Thu, 10 Sep 2009

Fall Feeding
This week I started doing some fall fertilizing and supplementing. Depending on the yard, I use a slow-release organic granular fertilizer and a soil activator to water it in. Yesturday I worked in a yard that previously had been treated using non-organic methods. If you want to convert a non-organic yard over to organics, it's important to get a soil test first. Her soil test showed her yard was over fertilized- something I have never seen in AUstin. i was surprized. So I have been using compost tea, worm castings and soil activators like terra tonic and medina soil activator to get some microbes back in the soil. my belief is that chemical fertilizers kill the microbes in the soil and destroy the soil texture. so adding some microbes back in is crucial. the problem with this yard is that she has over fertilized, so I wanted to avoid using compost because it can throw the nutrient balance even further out of whack. so these other produccts can add microbes without adding more nutrients.

posted at: 09:18 | path: /colleen0605 | link for this entry

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