Plants MUST Feed Naturally From Humus (and no that s not the tasty middle eastern dip!) To Be Tasty, Strong, Healthy, Pest And Disease Proof

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1 Plants MUST Feed Naturally From Humus (and no that s not the tasty middle eastern dip!) To Be Tasty, Strong, Healthy, Pest And Disease Proof Hi There! Chances are that you downloaded this report because you re interested in Compost or Organic growing! Unfortunately almost all compost methods aim for the totally wrong result and at best you end up with only good soil or mulch. At worst you end up with dangerous, smelly, pathogen laden goop that s harmful to you and your plants. Even most organic fertilizers feed plants the totally wrong way too, leading to poor tasting and unhealthy produce. Follow along with me as I show you why There are very few people on the entire planet who truly understand how plants actually feed (if given the chance). This is critical to our own continued existence too. Almost all fertilizers promote unhealthy growth of plants and as a result poor health of the animals and humans that consume them. Proper composting or soil management reverses this soil degrading situation. Stay with me and I ll show you how scientists along with agriculture and garden advisors have been trained into false ideas in a sheep like fashion.

2 I ll also tell you what we need to be doing to reverse the downward spiral of our unhealthy food chain and destruction of our farm and garden soils. Let Me Tell You How A Plant Feeds In A Totally Natural Environment The first person to understand and objectively describe this process was Alex Podolinsky, the head of the Australian Biodynamic Farmers organization and the world s foremost advisor on plant and soil health. In natural soils there is a substance called humus (no, not the middle eastern dip! That s spelled hommos) that is finely distributed through the soil. Humus is a rather unique substance. It looks like this in a big lump. It s also a colloid, which I ll tell you more about later, but for now just imagine little tiny bits of this stuff mixed all through the soil.

3 The humus contains the nutrients that a plant needs and it s available right when it s needed. Because as Alex described, a plant does not need food continually (just like us!) It sort of makes sense when you actually stop to think about it. Plants, unlike animals, get their warmth and energy direct from the sun. In a natural environment if the sun is NOT shining, the plant is NOT making new stuff in it s leaves and requires virtually no nutrients at that time. It is sort of sleeping. The Plant Only Requires Food When The Sun Shines and fires up it s metabolism. But a plant DOES need a supply of water all the time. In our natural situation the water in the soil is relatively pure. It s taken in by the plant continually and passed out through tiny holes in the leaves (called stomata, and more on these later!) into the air. The rate of water transpiration is dependant on lots of factors, like how hot it is for example and other things like wind strength. This transpiration happens day and night. Now if you look at plant roots (as a totality) and in a natural setting with keen observation, you will find that there are TWO different types of roots. Fine White Hair Roots For Feeding From The Humus And Thicker Fleshy Roots For Taking In Water This enables the plant to eat and drink independently! Here s a photo that shows what I mean.

It s just a grass taken from one of my garden

well. Here s a close-up of the feeder roots.

4 It s just a grass taken from one of my garden beds with most of the soil shaken off. Don t expect all plants to have as pronounced a difference as this, but this one shows it quite well. Here s a close-up of the feeder roots. And notice how the soil is sort of sucked onto these water intake roots!

5 OK, at this point you need to know a bit more about colloidal humus. A colloid is a kind of suspension of solid matter in a liquid. Things like jelly (jello) and butter are colloids. The main thing to take note of is that the solids and the liquid are held tightly together. Colloidal humus can be up to 75% water (although it seems quite solid) and has a rubbery pliable feel. The Living Complex Of Humus Holds The Plant Nutrients Tightly In The Structure And Most Importantly Is Hardly Soluble This allows plant nutrients to be stored in the humus of the soil and not be washed out by the water percolating through the soil. The soil water is also not contaminated by the plant nutrient. So we get the situation in a natural soil where we have a stored bank of plant nutrient and relatively pure water in the soil. Up to this point 99.9% scientists and experts have no clue The next point they do and use to our detriment. Plants do indeed take in nutrients in a soluble form (dissolved in water) The crucial point is that inside the structure of colloidal humus the nutrients are in fact in soluble form and can be extracted by the white hair feeder roots of the plant. But only when the sun is shining and the plant leaves are making new substance. So in effect with humus the plants have a safe larder full of nutrients that they have the key to and can get into and raid whenever they need to. And although scientists are of course fully across photosynthesis in plants and how it is driven by the sun, no one gets that the plant only feeds during sunshine. Hell, most growers and gardeners neglect the sun too. It s simple..no sun no growth.

