Fertilize Without Synthetic Chemicals

You CAN – Protect your property value
You CAN – Have a beautiful landscape
You CAN do this without polluting and contaminating your local groundwater and streams!  

Through run-off, whether via rainfall or irrigation, and deep percolation – the chemicals you use on your landscape will end up in the local groundwater.

STOP using landscape products that have synthetic chemicals in them!  Many of these leave salts that are toxic, and are very destructive to naturally occurring soil organisms that are highly beneficial.

A healthy soil has organisms that can out compete potential diseases and pests.  They compete by consuming the pest, producing antibiotics that inhibit them, and they compete for nutrients and space.

See our short articles on “Living Soil”, and “Bio-diversity”, for EASY ways to do the right thing for the environment while having green grass, beautiful flowers and no weeds!

For more in-depth information, see our Links page for USDA/NRCS and Soil and Water Conservation Society reference materials that will build your knowledge on these Essentials!

Soil Biology Articles • Posted on 02/23/2009   •  (1) Comments • Permalink

Soil Building – Improve Water Infiltration and Soil Water Holding Capacity.

Building healthy living soils that have a broad range of living micro organisms will lead to a beautiful landscape, with out the use of synthetic chemicals that potentially migrate into the local water supply!  Here are key how-tos…

Use Compost and Compost Tea

The benefits of compost and compost tea to soil building and thereby creating a vibrant, healthy garden cannot be overestimated.   Adding compost and compost tea to your landscape are the simplest and arguably the best thing you can do for your landscape!  They promote the beneficial bacteria, fungi*, protozoa, and other organisms that comprise a biologically diverse system that can out compete pests of all types. 

For a greater understanding on the extensive benefits of compost tea, click on the comprehensive article first appearing in “Fine Gardening”, by the noted expert on the soil food web – Dr. Elaine R. Ingham, Oregon State University.

Additional compost tea article.

Soil Biology Articles • Posted on 02/23/2009   •  (2) Comments • Permalink