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. There are quite a few manufactured choices that have no smell and are easy to spread with your common spreaders. These are Malcum Beck s Garden Ville Soil Food, Maestro-Gro, Sustane, and Green Sense. There are more choices coming on the market all the time. Coming soon Lava sand, Granite sand, and Living Earth compost in bulk.