Organic nutrients
Why the
Food for everyone's foundations Natural Mineral Nutrients
are the Perfect Solution For Your Garden
Intro.
My first year with the Foundations method has been an outstanding success.
There are two keys correct grow bed or grow box setup and
proper use of the Foundations organic nutrients. Yes ladies and gentlemen
its that simple.
Every garden, whether it’s organic, hydroponic, or
something in between, must provide the same natural minerals for plants to be
healthy. And since our goal
is to have healthy plants, so that we can be healthy by eating them, let’s
find out exactly what our plants need.
All plants require sixteen elements for healthy growth.
They receive three of those elements from the air, namely oxygen,
hydrogen, and carbon. Air has
inexhaustible amounts of those three elements, so all we need to do is make sure
our plants have air, and these 3 will be supplied.
Your plants must
receive the other 13 elements as
water-soluble minerals through their roots. They use large amounts of nitrogen,
phosphorus, and potassium, and these three nutrients are therefore called
the major or macro-nutrients.
They go by the letters N, P, and K, and the numbers that are printed on all fertilizer bags
include the percentages of those three nutrients.
Examples are 16-16-16, which is often used in gardens, and 25-3-2, which is commonly used on lawns.
Plants also use large amounts of three other elements including calcium,
sulfur, and magnesium, but not quite as much as the macro-nutrients, so
these are called secondary
nutrients. Because most people
don’t realize the importance of these three elements, they are often not
included when feeding the garden, and their plants look sick and don’t produce
well.
The other seven
elements required for healthy plants include zinc, boron, manganese, iron,
copper, chloride, and molybdenum. Because
the required amounts of each of these are small they are
called trace elements or micro-nutrients.
However, just because plants only need small amounts of these 7 minerals,
they cannot be ignored! For example, a deficiency of just 4 pounds of boron per acre
of land will cause crop failure, and the same holds true for every one of the
other essential elements – just with differing amounts.
Now, here’s the
problem. You will almost NEVER
see a bag of fertilizer in the stores that includes all of the above essential
minerals – not even the famous “complete” fertilizers (that will go
unnamed). Why is that, when all the
minerals are necessary?!
I suggest there are four reasons you haven’t been able to
buy that “perfect” nutrient mix:
1) People have
never been taught the importance of having all 13 nutrients in their soil.
2) Most people
figure that the minerals are already in the soil. And this is true to a degree, but many thousands of years of
rain, snow, wind, and cropping have removed most of the WATER SOLUBLE minerals
from most soils all around the world.
3) No one has
had the knowledge or experience to produce a universal nutrient mix.
4) Stores would
rather sell several kinds of things – each to do a specific job – rather
than packaging everything in one simple mix that will take care of every plant
in your yard.
The Mittleider Magic natural mineral nutrients.
Jacob Mittleider was a highly successful California commercial nurseryman
for 20 years. He was so smart, hard
working, and dedicated to learning, keeping accurate records, and selling the
healthiest plants possible, that he had customers all over the country.
He also earned 11 plant patents, and became wealthy.
But there was a cost.
Losing most of his stomach to ulcers in the process, Jacob decided to
spend the time he had left doing good. And
God blessed him with a lot more time! For
the next 40 years he devoted his great experience and prodigious talents to
learning, and then teaching and demonstrating the very best methods of family
gardening, and he did it in 27 countries all around the world.
After millions of field trials in thousands of gardens -
his own and those of his students - Jacob perfected a natural mineral nutrient
fertilizer mix that promises you “a great garden in any soil, and in almost
any climate.”
It works great, not only in any type of soil, but with
virtually any type of plant! And you
do not have to amend your soil whatsoever, to have that great garden!
But what about
manure & compost! Can’t
they produce good gardens? Sometimes
they do indeed, but you never know what you have in those.
They always contain much less of the essential nutrients than the
original plants had, because the animals got some and leaching removed much of
what was left.
Also, weed seeds, bugs, and diseases are commonly
introduced into people’s gardens in the manure and compost they spread on
them.
Our experience all around the world gives solid evidence
that small amounts of natural mineral nutrients, in exactly the percentages
plants need them, give much more consistent results than manure and compost.
Are we in it for the
money? If the Foundation was
trying to make lots of money on this admittedly wonderful fertilizer, would we
provide the formulas for both the Pre-Plant Mix and Weekly Feed Mix right on the
www.foodforeveryone.org website in
the Learn section? Would we provide
the formulas in the Mittleider gardening books?
The answer is obvious, and we help serious growers all over
the world mix their own fertilizers, so they can get them as inexpensively as
possible.
For the backyard gardener, however, it is often easier,
better, and even less costly to buy the Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed already mixed.
For those of you who fit this situation we try and provide a source where
you can get exactly what you need.
We provide small packages of the organic
gardening nutrients, for those of
you who are container gardeners and organic gardeners. You will save much time, effort, and even money.
Purchase
the digital Books and Manuals.
Testimonial
Farmers are amazed at the sizable yields that can be gained
from the use of just one fertilizer as opposed to the two and three different
types of fertilizers that are traditionally used."
Padmore Clarke
Goldsborough, Tobago
Additional resources
www.cfyn.ifas.ufl.edu
www.nbii.gov
