Living Soil
A Vital Ecosystem: The Benefits of Living Soil
Living soil is teeming with life, creating a dynamic ecosystem that benefits your plants in many ways. By cultivating a healthy soil environment, you can enjoy:
- Improved Nutrient Cycling: Nutrients created and stored in the soil will improve the ability for plants to absorb.
- Enhanced Soil Structure: Various organisms and compounds that boost soil aeration and water retention.
- Increased Biodiversity: A diverse soil ecosystem alive with beneficial organisms that can keep harmful organisms under control.
Maintaining Your Living Soil
Periodic soil maintenance is the key to ongoing success.
- Compost: Adds organic matter & beneficial microorganisms.
- Mulch: Protects soil surface, retains moisture, and gradually decomposes to further enrich the soil.
- Cover Crops: Improves soil structure, adds organic matter, and prevents erosion.
- Beneficial Organisms: Re-introducing beneficial organisms
on a seasonal basis as preventative care.
Add life to your top soil.
Red "Wiggler" Worms & Worm Castings:
Enhances soil structure through tunneling and the creation of worm castings. Worm castings are rich in nutrients and used by beneficial microbes to enhance soil health and fertility.
Beneficial Nematodes:
Targets the young life-stages of over 200 soil-dwelling pests such as grubs, fleas, fungus gnats, weevils, thrips, beetles, caterpillars, shoreflies, and many more.
Rove Beetle:
Targets fungus gnats, root aphids, shoreflies, spider mites, thrips, moth fly, springtails, root mealybugs, sow bugs, and many more.
Hypoaspis miles (Stratiolaelaps scimitus):
Targets fungus gnats, thrips, shoreflies, root mealybugs, springtails, and many more. Hypoaspis also targets mites such as poultry mites, snake mites, bulb mites, and many more.
BioChar:
BioChar gives value to biomass waste, helps capture and store carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and generates renewable energy. It is known for its porous structure, which enhances soil fertility, water retention, and nutrient availability.
Mycorrhizae:
Mycorrhizae enhances nutrition and water uptake in plants through a symbiotic relationship with their roots. This nutrient-rich blend increases root growth by up to 10 times, enhancing water and nutrient absorption. Help plants cope with environmental stresses like drought, extreme temperatures, and disease.
Worm Castings:
Worm castings have an immediate availability of nutrients in a form that is readily usable by plants. This fosters quick and direct improvements in soil fertility and plant health. The enhanced soil structure and increased nutrient availability in worm castings create favorable conditions for insects to thrive, contributing to a balanced and resilient soil ecosystem.
Compost Tea:
Compost tea enriches soil with beneficial microorganisms, enhances nutrient availability, and promotes plant growth. It suppresses soil-borne diseases by out-competing harmful pathogens, reducing the need for synthetic fertilizers and pesticides.
