Soil Ecology and Native Plant Landscapes

Deep-rooted native plants are highly advantageous to your soil. These root systems break apart denser soil structures to allow for better water infiltration, replenishing groundwater, reducing runoff, and making your gardens more drought resistant. These benefits also create a more resilient soil structure, holding it in place and reducing the amount lost and degraded to erosion.¹

The reduced and eliminated usage of pesticides in your native garden also increases your soil's fertility with time by increasing the level of beneficial microbes and fungi in the soil, as well as nutrients. Research on the impacts of organic gardening and farming have shown increases in nutrient accumulation in deep soil for non pesticide treated areas,² allowing your plants to grow quicker and stronger than they could before.