Which of the following is an important step before planting vegetables in a school garden to ensure proper nutrient availability?
Sprinkling chemical bleach over the dirt
The availability of nutrients to plants depends heavily on soil pH, since most essential nutrients are optimally soluble and absorbable by roots only within a specific pH range (roughly neutral to slightly acidic for most vegetables).
Testing the soil pH and preparing it accordingly (through liming, adding organic matter, or other amendments) ensures the soil is in the correct condition for nutrient uptake before planting.
Daily watering and buying gardening tools are useful but do not directly ensure nutrient availability, and chemical bleach would harm soil health rather than help it.
Therefore, the correct answer is testing and preparing the soil pH.
Important Questions from Soil Fertility
What is a common feature between Rhizobium and Azospirillum?
Commercially produced chemical substance which increases fertility of soil is
Which organism is commonly known as 'Friends of farmers'?
