Continued use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides do nothing but destroy the naturally ocurring beneficial biological agents that support healthy turf and plants. When these biologicals are killed, it takes more and more expensive chemicals to do what they do for free. The more chems you use, the more microbes you kill, and your soil food web falls into an unsustainable death spiral.
How healthy is your soil? Perhaps you would consider adding beneficial biology as a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides. Kick the chemical habit! Compost and compost tea contains all the biology you need to start your turf on a path towards chemical independence.
How healthy is your soil? Perhaps you would consider adding beneficial biology as a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides. Kick the chemical habit! Compost and compost tea contains all the biology you need to start your turf on a path towards chemical independence.
How many creatures naturally exist in a single GRAM of healthy soil?
600 million bacterial individuals; 15,000 to
20,000 bacterial species
150 to 300 meters of fungal biomass; 5,000 to
10,000 fungal species
10,000 protozoa
20.30 beneficial nematodes: bacterial-feeding,
fungal-feeding, predatory
200,000 arthropods per square meter
That's a lot of valuable life forms in one gram of soil. Don't kill them. they are your friends.
That's a lot of valuable life forms in one gram of soil. Don't kill them. they are your friends.
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