Is your garden’s soil like a forest full of squirrels?
A forest with only squirrels is not a healthy forest!
Just as a healthy forest needs foxes, owls, bobcats, and snakes, healthy soil needs a balanced diversity of microbes
Healthy garden plants require healthy soil. Unfortunately most organic garden soils are about 95 % bacteria. This is because most commercial composts are also 95% bacteria. Most organic gardeners also add excessive amounts of nitrogen to their soils. Continually adding bacterial foods and poor compost to your garden perpetually re-creates unhealthy soil. This causes many problems for your plants, for you the gardener, and for our planet earth.
PROBLEMS OF BACTERIAL SOILS
Weeds love bacterial soils.
More work for you. less food for your plants
Pests and soil pathogens love bacterial soils.
Flea beetles, aphids, powdery mildew, etc. etc. etc. the list is endless.
Plant nutrition suffers
Plants are not strong enough to defend themselves from disease.
The earth suffers
Stable soil carbon is not sequestered. Bacteria blows off CO2.
BENEFITS OF HEALTHY SOIL
Weeds don’t grow as much
If they do grow a little, they will be sickly and not take soil nutrients from your vegetables
Pests and soil pathogen have no place
Healthy soil produces plants with strong immune systems.
Such plants naturally and effectively repel insects and soil pathogens of all kinds.
Plant nutrition is abundant
When plants are healthy they nourish your life.
Healthy vegetables mean better flavor and more vitamins and nutrients for you and your family.
Healthy soils are good for the planet.
Healthy soil contains lots of beneficial fungi.
Soil fungi will turn your vegetable garden into a carbon sink instead of a source of CO2 pollution.
HOW LIVING SOIL COMPANY CAN HELP
First We Test
We conduct a thorough microscopic analysis of your soil’s microbial biomass
Then We Inoculate
Once we have a picture of your particular soil’s health, we then add the necessary microbes which will restore balance to your soil’s ecosystem. We do this by extracting soil organisms from our specially made compost. We make compost that is ecologically complete. It is not bacterially dominated and contains healthy numbers of fungi, protozoans, and nematodes, as well as beneficial bacteria.
These applications take the form of soil drenches and sprayed teas.
We Repeat the Process
We will repeat the process of testing and inoculating until your soil has reached the optimum ratios of soil organisms for your particular crop or crops.
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