Why it’s Important to Keep Soil Healthy for Plants

Talking Trees with Davey Tree · Feb 2, 2023 · 25m

Chris Fields-Johnson, technical advisor at the Davey Institute, talks about the importance of healthy soil and his Davey career.

In this episode we cover:

What is healthy soil? (0:50)

What the soil is like where Chris is (1:26)

The importance of PH when planting trees (2:30)

Acidic soil plants (4:40)

Can you and should you change your PH? (5:33)

The importance of a soil test (7:15)

Luxury consumption and over fertilization (9:00)

How to have more organic matter in your landscape (11:10)

What Chris does as a technical advisor at the Davey Insitute (15:25)

How Chris got started in the field…