Happy #worms = #happy #soil

I've been redoing the #garden beds (mainly to try and keep the tree roots out) and the soil is looking great this year, thanks in part to the worms who thrive in our #compost.

Garden Answer: Spring Pond Clean-Out & Plant Maintenance Around the Pond! https://www.allforgardening.com/1241247/garden-answer-spring-pond-clean-out-plant-maintenance-around-the-pond-%f0%9f%92%a7%f0%9f%90%a1%f0%9f%8c%bf/ #Answer #beautiful #bush #dirt #diy #earth #fall #flower #garden #GardenAnswer #gardener #gardening #green #grow #growing #Laura #plant #planting #plants #Proven #shrub #shrubs #soil #spring #succulent #succulents #summer #VLog #winner's #winter

#Rewilding #Gardening #Soil

"3 Crazy Ways To Make Your Garden Soil Explosive" [5:54 min]
by HydroHaven

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPxDlwD5Xgc

Quote by HH:
"Mar 24, 2025
Tired of struggling with your garden soil? Three unconventional methods are explored, demonstrating how to unlock your soil's full potential and create a thriving garden. These surprising techniques, inspired by nature itself, can transform your soil into a haven for vibrant plants."

#TakeCareForLife #TakeCareForEarth
#StopBurningThings #StopEcoside

All sorts of #toxic materials are released into the #atmosphere when buildings and their contents #burn. It's why one sees urban #firefighters donning breathing apparatus. #Wildlands adjacent to the Los Angeles basin also contain #mercury and #lead in #soil and litter layers, deposited over many years from #air #pollution generated by vehicles and industries. #Wildfires often emit these heavy metals.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/well/la-firefighters-mercury-lead-blood-levels.html

Vapour Pressure Deficit and warming temperatures causing Earth to likely hit a point of irreversible moisture loss in its #soil as a result of #climatecrisis, according to a new study.
More than 2,614 gigatonnes of moisture was lost from 2000 to 2016.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-28/earths-big-dry-out-freshwater-loss-irreversible-climate-change/105100272

This is an interesting article, worth a full read, on an aspect of Climate not always talked about in much detail.

«… The drying out of soil “increases the severity and frequency” of major droughts …, explains Dr Benjamin Cook, an … Earth system scientist … “Droughts are one of the most impactful, expensive natural hazards out there, because they are typically persistent and long lasting. Everything needs water – ecosystems need water, agriculture needs water. People need water. If you don’t have enough water – you’re in trouble.” … The study points to two factors driving gradual depletion of soil moisture over the last quarter century: fluctuations to rainfall patterns and increasing “evaporative demand”. … the atmosphere’s “thirst” for water …»

When I read about these things, I think of the danger to the food system and human society. It saddens me beyond measure that we've got a society run by capitalists who, like locusts, just want to efficiently consume every last resource the planet has to offer with no apparent regard for the future.

The article also mentions it will be expensive, though. Does that matter to any of you capitalists? I know risk of societal collapse is not a worthy concern to you, just something to monetize. But it could affect prices along the way. Is THAT perhaps a concern, at least? Sigh.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/global-soil-moisture-in-permanent-decline-due-to-climate-change/

Earth has lost more than '4000 Sydney Harbours' of freshwater
By Peter de Kruijff

Soil moisture has declined more than 2,600 gigatonnes since 2000, making a greater contribution to sea level rise than Greenland's melting ice sheets.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2025-03-28/earths-big-dry-out-freshwater-loss-irreversible-climate-change/105100272

The @E_SPFdigit survey targets #soil practitioners, advisors, companies & technical centres aiming to collect information related to digital technologies for monitoring nutrients, chemical and biological stressors in both #soil and plants.
https://x.com/eucapnetwork/status/1883483804049768866?s=12&t=rUVa0ijJxwykE_n36sZtBg

Greetings from Okinawa. Here I take you along a walk in a bit of subtropical forest to chat about soil forming factors.

Ever wonder why soils are so different at different locations?

#soil #climate #nature #vegetation #forest

https://youtu.be/-dD8cGjm92M?si=4ESq3Xqro6DXNDS2

Plants for Soil Regeneration: An Illustrated Guide by Sally Pinhey & Margaret Tebbs, 2022

This book is a comprehensive, beautifully illustrated colour guide to the plants which farmers, growers and gardeners can use to improve soil structure and restore fertility without the use and expense of agrichemicals.

@bookstodon
#books
#nonfiction
#soil
#regeneration
#plants

The container pond is now in place. I now know there’s about 30 cm/1’ of top soil before the clay layer. The soil texture is being assessed.

A pallet end put to use in making bricks from the excess excavated clay or providing mason bees with some handy nesting material before it dries.

Deer have been munching on the jostaberry so for now it’s covered in insect mesh until I can fashion something more permanent.

A key part of my soil improvement plan at the community garden is to always have a bag handy to put the pieces of plastic, glass, and metal that turn up when I'm digging. Zip-ties and small shreds of plastic mulch are the most common, courtesy past gardeners who just couldn't be bothered to clean up after themselves. #trash #garden #gardening #allotment #GrowYourOwn #plastic #soil

Rest of the day was mostly feeding branches to #HerrSchröder. The woodchips completed a little garden path but the larger share went into the mud pit in front of the garden, which is a right mess now after the concrete removal.

Some ancient hay from the barn floor on top of that and blended it all in with the rotavator. The idea is that this will improve the gloopy soil there and allow it to drain better. Tomorrow I want to compact it.

Garden tilled. The rotavator dug up a brick, a few more concrete chunks, some plastic, a pipe and a massive fucking steel beam. Luckily it seems I didn't break any of the tines. The guard door on the right was bent slightly, but it was easy to unbolt and bang straight again, didn't even chip the paint. Japanese steel won over Soviet steel

Figured out what the feedback lever does, too!

Some tricky driving to get in the corners.

Still regret not buying this. #soil #plants #gardening #roots

Chunqiang Wei et al. found that #Plant species of higher #IntrinsicGrowthAbility suffered greater negative #Soil effects, plant traits such as intrinsic growth ability, other than #PhylogeneticRelatedness, could be reliable #Predictors for plant responses to #SoilBiota, the soil biota on average had greater negative impacts on the #ExoticSpecies, particularly the #PerennialSpecies, than on the native species.
https://doi.org/10.1093/jpe/rtac044