Grow Your Soil: Harness the Power of the Soil Food Web to Create Your Best Garden Ever Native Plants It is an excellent plant

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The unusually high carbon content guarantees balanced carbon-to-nitrogen ratios necessary for maintaining healthy soil

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Grow Your Soil: Harness the Power of the Soil Food Web to Create Your Best Garden Ever Native Plants It is an excellent plantBy Diane Miessler Growing awareness of the importance of soil health means that microbes are on the minds of even the most casual gardeners. After all, anyone who has ever attempted to plant a thriving patch of flowers or vegetables knows that what you grow is only as good as the soil you grow it in. It is possible to create and maintain rich, dark, crumbly soil that's teeming with life, using very few inputs and a no till, no fertilizer approach.