Buy black soil for the site or not

The question will seem strange to many summer residents – why not? Chernozem is a fertile soil, you need to increase productivity. In fact, as Our site of advice has found out, many landscape design experts are opposed to the delivery of black soil by trucks to the sites. It often doesn’t make sense.

Let’s first figure out what black soil is. Wikipedia reports that this is a special type of soil that was formed on loams and clays in a temperate continental and subboreal climate under perennial grasses and with a leaching or non-leaching water regime. Complicated? In fact, you need to remember that black soil is, in fact, clay, loam. Just richer in humus and black in color.

Hence the first reason not to buy chernozem by KAMAZ – if your soil is clayey, loamy, then there is no point in laying clay on clay!

Important! We admit that if there is sandy loam or sand on the site, then black soil will help improve the structure of the soil. So first, find out exactly what kind of soil you have on your site.

The second reason not to rush to buy a black soil car is the risk of getting not at all the fertile soil that you expected. There are many scammers. They can bring you waste and contaminated soil from greenhouses, a mixture of silt with some unknown reason. Or black soil from the Ryazan region, which experts call poor, leached. Such supplements will not be beneficial, on the contrary.

The third reason to refuse to purchase black soil is the opportunity to improve the soil structure by other methods. The portal described in detail how to do this. Better just buy peat to add to the soil, equip a compost pit. According to user reviews, many faced problems of infertility and poor soil quality on the site after construction. But over time we were able to solve this problem! You just need to dig up a plot every year with useful additives in the form of peat and compost..

As Richard Ivanovich Schroeder, an expert in Russian gardening, wrote, to improve the fertility of loam and clay, deciduous humus, peat soil, horse manure, straw compost and other loosening additives should be used. Expert advice given 130 years ago is still valid today.

And don’t forget about the benefits of green manure!

The fourth reason is that many plants do not need black soil for normal growth. For example, conifers grow well on poor soils. Ornamental shrubs and deciduous trees will also grow without black soil. The problem can arise with fruit trees, which are very fond of fertile soil. But when planting them, experts simply advise filling the planting hole with sand, garden soil, dolomite flour, compost, peat, rotted manure and other useful additives. That is, you do not need to completely fill the site with black soil and additives! This can only be done directly in the planting pit..

Experts advise removing from the site the entire layer of soil 20-30 centimeters thick only if it is hopelessly poisoned. Otherwise, this is an extra waste of time and money. And, more importantly, sabotage towards the environment. Weeds will also grow on the new black soil brought by trucks. But you will destroy the authentic plants. If there was a construction site on the site, just carefully store the garbage in one place and carefully remove everything after the end of the work. Even areas rammed with special equipment can be dug up and gradually put in order.

We state: it is advisable to import purchased black soil to the site in cases where you have sand or sandy loam. If there is clay and loam on the site, their fertility can be improved by other methods. So first find out your soil type and then make a decision. In addition, it is very important to be confident in the quality of the imported chernozem, so that, instead of being beneficial, you do not get harm..