Healthy soil leads to healthy plants.

You should start with what plants you like and see what conditions they require, and think about whether your yard can provide them.

Our most important job as vegetable gardeners is to feed and sustain soil life, often called the soil food web, beginning with the microbes. If we do this, our plants will thrive, we’ll grow nutritious, healthy food, and our soil conditions will get better each year. This is what is meant by the adage ”Feed the soil not the plants.

You need healthy plants to use fertilizer efficiently.

Diversity leads to stability in the gardening system.

Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.