Re: [compost_tea] Re: soil chemistry facts

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 07:25:37 EDT

Given these facts:

parent material is bedrock that being broken down in to sand, silt, clay
fractions, and that this process never stops,

given that the parent material contains high levels of the nutrients that
your plant needs,

given that the biology will makes these nutrients plant-available,

then, there is no need to add inorganic fertilziers. Ever. AS LONG AS YOU
HAVE THE BIOLOGY NECESSARY to solubilize the nutrients, and turn them into
plant-available forms.

Your parent material contains the nutrients the plants need.

But, till your soil, and what happens? You will need to add compost, or
compost tea.

If natural processes kill some of the organisms, then they will need to be
added back. And foods will be needed to keep the organisms doing their jobs.

If you use cover crops, the plants will maintain the organisms through the
non-crop parts of the year. Cover crops below permanent crops. cover crops
that go dormant in dry parts of the year.....

But there is more than enough of any nutrient present in any soil.
Hopefully, we'll get the data published soon......


Elaine R. Ingham
Soil Foodweb Inc., Corvallis, Oregon
Soil Foodweb Inc., Port Jefferson, New York
Soil Foodweb Institute, Lismore Australia
Soil Foodweb Institue Cambridge, New Zealand
Soil Foodweb Inc., Hilversum, The Netherlands
Laboratorios de Soil Foodweb, Culiacan, Mexico
Soil Foodweb Inc., Jerome, Idaho




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