating its nutrient deficiencies.
Acting as a great starter fertilizer, this growth booster lawn fertilizer provides the essential phosphorus (18%) needed to increase seed germination. It boosts the vertical and lateral growth of your seedlings. Phosphorus is also great for root development, and it improves plants' resilience to diseases. This ability to enhance plant development makes this product highly recommended if you plan to seed your lawn or establish a sod.
Having a nitrogen content of 6%, this product is an excellent growth booster. Nitrogen is great for the plant's food processing, growth, and creation of enough chlorophyll (the green pigment of plants). This means that this product bolsters the formation of the green coloring your plants will need to make an attractive lawn.
This lawn growth booster is blended with humic acid to promote your plant's nutrient uptake. Humic acid increases the plant's drought tolerance, nutrient uptake, and seed germination by buffering your soil PH level to about 5.5 to 7.5. at this soil PH level, microbial activities in the soil are increased. All locked-up soil nutrients needed for plant growth are readily available for your plant's roots to absorb.
The lawn growth booster is perfect for all grass types, including St. Augustine, Buffalo, Florida Palmetto, Fescue, Bermuda, Zoysia, Centipede, Ryegrass, Bahia, and the Kentucky Bluegrass.
This product comes with a readily available 32 oz. w hose-end sprayer, simply connect your hose to it and start spraying your field. You get 1 gallon of the lawn growth booster, which can cover up to 32000 square feet of lawn. It is a perfect solution to your lawn problems as it promises a quick effect on your plant after application.
This lawn growth booster, just like all other simple lawn solution products, is manufactured in the United States. It is a family-owned business with more than 25 years of experience in the turf and agriculture industry. And their customers have always given nothing less than great feedback on all products they have manufactured. As just like you would be, they are satisfied.
Lawn aeration is a very important factor in making your plant grow green and thick. It is a process that is just as important as adding fertilizer to your soil. This is because it works wonders loosening up the soil, allowing the plant roots room to breathe and eventually grow, giving you a lawn or garden that is the envy of everyone around you. The difference in your farm does not take too long to show as you'll begin to see signs that mad you wish you had done it sooner.
Over time, as the soil is being used, it tends to compact and leave no room for plants, especially seedlings, to grow. But most people do not focus on this. Instead, all the focus is on adding the right fertilizer to the soil and daily wetting of the soil. But of what essence is wetting the soil when the plant can't grow or even access this water?
Aeration solves this problem by allowing water to reach the various parts of the soil and, by extension, the plant roots. It also allows these roots to reach the soil nutrients more easily. This is when you see your fertilizer having the effect you wanted it to have in the beginning. And the truth is, for some, it would be when they notice that they didn't even need fertilizer in the first place. No one likes to be choked. Well, the same goes for plants.
The best time to aerate your lawn is during the spring period, and with good reason. This is because your soil has just felt the heavy pressure placed on it during the winter. The layers of snow have pressed the soil down, forcing the soil particles together. So immediately the snow has thawed in the spring, breathe life to it immediately so that the adverse effect of the winter pressure is not felt by the soil.
While the spring is one time, you should not miss when aerating your lawn, adding one or two times during the year to aerate your soil is a great idea. In fact, it is recommended. So, in addition to the spring period, you can also add the summer and fall to your calendar for giving your soil room to breathe. And your lawn stays just as beautiful as ever. The downside to this is, you start getting jealous neighbors.
There are two main methods of aerating your lawn. The first is mechanical aeration, while the second is liquid aeration.
Mechanical aeration involves using a machine that can be manual or powered to remove soil cores and thatching every few inches from the soil so that water, fertilizers, and grass seeds can enter.
While you can do this personally, it takes a while and some practice to understand its use. Most people have to pay technicians to rent the machines and use them for their lawns.
