If you think that you just need some dirt and a seed to get started with planting a garden, a tree, or just about anything, you’re going to be in for a surprise. The chances of getting something to grow without focusing on the health, and nutrition of the soil that you’re working with is definitely going to be tough. There are a lot of reasons why things may not grow in your area, and there are some areas that have amazing soil properties. Professionals don’t just plant things into the ground. The reason why they are successful in getting things to grow is because they focus on the soil properties, and even focus on aeration.
What Is Aeration?
Aeration is a process that is vital to getting anything to grow in the ground. This is something that breaks up dense, packed dirt. You may take a shovel to your backyard and find that it’s difficult to manage overall. You may find that once you go beyond the top soil, you have rock, or you have deeply impacted elements. If you have dense, heavy soil, you can’t just plant elements in place. Nothing will grow if you have dirt that is hard for roots to come through within. Nearly all soil today needs to work with a process known as aeration, which is an introduction of pockets and nutrients to ensure that oxygen can flow. Without oxygen coming to the roots, you will not get anything to come through. Suffice to say, there are several reasons why aeration should not be neglected.
Growth Reasons
As briefly mentioned above, without any sort of air going through the soil that you have in place, roots cannot move. If you don’t have root movement, you will have nothing that anchors the plant in place. Not only that, you will not get the growing properties necessary for healthy organic materials. If your roots do not come through with proper shaped, poor nutrition and lack of oxygen will cause them to die faster than you can get a full growth cycle. In many instances, you’ll find that planting seeds, even with ample water, light and fertilizer will not yield nearly as much growing potential as you would like. Simply put, you cannot grow in soil that is not oxygen rich, simple as that.
The Worms (and more)
In the dirt that you’re going to be working with, you’ll have worms, and other microorganisms. This is not a bad thing. You need these to help push through soil, create oxygen pockets, add nitrogen, and more. Sometimes, professionals will add worms to the dirt and help create a better nutritional profile overall. By pushing this organic element in place, you’re going to find that organic matter can grow with ease, and your soil will become easier to manage. Without any sort of aeration plan in place, however, these pockets cannot form, and microorganisms will not thrive, eventually dying.
Breeding Toxic Soil
Left without any sort of changes, you’ll find that your soil could turn toxic. Toxicity in soil is not a good thing, as it could cause serious pH balance issues, and could even kill off plants that you’ve put in place. Breeding toxic soil is a bad thing, and could really cause issues moving forward. Professionals work with aeration, nutrition, and add soil elements to help ensure your dirt is not toxic. Once your dirt turns toxic, you’re going to have a steep climb to get it to a more natural state. Even with the addition of nutritional compounds, aeration is not a miracle cure for toxic soil, so it’s imperative that you get a helping hand if you suspect that your dirt is toxic at any level.
Faster Disease Development
The fastest way for your plants to develop disease is to avoid aeration. Without a helping hand in this development, your plants could end up succumbing to common diseases, and that can deal a final death blow before a full cycle can come through. If soil can’t breathe, your plants aren’t going to get the oxygen they need, and that could start at the roots. The roots can then stifle in their growth, and that effects the plant as a whole. Simply put, a quick death will follow if you don’t aerate properly.
To get proper oxygen infusions into your soil, call in a professional. It may seem easy to work on your dirt, but with professional assistance, you’ll have peace of mind, and assurance that you are going to get nutrition rich, oxygen rich soil after the work is done. Going DIY promises you no results, which can be frustrating to say the least.
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