Improving Growing Methods
Understanding GROWERS GOLD Using Images...
Understanding GROWERS GOLD Using Images...
This picture shows organic matter can create very healthy soil
We must fix the soil to fix the growing, not just treat the symptoms
Feeding your soil organic matter has many valuable benefits
Exposed soil becomes unhealthy poor performing soil
Spraying root areas kills important soil life, its much better to mulch
Healthy growing = This whole area should be covered in organic matter
Soil Organic Matter builds quality valuable soil in many ways
1% increase in SOM over 1 hectare is worth over 100,000 pesos in nutrients and 60,000 litres in soil moisture storage capacity plus it feeds important soil life so it can perform many beneficial tasks.
Not adding organic matter to surface led to this eggplant crop to fail
Vital organic matter is lost through digging
Direct drilled fields into flattened cover crops rejuvenates soil health
Tilling a field looses soil to wind & soil life/organic matter to oxidation
Its very damaging and unnatural to leave soils exposed to weather
Hand weeding becomes easy with softer soil with GROWERS GOLD
Hand weeding before unwanted weeds take to seed
Pest traps attract pests and trap them
Create habit that naturally host predictors of pests
Orius feeding on aphids which attack plants
Lady bug eating aphids
Cover crop diversity restores ecological memory and soil health
Improvement of crop yield through Gliricidia green leaf manuring
Corn and legume for nitrogen
3 Sisters Inter-crop: Corn, Beans grows up corn also provide nitrogen and Squash (Pumpkin) to keep down weeds by covering the ground
Cover crop combination of crimson, rye, vetch
Inter-planting carrots and radishes to maximise space and timing.
Planted through a rolled cover crop , no weeds, plenty of organic matter
Finger millet & sugarcane, a bio-dynamic farm, India
Burning destroys crop litter layer and diminishes soil organic matter
Burning of rice straw is lost organic matter, best to return it to your soil
Farmer Quotes...
“The microbes are at the forefront of everything we do here,” said Jen.
“It’s not about what we put on the soil, it’s about how we care for the soil.”