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The technique is usually discussed as a natural fertiliser or foliar feed. The particular emphasis is the tiny traces of molybdenum, manganese, boron etc. which are necessary for plant health.
That is absolutely correct but I think too limited. The plant isolated in a sterile environment supplied with nutrients is not very interesting.
My aim was to add missing nutrients and an inoculum of new microbes, to kick start changes in the soil ecology. Change the balance of the bacteria and you shift the protozoans, the fungi, the tiny invertebrates, the bigger invertebrates and in principle you can change the ecology and physical nature of the soil fundamentally. Nutrient release, organic content, aeration, acidity etc. Each of which then cascades.
#gardening #soil #soilecology
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