Organic nutrients
Why the Food for everyone's foundations Natural Mineral Nutrients are the Perfect Solution For Your Garden. My first year with the Foundations method has been an outstanding success. There are two keys correct grow bed or grow box setup and proper use of the Foundations organic nutrients. Yes, ladies and gentlemen its that simple.
Every garden, whether it’s organic, hydroponic, or something in between, must provide the same natural minerals for plants to be healthy. And since our goal is to have healthy plants, so that we can be healthy by eating them, let’s find out exactly what our plants need.
All plants require sixteen elements for healthy growth. They receive three of those elements from the air, namely oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon. Air has inexhaustible amounts of those three elements, so all we need to do is make sure our plants have air, and these 3 will be supplied.
Your plants must receive the other 13 elements as water-soluble minerals through their roots. They use large amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and these three nutrients are therefore called the major or macro-nutrients. They go by the letters N, P, and K, and the numbers that are printed on all fertilizer bags include the percentages of those three nutrients. Examples are 16-16-16, which is often used in gardens, and 25-3-2, which is commonly used on lawns.
Plants also use large amounts of three other elements including calcium, sulfur, and magnesium, but not quite as much as the macro-nutrients, so these are called secondary nutrients. Because most people don’t realize the importance of these three elements, they are often not included when feeding the garden, and their plants look sick and don’t produce well.
The other seven elements required for healthy plants include zinc, boron, manganese, iron, copper, chloride, and molybdenum. Because the required amounts of each of these are small they are called trace elements or micro-nutrients. However, just because plants only need small amounts of these 7 minerals, they cannot be ignored! For example, a deficiency of just 4 pounds of boron per acre of land will cause crop failure, and the same holds true for every one of the other essential elements – just with differing amounts.
Now, here’s the problem. You will almost NEVER see a bag of fertilizer in the stores that include all of the above essential minerals – not even the famous “complete” fertilizers (that will go unnamed). Why is that, when all the minerals are necessary?!
I suggest there are four reasons you haven’t been able to buy that “perfect” nutrient mix:
- People have never been taught the importance of having all 13 nutrients in their soil.
- Most people figure that the minerals are already in the soil. And this is true to a degree, but many thousands of years of rain, snow, wind, and cropping have removed most of the WATER SOLUBLE minerals from most soils all around the world.
- No one has had the knowledge or experience to produce a universal nutrient mix.
- Stores would rather sell several kinds of things – each to do a specific job – rather than packaging everything in one simple mix that will take care of every plant in your yard.
The Mittleider Magic natural mineral nutrients. Jacob Mittleider was a highly successful California commercial nurseryman for 20 years. He was so smart, hard-working, and dedicated to learning, keeping accurate records, and selling the healthiest plants possible, that he had customers all over the country. He also earned 11 plant patents and became wealthy.
But there was a cost. Losing most of his stomach to ulcers in the process, Jacob decided to spend the time he had left doing good. And God blessed him with a lot more time! For the next 40 years, he devoted his great experience and prodigious talents to learning and then teaching and demonstrating the very best methods of family gardening, and he did it in 27 countries all around the world.
After millions of field trials in thousands of gardens - his own and those of his students - Jacob perfected a natural mineral nutrient fertilizer mix that promises you “a great garden in any soil, and in almost any climate.” It works great, not only in any type of soil but with virtually any type of plant! And you do not have to amend your soil whatsoever, to have that great garden!
But what about manure & compost! Can’t they produce good gardens? Sometimes they do indeed, but you never know what you have in those. They always contain much less of the essential nutrients than the original plants had because the animals got some and leaching removed much of what was left.
Also, weed seeds, bugs, and diseases are commonly introduced into people’s gardens in the manure and compost they spread on them. Our experience all around the world gives solid evidence that small amounts of natural mineral nutrients, in exactly the percentages plants, need them, give much more consistent results than manure and compost.
Are we in it for the money? If the Foundation was trying to make lots of money on this admittedly wonderful fertilizer, would we provide the formulas for both the Pre-Plant Mix and Weekly Feed Mix right on the www.foodforeveryone.org website in the Learn section? Would we provide the formulas in the Mittleider gardening books?
The answer is obvious, and we help serious growers all over the world mix their own fertilizers, so they can get them as inexpensively as possible. For the backyard gardener, however, it is often easier, better, and even less costly to buy the Pre-Plant and Weekly Feed already mixed. For those of you who fit this situation, we try and provide a source where you can get exactly what you need.
We provide small packages of organic gardening nutrients, for those of you who are container gardeners and organic gardeners. You will save much time, effort, and even money.
