Microorganisms and plant nutrition, my discovery

Why do some stuff with your plants with mineral fertilizers, while others despise them all, and we all grow vegetables and fruit? It seemed to me that I know the answer: because the substance is introduced into the soil for plant nutrition. And in the forest feeds litter of leaves and branches.

Felt that something bad way in my view that. Yes, I understand that there are air powered, and play an important role micro-organisms, humus. After simple calculations, I realized that I did not know how to know.

Now, in order.

There textbook experience Van Helmont

• Planted a willow twig, her weight was 5 pounds
• Weighed carefully dried the ground for it, £ 200
• Watered only rainwater or distilled water, seating capacity is closed, so that no impurity was not hit.
• After 5 years of willow put on weight 164 lbs
• A soil mass has decreased by only 2 ounces (about 60 grams)

Experience shows that air power has played a leading role. 60 g of mineral substances from soil willow eaten for 5 years. Amazing!

About fertilizers

First was for a table of the removal of essential nutrients from the soil. Just stupid of the two printed reputable sources. This "Agrochemicals" A. IN. Petersburg. (Agrochemicals, Publishing House "Kolos", Moscow 1975) and "Encyclopedia of Gardening" S. G. Bekseeva (publ Dilya, St. Petersburg, 1998)

Where the two digits in the column, different information sources. Calcium is added to the table, because my tomatiki every season saying that it is not enough.

Look at what happened, this is the table turned my understanding of plant nutrition. I think many will come in handy.

What to do with these figures? Count.

Let's say I want to grow in your greenhouse, only 300 kg of tomatoes. It is 5 kg per bush, the plant I have 60. This means that 990 g of tomatoes vynesut nitrogen and 2850 g of calcium. This is about 7.2 kg calcium nitrate. Every year! And potassium and phosphorus, and other elements. I did not bring so much! Where the harvest?

If I fertilize with fresh chicken manure (diluted!), It is a maximum 2.5% of nitrogen. I 300 kg of tomatoes nitrogen should be 990 This 39.6 kg of pure manure. Manure substantially any more there is less nitrogen. It would be possible, but I did not bring much. What eat tomatoes? According to the analysis I have a nitrogen deficiency in the soil.

And what was fed willow Van Helmont? In addition to air? 60 g minerals for 5 years, how?

By the method of hydroponic (water-fertilizer solution) and Mittlayderu (with lots of fertilizer), still somehow working principle: how much to put fertilizer, so get the harvest. Although the hydroponically already being used microorganisms.

But no one in the garden as fertilizer is not pours, pours, do not put, any organic or in inorganic form. Where do my 5-13 kg per bush tomatoes and other crops bucket?

So that's where

I realized how much I do for microorganisms. I underestimated their role. Although Lila biologics in the soil with beneficial bacteria and fungi, as only possible on the steps, and she was preparing solutions.

A miracle with my crops and the miracle of the willow can only be explained by the participation of microorganisms. As the soil and in the air.

For example, nitrogen fixing bacteria make available to the plant nitrogen from the air. I even bought them this year (azoles) and watered their tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers..

All hard in plant nutrition, one thing is clear: you do not want roach and bags to make fertilizer, love the earth. Then there will be fertile.

I will feed the ground with hay and a little mineral fertilizers. And, of course, to make useful microorganisms.

What do you think about this? How to deal with fertilizers?

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