The soil in which your garden is planted is one of the most important factors contributing to the quality of your harvest. it may seem like you’re stuck with the soil you have, the truth is there are quite a few gardening maintenances and gardening services you can do to improve the quality of your soil and maximize your harvest.

So here are 19 garden soil hacks you can use to grow a healthy garden.

1. Control the Weeds

There are a number of reasons why weeds are such a problem for gardeners, including the fact that they pull all of the nutrients out of the soil. If you want to create an ideal growing habitat for your plants, getting the weeds in your garden under control needs to be a top priority.

Start by putting mulch over your garden in the fall in order to get a head start on weed control and prevent many weeds from sprouting. From there, try to stay on top of the weeds by pulling up those that do sprout in the spring as quickly as possible.

You can bury the weeds you pull under a few inches of mulch to kill two birds with one stone and add more nutrients to the soil at the same time you are eliminating your plants’ competition.