{"id":7554,"date":"2010-05-29T00:30:52","date_gmt":"2010-05-29T07:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7554"},"modified":"2010-05-27T01:48:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T08:48:54","slug":"soil-tips-for-growing-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/soil-tips-for-growing-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Soil Tips for Growing Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Bean for a Leek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4554523999\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4050\/4554523999_9c542b6e03_m.jpg\" alt=\"159\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Is your soil so poor nothing will grow in it? No I didn&#8217;t think so because weeds will grow anywhere!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improve Your Soil<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Rotted farmyard manure, dug in each year, will boost your soils fertility.<\/li>\n<li> The rotted farmyard manure breaks down to humus that opens up clay soils and holds moisture in sandy soils.<\/li>\n<li> You need to replace the nutrients taken out of the soil by this seasons crops and that is where an annual dose of farmyard manure comes in.<\/li>\n<li> Cover the veg-patch with black polythene over winter. This stops goodness leaching out, stops weeds and warms the soil in spring.<\/li>\n<li> I also trench the Runner Bean rows with an extra bottom covering of manure to hold extra moisture.<\/li>\n<li> Add lime for growing Brassicas but Potatoes love the slight acidity that often comes with farmyard manure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is your soil so poor nothing will grow in it? No I didn&#8217;t think so because weeds will grow anywhere! Improve Your Soil Rotted farmyard manure, dug in each year, will boost your soils fertility. The rotted farmyard manure breaks down to humus that opens up clay soils and holds moisture in sandy soils. You need to replace the nutrients taken out of the soil by this seasons crops and that is where an annual dose of farmyard manure comes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/gardening\/tips\/soil-tips-for-growing-vegetables\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vegetables-herbs","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}