{"id":508,"date":"2016-06-26T16:18:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T15:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/advisor\/gardening-tips\/london-soil-problem-solved-by-adding-more-organic-matter\/"},"modified":"2016-06-26T16:18:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-26T15:18:41","slug":"london-soil-problem-solved-by-adding-more-organic-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/london-soil-problem-solved-by-adding-more-organic-matter\/","title":{"rendered":"London Soil Problem Solved By Adding More Organic Matter."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the soil in central London started as a clay loam and then over<br \/>\na number of years especially in the Victorian period the ash from old<br \/>\nhouse fires was added to the soil changing the structure to a more open<br \/>\ntype of soil.So its a good idea to add spent mushroom compost to your<br \/>\nsoil every spring as a mulch, this will help maintain a correct soil pH<br \/>\nas the mushroom compost contains lime and also add humists to the soil.<br \/>\nThe exception to this rule is if you are growing some acid loving plants<br \/>\nsuch as azalea or camellias in which case you should add well rotted<br \/>\nfarm yard manure which will help to maintain the acid soil conditions<br \/>\nthese plants require.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much of the soil in central London started as a clay loam and then over a number of years especially in the Victorian period the ash from old house fires was added to the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-head-gardener"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenadvice.co.uk\/gardening-tips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}