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How can soil loose its fertility?
When farmers plant the same plant year after year -Kendra
How do you keep soil fertile?
Add fertilisers annually and plow it (or as close as you can get) every now and then.
Can potting soil be reused?
It can. But it's lousy soil to grow the next plant in. A plant pot is a very small, contained environment and the previous plant resident took the nutrients out of the soil that made the soil a rich, fertile growing medium. That's why in some ideal world you repot your container plants every year (somewhat longer if it's like a 22" diameter pot). If you compost, you can toss used potted plant soil in your composter and next year take out the richest soil anywhere.
What is soil depletion?
Soil depletion is when the soil no longer has any nutrients needed for living organisms. This happens in agriculture with planting fields so farmers change what fields they plant on every year.
How do farmers replace nitrogen in the soil?
There are two ways plants put nitrogen into the soil one is decomposition where a plant dies then decomposes putting the nitrogen back into the soil that it once took out. The other is from the air, Legumes are plants that take nitrogen from the air with their leaves and release it into the soil with its roots.
How can soil loose its fertility?
When farmers plant the same plant year after year -Kendra
What is the effect of a farmer planting wheat the same year in the same field?
Soil depletion. The soil's nutrients would be "mined" out of the soil if the same crop was planted in the same feild year after year. That's why it's more healthier to plant a cereal crop in the field one year, then the next have a pulse crop in like lentils, peas, canola, or whatever pulse/leguminous crop that will grow well in that area.
How do you keep soil fertile?
Add fertilisers annually and plow it (or as close as you can get) every now and then.
How can you control nutrient loss in the soil?
Use fertilizer and don't plant this same crop in the same place every year.
What could cause rich soil to lose their nutrients?
ANSWER: Over use such as planting the same type of plant in the same plot of land year after year. That is why farmers rotate the crops they plant in a field from one year to the next.
What do you do with dead peas in you vegetable garden?
Plant those peas next year for another crop. Keep doing that each year and you never have to buy seeds.
What happens when you plant crops in the same field over and over again?
All the nutrients get absorbed by the plants making the field lose more nutrients in the soil year after year until the soil is not nutrient enough to grow plants in.
Does in cactus plant food is prepared in stem?
yes.but only 3 times a year(spring, mid summer,autum) .any high nitrogen liquid plant food.dilute as per instruction on your bottle of choice,water plant. if plant has been in same pot of soil for years without feeding,then change soil first.
What can be done to the soil so it can support crops year after year?
plant something different every year
Can potting soil be reused?
It can. But it's lousy soil to grow the next plant in. A plant pot is a very small, contained environment and the previous plant resident took the nutrients out of the soil that made the soil a rich, fertile growing medium. That's why in some ideal world you repot your container plants every year (somewhat longer if it's like a 22" diameter pot). If you compost, you can toss used potted plant soil in your composter and next year take out the richest soil anywhere.
How does growing the same crops in the same fields year after year?
used up all the nutrients in the soil
What is it called when a farmer plants different crops in order to use less nutrients or different nutrients from the soil?
Crop rotation. If you plant the same crop year-after-year. That crop will use up all the nutrients specific to the needs of the plant. Crop rotation involves planting a different crop each year - thus the nutrients in the soil are more evenly used.
