Soil is the soul of the food garden

Feeling the earth between your fingers is the best way to check out the friability of your soil.

Clay will roll into a sausage that can be shaped, (it’s where potter’s clay comes from), while sandy soil will run through your fingers and won’t hold a shape. Loam, however, will roll into a sausage, but won’t be shaped.

Feed the soil not the plant is at the core of organic growing, encompassing a holistic approach to soil cultivation, underlined by the knowledge that a healthy soil produces healthy plants which in turn produces healthy people.