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. All these and more of the 92 natural elements are provided or made available by organic fertilizers. One hundred percent of every bag of organic fertilizer consists of either mineral nutrients or organic matter and is totally beneficial to the soil and plants growing in it. Organic fertilizers help build new life in the soil. It stimulates the establishment of beneficial microbes that process food and nutrients through the roots of plants.