The foundation for a successful home garden and commercial farm is healthy soil. It is more important than ever to keep our soil productive and healthy. Improving organic matter with black worm castings, Vermaplex, and other organic soil amendments, can reduce costs, while increasing yields of chemical free produce.
“Healthy soil is alive with billions of bacteria, fungi and other microbes that are the foundation of an elegant symbiotic ecosystem. In fact, there are more living organisms in one teaspoon of healthy soil than there are people on Earth,” Earth Day News from Bowling Green Times.
“Healthy soils reduce production costs and improve profits for farmers, but they also protect natural resources on and off the farm,” said State Conservationist J.R.Flores with the Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Healthy soil can increase yields in both home gardens and farms. This is both important for those families who grow their own vegetables and our farm lands who supply food to our world population, which is expected to grow to 9 million people by the wary 2050.
“What a lot of people don’t realize is that healthy soils hold more water for use by plants,” Flores said. “The soil’s water-holding capacity reduces runoff that can cause flooding and it increases the availability of water to plants during droughts. It also prevents manure, chemical fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides from washing with the soil into lakes, rivers and streams. Groundwater is also protected because there is less leaching.”
Healthy Soil is Easy with Organic Black Worm Castings
Short term benefits of black castings include adding an incredibly high amount of microorganisms which naturally protect the plant’s leaves and roots from foreign pathogens, stimulate plant growth and suppress disease. Enhances germination and crop yield.
Long term benefits of black castings include, depleted soil is rebuilt with microbial life, a crucial step to nutrient recycling, without burning the roots of your plants.
The end product is a great investment, an amazingly fertile organic fertilizer, teeming with living soil microorganisms and micronutrients essential for plant development and soil improvement.
Vermitechnology’s black worm castings and soil amendments are of the highest quality and very affordable! Contact us today for more information and don’t forget to shop at our on-line store.