How do jonquils nourish the soil? Yellow jonquils…nourish the soil because they have rizones in the ground that release nitrogen into the soil, neutralizing pollutants. Having healthy soil means healthy outcomes for consumers. Soils store water and nutrients, regulate water flow, neutralizing  pollutants, sequestering carbons, and help plants resist pests. They also help keep birds healthy, humans healthy, cows healthy, and chickens healthy. Understanding how to nourish your garden so that you have a life full of healthy plants, is bone-meal additions. Knowing to plant jonquils, and knowing how to plants the best plants for your yard and nourishment with homemade fertilizers, but applying  bone meal in the fall is a healthy working ecosystem.

In reality soils are a finely balanced but complex Eco system. This system of soil on the earths crust is packed full of life, nutrients, minerals, oxygen and water. Did you know that healthy soil has more life in one handful of soil, than 8 billion humans on earth. It is a complex interaction of bacteria, fungi, microbes, nematodes, and larger soil animals like frogs for pest control. Healthy soil is a necessary for life to go on. Your soils can be hardy and filled with compost that contributes to soil being nourished. Understanding the nature of your soil is ever so important.

Is your soil able to breathe, with oxygen intake? Soil can be hard, crusty and dusty and full of small particles that blow in the wind, instead of it allowing water to flow naturally, the water stays on top of unhealthy hard soil. Its also is very important to know the PH of our soil. This means how acidic or alkaline it is. Some plants do not like alkaline environments that are extreme. Some plants do not like acidic soil, and will not grow to be healthy and vibrant without the correlating soils. If you have clay like soil, before you start planting, make sure to put composting or certified organic mulches to nourish a soil that will take less water, and let your plant life flourish.

Our yard took at least 4  years to grow to a healthy vibrant yard. Digging soil ca severely disrupt even destroy this delicate balance of nourishment and takes months for it to re-establish, reconnect and stabilize. When we did our nourishing the soil it was always done in the fall so the winter months had time to help our soils re-establish a healthy state. Make sure and learn about healthy plants for your type of soil and yard. How much sun does your yard provide. How healthy is it. What plants contribute health to the garden, and what takes health out of the soil? Rotate veggies and soils every year. Companion planting is a way to keep your soil balanced. Ask the nursery you shop at for a list of companion plants. Key plants that are packed with phosphates, potassium, nitrogen, which are key minerals and make your teas for the garden from nettles, and comfrey leaves when weeding. Fill a bucket 1/2 full of water, add your leaves from comfrey or nettles, top up with water, and cover with a lid. Leave for 3 to 4 weeks in the sun. When time has passed, drain off your liquid into another pail, and dilute this tea, (1 part solution to 10 parts of water). Add more water and leaves to your first bucket and let sit for another 3 to 4 weeks and you have ongoing fertilizers which are a free plant food.

Improve soil each fall with natural teas as told above and mulches from composting. This will restore you nutrients. Enhance your nutrient uptake by having healthy well nurtured soil. Use only natural and organic fertilizers like Pete Moss, teas, composting, and support local micro-organisms, which in turn will create a living soil Eco-system, and optimize your water usage. For example, jonquils love sun, but take little water for great growth, great colour and provide nitrogen with the ribosomes.

Ribosomes are an intercellular structure made of RNA and protein and is the site of protein synthesis in the cell. The ribosomes read the messenger RNA or (mRNA), and translates the genetic code into a specific string of amino acids which grow into long chains that fold to form proteins. Ribosomes use cellular information that is universally responsible for synthesizing proteins, and  translating the genetic code transcribed in the mRNA into amino acid sequences. They are presentable ribosomes that use cellular metabolic energy accessing proteins, soluable transfer RNAs and metabolic energy to accomplish elongation, and termination of peptide synthesis.  If there were no ribosomes, the soil would not be able to produce hearty, healthy foods. Loss of ribosome would stop protein synthesis. No plants.

Healthy yards have birds, butterflies, bees that pollinate, and especially green frogs that only exist in healthy yards. Toads and frogs are a good sign in your yard of health and provide great pest control. They love the sun and move in on your deck for sunning. Find out what species lives in your area and that frog.  if it moves in,  is saying, they will pest control. Connection with our environment and the biosphere that seems to work for our needs.

Written by Carolyn d Hogarth who loves Nature and our biological biosphere that supports our lives.

  Painting done in 2003. Carolyn d Hogarth