Fertilizers…Do We Need Them? In my experience with organic backyard gardening and farming, no, we really don’t. The concept of synthetic chemical fertilization of food crops is a modern construct, yet farming has existed successfully for thousands of years. Chemical fertilizers solved a need that was created by modern agriculture destroying the very land it needed to grow food. And this is an important distinction to make, because in the normal process of a plant deriving its nutrients from a healthy soil, additional inputs, chemical or organic, aren’t necessary.
It is the constant tilling, rotovating, and pesticide application that destroys the living layers of top soil that creates a void of nutrition and plant sustainability in land designated to grow food. In this video, I want to show you how to flick this switch and move to an approach where you feed and support the soil to in turn feed your plants. Chemicals need not apply!
If you are going to fertilize, consider making your own organic fertilizer from fermented weeds and the foliage of spend plants that should have been mulched back into the beds!: https://youtu.be/Lkc-bcgvr3U
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