Quality compost is a valuable and versatile soil amendment for today's horticultural industry and turfgrass industries.
Microbes are an integral link in the food chain and natural defense system of plant material.
A lack of microbes in the soil profile reduces the efficient uptake of nutrients by the plant and allows soil borne pathogens access to the root system. A teaspoon of healthy soil or compost can have millions of bacteria, miles of fungi and hundreds of thousand of protozoa and hundreds of beneficial nematodes. Each of these living organisms is also comprised of multiple species creating a diversity of life in the soil. Each group serves a function in metabolizing nutrients and suppressing soil borne pathogens. Plant material is designed to feed the microbes in the soil developing a diverse biomass to metabolize nutrients and defend the root system from pathogens.