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Soil Health for Vegetable Gardens
Transform the Health of Your Garden Soil
Often the answer to why some vegetables don’t grow well, lies within the soil! This course teaches you how to create soil that is a nutrient-rich, healthy ecosystem for your vegetable garden.
Getting confused trying to sift through the various suggestions that will help you get the garden you need? The constant ads for products that will magically improve your garden? Or the constant misinformation that pops up on your social media that states the opposite of what you read last week? After this course, you can become confident in exploring and making decisions about what the soil in your personal vegetable garden needs, despite the marketing noise out there.
Bri, your instructor, studied soil science at the graduate level and has helped numerous farmers and gardeners develop healthy, organic soil. In this course, she breaks down this complicated topic of soil, into easy-to-understand and manageable techniques to produce your healthiest soil yet!
This mini course will help you:
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Understand how to keep your soil healthy by improving soil structure
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Maintain healthy soil structure longterm to help your vegetable plant’s roots go deep into the soil and allow for good flow of oxygen and nutrients
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Learn the very basics of soil chemistry
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Outline the 12 nutrients that vegetable plants need to grow in a healthy way
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Know the difference between micronutrients and macronutrients
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Learn to use natural amendments vs chemical fertilizers to create healthy soils
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Reduce Heavy Metals in your urban soils
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Use natural ways to reduce Metals and Metalloids like Lead, Cadmium,Arsenic and Copper which get taken up by plant roots into the tissue and end up in your plate and in your body.
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