Story Title: Improving Soils
Episode 4: WA's Great Gardens
Date: 24 October 2010
Presenter: Trevor Cochrane

Darren and his landscaping team prepare yet another typical Perth garden with dry and gutless sands. Learn how to prepare healthier soils for a sustainable garden.

Trevor's Tips and Facts

• Putting water onto sandy soils is an absolute waste of time and water, it would simply run off or drain straight through, resulting in wasted water and drought stressed plants.
• Our landscape team applies Soil Solver to the entire garden area and rotary hoeing it in to a depth of a couple of 100mm. This clay based soil additive that will turn this hopeless sand into a rich, water retentive loam, teeming with life and able to grow strong, healthy plants.
• In only a matter of time you will find a huge difference in the moisture content of soils with an application of Soil Solver turning your soils into a rich and moist base for your garden.

Soil Preparation

• It is important to use a good landscaping mix for your soils. You can further boost the water holding capacity of soils by using Soil Solver.
• One of the benefits of Soil Solver is that the effect it has on the soils is permanent, so there is no need to re-apply year after year or use wetting agents and other soil conditioners.
• Soil Solver has a proven ability to increase microbial activity resulting in healthier soils, plants and less water use.

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P: 08 9245 2978
M: 0428 352 026
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WELSHPOOL WA 6106
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