Transitioning to Organic Growth
Go organic now. Stop poisoning your soil and expecting healthy results.
It’s become obvious that an industrially processed, synthetic diet isn’t healthy. You don’t expect children to grow to their potential on Ho-Hos and Kool-Aid. Horticulture demands the same understanding. Forget the lies that have been sold since industry starting selling petro-fertilizers. They pull oil out of the Earth, process it into chemicals that pollute the soil and disrupt the natural order.
Ask yourself how mankind was able to survive for thousands of years without NPK fertilizers. Or ask how a lush rainforest orchid or fern can thrive — without a drop of fertilizer or pesticide spray.
Mother Nature has incredibly effective inherent powers, but we have to ignore shelves filled with synthetic products—and disregard decades of chemical marketing.
She relies on soil rich with a thriving bioweb — billions of tiny little nutrient factories called microbes. These are the same kind of critters that change dead vegetation into compost, sour milk into cheese and grape juice into wine. Balanced, healthy soil is crawling with millions of bacteria, fungi, protozoa and more.
Chemical fertilizers give your plants a quick jolt—like giving a starving person coffee with six lumps of sugar. After the fast buzz, the plant is left in more distress, susceptible to disease and vulnerable to attack by predators. Your chemical fertilizer company will happily sell toxic pesticides to “correct” the imbalance and finish killing off the life left in the soil. It’s an ideal system for profit, but a deathly equation for natural plant health.
The transition to organic is easy.
If you have have clean, natural soil just add 20% organic compost and apply Full Circle Plant and Soil Food, at two ounces per gallon. The microbes and humus in compost activate the soil’s amazingly complex bioweb of micro- creatures. Your soil should crumble easily and you should be able to push a trowel through the soil without resistance. There are lots of organic supplements and foods that can build your soil’s health. My favorites are cottonseed meal and kelp, but you should choose organic amendments that break down to give your crops the best support while encouraging healthy growth below the surface. An inexpensive soil test will help determine deficiencies, pH and general soil health.
If you’ve been using chemical fertilizers, don’t ask your plants to survive a cold turkey treatment. You’ll have to build up the soil health as you taper off the chemical nutrition. Cut the chemical feeding in half as you introduce organic nutrition from a balanced, high-quality product like Full Circle Plant and Soil Food, at four ounces per gallon dilution. After four weeks, top-dress the soil with compost, and apply Full Circle at two ounces per gallon. Then taper off the chemical products to quarter-strength, and feed the soil with Full Circle at one ounce per gallon. As you replace the junk-food NPK chemicals with the soil web’s natural micro-nutrients, you’ll see new growth, vigor and health.
That’s it folks...I whole-heartedly recommend Full Circle Plant and Soil Food. I have used it for over 10 years in greenhouses, gardens, farms and yards. It might seem expensive— but not when you mix it right and consider how far a gallon goes. And remember, it’s soil food. When the health of your soil is stimulated, the natural life cycle of microbes produces micro-doses of nutrition constantly.
The sooner you go organic, the sooner you can enjoy the benefits of healthy wellness. And that’s my very best wish for you and for our home planet.
Steve Wortinger
Organic farmer, Certified Arborist, Inventor, Full Circle Soil and Plant Food
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