1. Compost improves the soil chemistry.

Compost acts as a buffer to the soil’s pH modifying and stabilizing it. In addition to this, it helps soil hold nutrients in the root zone which prevents leaching. Compost can also increase the soil’s capacity for retaining soluble forms of plant nutrients. This is important to help your plants and vegetables grow.

2. Compost uses less water.

Healthy soil has greater moisture retention. This means you can water your garden less. With the introduction of organic matter, heavy soils can hold water and resist compaction by reducing erosion and runoff. EPA data shows that “soil can retain 16,000 more gallons of water per acre for every 1 percent of organic material”.

3. Compost benefits the soil biology.

Compost inoculates the soil with beneficial organisms such as nitrogen-fixing bacteria. It also improves resistance to insect pests. Compost provides habitat and food beneficial to our little soil buddies like earthworms. There’s a long list of insects, worms, and other creatures that benefit from compost that in turn improve your soil structure. These creatures all help to aerate the soil as they move through it and are part of the complex soil web that makes plant life possible. When they die, they also contribute their bodies to the organic matter in the soil.

Soil can retain 16,000 more gallons of water per acre for every 1 percent of organic material

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