Fertility rites
Healthy living soil and its micro-organisms — including beneficial bacteria and fungi — work with your plants’ roots to help make them more effective at drawing up soil moisture and nutrients.
This creates healthier, stronger and more pest-and disease-resistant plants in the long term.
The way to achieve this is by using the right kind of organic fertilisers and other inputs at the right times: before planting and during the growth period.
The addition of organic matter and other additives such as rock minerals will:
• Help to hold in soil moisture, meaning less watering
• Help improve soil structure and drainage
• Provide nutrition to soil microbes and plants
• Create a humus-rich, friable, healthy living soil
• Help reduce erosion
• Make
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