Grow Healthier Plants

Cedar Grove Composting offers a "100% Natural" line of products that help you grow healthier flowers, trees, shrubs, and lawns by utilizing the microorganisms found within properly made compost.

Cedar Grove Composting performs regular testing that identifies the best product mixes that result in strong, thriving plants. Choose Cedar Grove Compost as a soil amendment to increase organic matter, nutrients and beneficial microorganisms that enhance growth, porosity, and water retention.

Keys to Healthy plants are:

Healthy Soil - What determines Healthy Soil? First, knowing your soil type is a good start to improving your soil. There are three general types of soil, determined by the soil particle size. It is common to have more that one soil type in your garden:

• Clay soils have many tiny particles that feel sticky when wet and when dry, form dense chunks or fine powder. Clay soil hold nutrients and water well, but drain poorly.
• Sandy soils have large particles, which are obvious to see. They feel gritty and will not form a ball when squeezed together. Sandy soils are loose and drain easily, but do not store water or nutrients for plants.
• Loam type soils are a mix of sand, clay and organic matter. Moist loam when squeezed together will form a ball yet crumbles when broken apart. Loamy soils are generally loose, well drained and able to store moisture and nutrients.

Air and Water - These essential elements transport nutrients to plants and carry away waste. Half the volume of healthy soil is made up of these two elements. Heavy compact clay soils may not have enough space for air and water to move freely to the plant root zone.

Organic Matter/Soil Life - Organic Matter (such as yard/food waste, woody debris and manure) and Soil Life (such as earthworms, insects, bacteria and fungi) make up a small part of the soil volume, but are the security that holds Healthy soil together. Applying Cedar Grove Compost to your soil will provide a diverse population of beneficial organisms, essential in supporting the web of soil life.