What they don t tell you is that, even if you use sulfur coated or slow release formulations, they release too quickly. The worst part is you aren t improving the health of the soil. Furthermore, you lower the sugar level, which increases the chance of disease and insect infestation. And if you thought it could not get any worse, we haven t even touched on how this soluble fake fertilizer washes away easily and leeches out into our ground water, streams lakes and oceans. So those long gone nutrients aren t going to help your landscape anyway.
Lets talk about lack of organic matter and trace minerals.
Our soils are depleted of organic matter and trace minerals. With each crop that is harvested, organic matter and trace minerals are removed from the soil. Fake or synthetic fertilizers do little or nothing to replenish these departing materials. Most artificial fertilizers have no organic matter, humus, organic acids, microbes, or sugars. They also rarely contain any aluminum, boron, calcium, carbon, cobalt, copper, iodine, krypton, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, nickel, silicon, tin, titanium, zinc, or zirconium.