The second method, liquid aeration, takes the stress and the renting away from you. All you need is a sprayer to spray the product, and it does its work. This is getting increasingly popular among lawn owners for the reasons below.
the time between starting and finishing your liquid aeration process is very short. All that is needed is to add your liquid aerator to the sprayer and spray away, and you're done. However, with the mechanical aerator, a lot of time is saved setting up your machine and ensuring that you've got everything settled before you start the process. It's a whole process and a time tasking one at that. Many times, the time you'd have to take waiting for the technician to arrive and finishing his duties can be used for some other things.
as I said earlier, setting up a mechanical aerator is time-consuming and stressful. Sometimes you may have to research online on how to use a mechanical aerator before setting it up. For the liquid aerator, all you have to do is spray. The only learning that is needed is how much liquid is needed to cover your lawn.
mechanical aeration is limited in how deep they can go (mostly 2-3 inches). But the liquid aerator can go much deeper as the liquid due to the help of gravity moves downward. This is a great thing as fertilizers and water can easily get into the soil and are accessible by the plant roots. Plant roots themselves can go much deeper.
most people don't like to spend more. Especially if more does not necessarily mean better. Getting a lawn technician to aerate your lawn a=can cost you over $200, which is a lot considering that liquid aerators cost less than $50 to cover the same amount of lawn space, or even more.
the liquid aerator basically does its work without moving soil around. This means that soil plugs left by mechanical aerators are not seen nor existent when using liquid aerators. Your lawn beauty is retained as there is no digging through the grass to make room for air.
Worm castings are produced as a result of the interaction between worms and microorganisms in controlled conditions. This controlled interaction improves your soil considerably by adding living organic matter to your soil. It also increases your soil's cation exchange capacity and neutralizes both alkaline and acidic soils. Due to the granular nature of these castings, there improve your soil aeration and eliminate your soil compaction problems. They also absorb and hold water like a sponge, thereby reducing soil erosion. Looking to get worm casting for your soil, the Brut Worm Farms Worm Castings Soil Builder is a great product for you.
When dead plants and animals decay through the activities of microorganisms, humic acid is formed. Introducing humic acid into your soil acts to:
amongst many other benefits.
Though both liquid soil aeration and mechanical aeration methods are effective for aerating the soil, I will prefer liquid soil aeration. This is because it is faster to use, penetrates the soil more deeply, cheaper, not to mention that it doesn't leave a mess of your lawn when you're done. All you have to do is spray them, and it gets to work.
When your soil becomes acidic, plants that thrive in acidic soil, such as the lawn moss, begin to flourish instead of yours. Your plants stop reacting to fertilizers. Also, insecticides and herbicides stop being effective, allowing for an increase in plant diseases, pests, and weeds.
A soil conditioner breaks down compacted soil, giving it space for air and water to flow through them. This way, soil microorganisms thrive, and your plant roots are given more freedom to grow. They can be made of either inorganic products such as sand or expanded clay or organic products such as peat moss, animal manure, compost, etc.
