Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.
All soils are not fertile.
Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.
Bamboos can go from shining health to shabbiness in weeks. The problem is too much wind, too little water and tired compost.
Since chemical fertilizer burns out the soil organic matter, other farmers struggle with tilth, water retention, and basic soil nutrients. The soil gets harder and harder every year as the chemicals burn out the organic matter, which gives the soil its sponginess. One pound of organic matter holds four pounds of water. The best drought protection any farmer can acquire is more soil organic matter.
Where two or more crops are taken normally, it is time to begin preparation for a good rabi crop by assembling the seeds, soil nutrients, and other agronomic inputs needed for timely sowing and good plant population.
The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired.
That dark laboratory we call the soil.
A living tree is a changing, sleeve shape, a wet, thin, bright green creature that survives in the thin layer between heartwood and bark. It stands waiting for light, which it catches in the close-woven sieves of its leaves.
Compost makes houseplants very happy.
Vegetables deplete soil. They're extractive. If soil has a bank account, vegetables make the largest withdrawals.
Vegetables, which are the lowest in the scale of living things, are fed by roots, which, implanted in the native soil, select by the action of a peculiar mechanism, different subjects, which serve to increase and to nourish them.
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.
