Gardening is very important part of many peoples lives, it makes them comfortable with themselves and calm. Here you will be able to find out how to eliminate plants diseases. And you should know that those mentioned diseases can only occure when certain factors happens this article will for sure tell you about them.

Signs of healthy plants

If you want to know what are the signs of healthy plants here is the best place to find out!

Here goes the list of signs that you have healthy plants:

• your plants grow strongly,
• leaves of your plants are firm,
• root system, plants fruit and flowers are well formed.

This is easy huh? Just take a good look at our plants and find out if you have a healthy plant!

Signs of unhealthy plants

There are also very visible signs of unhealthy plants, we will give you those sings here:

• plant’s foliage wilt,
• changed leaves colour,
• bad formed flowers,
• stunted or even dead roots and stems.

Signs of healthy soil

If you want to know if your soil is healthy you can run a soil test but you can also look for couple of simple signs. Signs of healthy soil are:

• lots of underground animals and plant activity,
• soil that is going to be rich in organic matter mostly is darker but also crumbles off of the roots of plants which you will be pulling up,
• another sing would be healthy spread out root system.

Signs of healthy roots

If you are looking for signs of a healthy roots here is what they are:

• healthy kind of roots would be white coloring with fine strands,
• plants roots are supposed to be long,
• roots should be well spread out,
• mushy roots is also bad sign,
• roots shouldn’t be wet.

Soil test – what is it? How is it done?

This garden soil test is a process where elements like phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sodium, sulfur, manganese, copper and zinc are removed in a chemical way from the soil. This soil test also checks out its soil pH, humic matter and also exchangeable acidity.

If you are wondering how to do this test, we will explain it to you right now. Here goes steps you have to do:

1. first step is to pick a spot in your plant bed,
2. second step is to dip the towel down just about 6 up to 10 inches,
3. now just pull up the chunk of soil and add it to the bucket,
4. do this whole process about 10-15 times.

How to find out what type of soil you have?

If you want to find out what soil type is your soil you should take a hand of damp soil and then squeeze it. Now if your soil is clumbles or just falls apart in the hand of yours then it means you have sandy soil. However if your soil structure will be clay soil it will stay in a clump and will just fall apart in crumbles.

Workability of the soil

If your soil is hard to work on it this means that your soil has got low workability. If you will have workable soil it is less likely to compact and also give you a better circulation of water and vital nutrients.

Tips

• avoid tilling your garden just as much as it is only possible because it may be killing off pertinent soil organisms but also creating a crust top layer that doesn’t allow water to infiltrate,
• add compost (or other organic material) to your garden bed because it will improve your soil,
• if you have nutrient deficiency in your soil use water-soluble fertilizer as quick fix
• avoid sandy soil because it is unhealthy for most plants,
• check your plant roots because it may tell you a lot about your plants health,

Facts

• compacted soil will restricts water and also nutrients availability,
• plant disease can happen when you have a host, because of a pathogen which can attack your plant and also because of environmental conditions,
• spread-out roots system means that you have a good soil,
• if you want to grow vegetables you should take care about your soil,
• successful gardening means using plants that are right for your zone and site,
• there are three main plant nutrients which are nitrogen , phosphorus and potassium,
• planting has its healing properties when it comes to mental health,
• if you will notice that the water gets cloudy this means that you are dealing with bacterial problem of the soil,

Conclusion

Now you know what to do to keep your garden healthy and this can give you happy gardening that many gardeners wants to have.

We gave you here our latest tips about gardening and all of that so we hope that you enjoyed this article just the same way as we did while writting it.

Gardens are magical places that is why we should take care of them because they are simply creating your yard that beautiful.