Soils
Soil Treatment Services
Knowing which soil to use in your garden can make the difference between plants growing healthily or poorly.
Nutrition, fertilisers and the control of weeds all count towards providing the right foundation for plants to grow. Our soil treatment services include scarification and aeration.
- Which type of soil does your garden have?
- Is it chalky, firm, muddy or waterlogged?
- What is the pH balance of your soil?
We answer these questions to determine the best course of action for your garden.
What’s the healthiest soil for your garden?
Soils are unique to each area, plus they are dynamic and constantly changing. They are part of an interconnected web of relationships that underpin plant health.
Minerals and water interact with a living biological community to deliver the processes that support the growth of roots and provide the plants with water and nutrients.
Soil provides the essential link between the components that make up our environment, so protecting the health of soils is critical to environmental sustainability. Soils form these links through:
- Exchanging gases, such as carbon dioxide, with the atmosphere
- Regulating the flow of water and rainfall in the water cycle
- Providing nutrients for plant growth by degrading organic matter and transforming chemical fertilisers
- Storing, degrading and transforming organic materials and contaminants that are applied through animal and human activities or deposited by flood waters and aerial deposition.
A healthy soil is able to sustain, in the long term, its most important functions. A healthy soil will be able to sustain plants and also maintain or enhance environmental benefits.
In soils that are healthy places for plants to grow, the interactions between chemistry (soil pH, nutrients), physics (soil structure and water balance) and biology (earthworms, microbes, plant roots) are optimised for each particular place and environment.
If your soil has infestations of lawn pests, we can remove them.
Know your soil
Soils in any location are the unique result of the specific local interactions of climate, geology and hydrology.
Soils form as a result of the physical and chemical alteration (weathering) of parent materials such as rocks and organic matter. Here is a healthy portion of soil, that has a good depth of darker topsoil on the surface. The subsoil is broken up, with lots of cracks, that allow good drainage and air to pass through the profile.
This allows the grass plant roots to penetrate to a depth of the fork.
It is important when importing soil to make sure that the correct soil is chosen. Soils differ significantly from area to area and just putting a soil on the surface of another soil will not necessarily mean that it will work.
If the pH or texture are very different, the microflora and micro fauna will not be able to operate, and the roots will struggle.
Once new soil has been purchased (or the existing soil has been checked for pH balance and is healthy to use) the procedures of aeration and scarification can take place, prior to lawn construction.
