Things You'll Need:
- Manure
- Mushroom compost
- Coarse sand
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Step 1
Add inorganic fertilizers. Inorganic fertilizers may be your only option in a small garden where there is no space to store bulky organic fertilizers. They can be combined with homemade compost and leafmold.
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Step 2
Add organic fertilizers. Bulky organic fertilizers, contain fewer nutrients by weight than inorganic fertilizers, but improve the soil in other ways: They add important trace elements and help improve soil structure.
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Step 3
Add well-rotted manure. Manure is best worked into the soil, but if used as mulch and spread on the surface it will gradually be taken down into the soil by earthworms.
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Step 4
Use mushroom compost. Like manure, it is best to work mushroom compost into the soil. It is alkaline and so it cannot be used where lime-hating or acid-loving plants are to be grown.
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Step 5
Improve the soil pH. Adding lime raises the soil pH and can be added to heavy or compacted soil to help to break up lumps to form crumbs.
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Step 6
Improve soil drainage. Add coarse sand into a heavy soil to open it up and improve drainage to an extent.



















