Plant your undies to check how healthy your soil is for National Garden Week

Soil is just not solely the muse to a wholesome productive backyard however life itself and constructing wholesome soil is so simple as soiling your underwear.

Nationwide Backyard Week is held from October 17-24.

This yr plant a pair of underwear to learn how wholesome your soil is. Burying 100 per cent cotton underwear for a few months is a straightforward and efficient approach of measuring soil well being. The extra threadbare the underwear, the extra micro-organisms within the soil, which means the more healthy the soil.

The decision is out for Kiwis to soil their underwear and be in to win this Nationwide Gardening Week.

The method is straightforward:
1. Plant a pair of recent, cotton underwear horizontally about 3 inches deep within the web site you are interested in and mark the spot.
2. Wait at the very least 60 days. This provides your soil microbes time to work their magic! Then dig the underwear again up.
3. Ship in a photograph of your ‘harvest’ together with your identify, tackle and telephone quantity to soilyourundies@yates.co.nz between October 11 and 18 and be in to win some nice prizes for essentially the most dirty underwear, the most important underwear and the oddest underwear.

Each entrant receives a free packet of Yates vege seeds, restricted to the primary 2000 entries.

After which be in to win a Yates Seduce your Soil prize pack, valued at over $220, that will help you create wholesome soil for optimum rising circumstances on your vegetation. The prize contains:

•Thrive Pure Natural Blood and Bone to fertilise, enhance soil construction and supply pure natural vitamins.
•Thrive Pure Natural Backyard Lime to encourage decomposition of natural matter and earthworm exercise.
•Yates Nature’s Approach Compost Maker turns backyard and kitchen waste into wealthy, nutritious compost – quick.
•A trendy compost caddy to gather family scraps prepared for the compost bin (random color assigned of cream, gray, navy and black)
•Thrive Pure Fish & Seaweed Plus – each nourishes vegetation and enrich the soil, together with microbe & earthworm exercise
•Thrive Pure Seaweed – a tonic for plant and root well being.
•Thrive Pure liquid fertilisers for citrus and fruit and veggie and herbs.
•Yates Backyard Information – a newly up to date version of the gardener’s bible, for each inexperienced persons and seasoned inexperienced thumbs.
•A collection of Yates natural vege seeds.

Yates spokeswoman Fiona Arthur says soiling your underwear is a enjoyable strategy to ensure you’ve obtained one of the best soil for optimum rising circumstances this spring and summer time.

“Creating wholesome soil is as straightforward as feeding your soil with natural matter comparable to composted meals scraps, grass clippings, leaves, sheep or horse poo and seaweed.

“Then add blood and bone to fertilise, enhance soil construction and supply pure natural vitamins and lime encourages decomposition of natural matter and earthworm exercise.

“You will not solely have nice rising circumstances on your vegetation however you will be serving to nature and decreasing your carbon footprint as wholesome soil banks carbon,” says Fiona.

Nationwide Gardening Week goals to foster a love of gardening with a deal with rising not solely vegetation however friendships, good well being, robust communities and nearer connections with nature. Whether or not it is a number of pots on the balcony, a small patch or an in depth backyard, everybody can expertise the enjoyment of gardening.