soil improver

Compost should be considered a soil improver, rather than a source of plant nutrition.

Compost is not a fertilizer, but a soil improver.

The "bio-char" is then returned to the land where it acts as a soil improver.

Soil improver: Leaves decompose slowly and are useful as mulch.

Hickories are considered "soil improvers" because their leaves have a relatively high calcium content.

Think of them as soil improvers and keep adding them to soil every year.

As a soil improver, compost is a valuable additive to garden soil.

The resulting material is added to a landfill or used as a soil improver to create terra preta.

It is used as a source of nectar for bees, as forage, and as a soil improver.

They are barriers against weeds and evaporation, and havens for slugs, but not much good as soil improvers.

By-products include molassed sugar beet feed for cattle and LimeX70, a soil improver.

Through its ability to fix nitrogen and its low nutrient requirement this plant is suitable to be planted on exhausted fields as a soil improver.

During this maturation, the ammonia will be oxidized into nitrates, improving the fertility of the material and making it more suitable as a soil improver.

One Long Island gardener, who has been using seaweed for many years as a mulch and soil improver has amazing soil now.

Anaerobic digestion harnesses anaerobic microorganisms to break down the biodegradable component of the waste to produce biogas and soil improver.

Critics say, however, that garden waste, which includes grass cuttings, leaves and plant debris, is turned into high-quality compost and soil improver that the local authorities can sell.

The Bodmin and Wadebridge Railway (B&W) opened in 1834 to carry sand brought up the River Camel for use as a soil improver.

Of course, compost is a great sort of mulch, but it is best relegated to life as a dig-in soil improver at planting time rather than an over-the-ground type of mulch.

PFOA contaminated waste was incorporated into soil improver and spread on agricultural land in Germany, leading to PFOA drinking water contamination of up to 0.519 parts per billion.

The food and garden waste is usually collected weekly or fortnightly, and is taken to an In Vessel composter or Anaerobic digester, where the waste is turned into soil improver for use on local farms.

You really should collect your leaves, cage them and compost them, so that you can put this lovely free, natural, humus-creating resource to best use in about a year or 18 months' time, using it as a mulch and general soil improver.

For example the meal that arises as a result of rapeseed extraction, also known as rapeseed cake, is an excellent protein concentrate, but can also be used, for example, in alternative energy production, or as a soil improver in arable farming.