Cation exchange capacity determines the ability of your soil to supply the three most important plant nutrients: magnesium, calcium, and potassium. This means that a plant planted in soil with a low CEC will germinate poorly as the nutrients it needs are not catered for. Common factors that affect CEC levels in the soil are:
Liquid Soil Loosener- Soil Conditioner-Use alone or when Aerating with Mechanical Aerator - Walmart Link
Hoffman 15503 Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss, 10 Quarts - Walmart Link
The Andersons Humic DG Organic Soil Amendment - Covers up to 10,000 sq ft (11 lb) - Walmart Link
Jobe's Organics Garden Lime Soil Amendment, 6 lb - Walmart Link
Simple Lawn Solutions Root Hume- Simple Grow Solutions - Concentrated Humic Acid - Liquid - Walmart Link
BRUT WORM FARMS Worm Castings Soil Builder - 30 Pounds - Organic Fertilizer - Natural - Walmart Link
Worm Castings Organic Fertilizer, Wiggle Worm Soil Builder, 4.5-Pounds - Walmart Link
Espoma GS7 Greensand Soil Conditioner, 7.5-Pound - Walmart Link
GARDEN LIME 6.75 LBS - Walmart Link
8QT Professional Grade Vermiculite by Plantation Products - Walmart Link
Plantonix Coco Coir Brick, OMRI Listed for Organic Use (5 Bricks) - Walmart Link
Nectar for the Gods NGOS3004 One Shot Granules, 4 lb Soil Amendment, Black - Walmart Link
16-0-0 Double Dark Granular Lawn Fertilizer (with 6% Iron) Covers 15,000 Square Feet - - Walmart Link
Mycorrhizal Inoculant by DYNOMYCO – High Performing Strains – Concentrated Formula – - Walmart Link
Turbo Soil Bio-Blend - Superior Organic Soil Amendment by GS Plant Foods (3 lbs) - Soil - Walmart Link
Cinderite 100% Organic Soil Conditioner Amendment for Indoor, Outdoor Plants & Gardens - - Walmart Link
Down to Earth Organic Greensand Fertilizer, 5 lb - Walmart Link
Simple lawn solutions-Liquid soil loosener - Walmart Link
Brut Worm Farms Worm Castings Soil Builder - Walmart Link
Liquid Soil Loosener- Soil Conditioner-Use alone or when Aerating with Mechanical Aerator - eBay Link
Hoffman 15503 Canadian Sphagnum Peat Moss, 10 Quarts - eBay Link
The Andersons Humic DG Organic Soil Amendment - Covers up to 10,000 sq ft (11 lb) - eBay Link
Jobe's Organics Garden Lime Soil Amendment, 6 lb - eBay Link
Simple Lawn Solutions Root Hume- Simple Grow Solutions - Concentrated Humic Acid - Liquid - eBay Link
BRUT WORM FARMS Worm Castings Soil Builder - 30 Pounds - Organic Fertilizer - Natural - eBay Link
Worm Castings Organic Fertilizer, Wiggle Worm Soil Builder, 4.5-Pounds - eBay Link
Espoma GS7 Greensand Soil Conditioner, 7.5-Pound - eBay Link
GARDEN LIME 6.75 LBS - eBay Link
8QT Professional Grade Vermiculite by Plantation Products - eBay Link
Plantonix Coco Coir Brick, OMRI Listed for Organic Use (5 Bricks) - eBay Link
Nectar for the Gods NGOS3004 One Shot Granules, 4 lb Soil Amendment, Black - eBay Link
16-0-0 Double Dark Granular Lawn Fertilizer (with 6% Iron) Covers 15,000 Square Feet - - eBay Link
Mycorrhizal Inoculant by DYNOMYCO – High Performing Strains – Concentrated Formula – - eBay Link
Turbo Soil Bio-Blend - Superior Organic Soil Amendment by GS Plant Foods (3 lbs) - Soil - eBay Link
Cinderite 100% Organic Soil Conditioner Amendment for Indoor, Outdoor Plants & Gardens - - eBay Link
Down to Earth Organic Greensand Fertilizer, 5 lb - eBay Link
Simple lawn solutions-Liquid soil loosener - eBay Link
Brut Worm Farms Worm Castings Soil Builder - eBay Link
Knowing when to improve your soil quality is very important, and a little dedicated minute you'd take to take care of your plant will go a long y=way. Not just for your plant but also for you. Because the truth is, no one sees a plant, healthy in all of its glory and not beam with a smile. That's the gift you'd be giving yourself. Why don't you get started already?
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About Christina Lopez
Christina Lopez grew up in the scenic city of Mountain View, California. For eighteen ascetic years, she refrained from eating meat until she discovered the exquisite delicacy of chicken thighs. Christina is a city finalist competitive pingpong player, an ocean diver, and an ex-pat in England and Japan. Currently, she is a computer science doctoral student. Christina writes late at night; most of her daytime is spent enchanting her magical herb garden.
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