3 things missing from every popular fertilizer:
- Carbon
- Microbes
- Trace minerals
3 gardening tips that every farmer knows … and you should too!
Carbon Cycle.
The most influential element that effects plant productivity is carbon in the garden soil. The carbon cycle describes the exchange of carbon between living organisms and the environment. Plants directly use carbon from the atmosphere, in the form of carbon dioxide, for photosynthesis. Plants also benefit by the indirect utilization of carbon by soil microorganisms from soil organic matter.
Each season more carbon is depleted from the soil and is not added back by application of chemical fertilizers, since they do not contain carbon. WIth low carbon in soil, it quickly becomes tired and its fertility declines.
The high concentration of carbon in Great Big Plants replenishes the carbon in soil more easily than traditional garden compost. Great Big Plants' liquid formulation carries the carbon directly to where it's needed - the plant's root zone. The specially selected carbon-releasing microbes accelerate the carbon cycle to your plant's benefit.
Nitrogen Cycle.
The growth of all organisms depends on the availability of nutrients - and none of the nutrients plants need is more important than nitrogen, an essential building block in plants.
Nitrogen is difficult to absorb by plants because of the binding structure of its atoms. It is estimated that 40% of all chemical nitrogen fertilizer additions are never used by plants. This is not the case with Great Big Plants Organic Plant Food.
Microorganisms have a central role in almost all aspects of nitrogen availability. Some bacteria convert nitrogen into ammonium by the process called nitrogen fixation; other bacteria bring about transformations of ammonium to nitrate, and of nitrate to nitrogen and other nitrogen gases; many bacteria and fungi degrade organic matter, releasing nitrogen for reuse by other organisms.
Bottom line... the microbes in Great Big Plants organic plant food facilitate the nitrogen cycle by transforming nitrogen into a form your plants can efficiently use. Great Big Plants as a soil amendment can pack your soil with the missing, yet necessary minerals and nutrients plants need to grow healthy, big, and strong.
Law of the Minimum.
“Growth is proportional to the amount of the most limiting nutrient, whichever nutrient it may be. Likewise a plant's growth is restricted by the lack of a single element, even though there may be sufficient quantities of all other essential nutrients." -- Justus von Liebig (1803 - 1873)
This historic principle compares the growth of a plant with the amount of water a barrel can hold, where the boards of the barrel equal the essential nutrients plants need. The barrel can be filled up only as high as the shortest board allows. Repair the too-short boards - that is, add the essential nutrients plants need back into the soil - and the plants can grow to their maximum potential.
Great Big Plants Organic Plant Food compost protects your plants against the Law of the Minimum by adding back into your soil the major nutrients plants need, micronutrients and rare earths that your plants need for maximum growth.