6 Don t forget that! Now on to those holes in the leaves called stomata that I mentioned earlier. These holes have little lids on them that get opened when the plant is transpiring water out into the air. These holes also have a dual function. They let the sunlight into the active photosynthesis cells. If the plant is not transpiring water well then you get less photosynthesis happening. Stay With Me Here! Don t let those eyes glaze over! Why I m telling you this will become bleedingly obvious a little bit later on. Back to the story In our natural setting with enough warmth and the sun shining, the plant leaves are working away making new plant substance. The roots are extracting what it needs from the humus bank in the soil. All nutrients taken from the humus is converted into plant substance. When the sun goes down no more nutrient is needed so feeding stops. We have a plant that s all plant for want of a better description and there is no unused nutrient in there. I know it s obvious now but for the plant to make more cells it needs moist humus containing soil, enough warmth to rev the plant up and the sun to be shining.

7 Now Let s Talk About The Sad Way Fertilized Plants Exist Virtually all fertilizers are water soluble or become so in the soil. I don t care if it s a chemical blend or a so called organic fertilizer, they all become soluble in water to a high degree. We end up with plant nutrients dissolved in the soil water (insert the sinister violin music from Hitchcock s Psycho here!) The water that the plant drinks all the time. 24/7 whether the sun is shining or not. So as the plant takes on water it takes on nutrient. It Takes On Nutrient Whether It Can Use It Or Not Being a living organism, the plant sets about to adjust for the imbalance of nutrient in it s water intake by trying to dilute what s already there by taking on more water.i think you can see what s starting to happen here. In these plants we have free unused nutrients. The cells of the plant try to dilute this unnatural level by taking on and HOLDING more water. They get big and fat in the process. The result of this is a fat distended plant full of water with some Raw Fertilizer Dissolved In It s Juices Now imagine what this plant might taste like if it s a food plant! We ve diluted the flavor with water and added some things that don t taste the best (the raw fertilizer). That s only the first level of flavor destruction.

8 What also happens with our pumped up plant is that it tries to hang onto water to keep the nutrient levels from becoming even more concentrated. The plant slows it s transpiration of water via the leaves. Less of the little stomata windows are open. This means that less sunlight gets in to convert the plant nutrient into proper plant substance. It s more like a plant grown in partial shade. And of course with almost all food plants, good sun is necessary for good flavour and with the soil water fed plant we re taking away that flavorsome sun power. All the aromatic substances that give fine flavors are produced in less quantity simply because the plant hangs onto it s water. That s Only Half The Story! What happens to something that s too wet if you leave it that way? Yes, it goes mouldy or off. These plants have that tendency too. They are far, far more prone to fungal disease problems. These plants are also metabolically unbalanced which leads to greatly increased pest attack too. Insects And Pests Are Attracted To Unhealthy Plants Nature wants to remove them from the gene pool. Like all food cycles in nature the weak are the first to be taken out. Consequence??? Farmers and gardeners pour all sorts of poisons onto these plants to TRY and keep them looking like healthy plants. People then of course eat the unhealthy force fed but sick and malnourished plants complete with the poisons! Then in our markets and supermarkets more chemicals are applied to stop them from spoiling in storage and transport.

9 There s an economic incentive for farmers to grow this way too (although they are probably not too aware of it) You buy by weight or by volume NOT by flavour, taste, nutritional value, purity and keeping quality. Wine, some cheese and olives are the only things that come to mind where flavour and quality are used for pricing. Water is the heaviest cheapest easily available substance. You are paying for water and a few minerals shaped like a plant and We Are Falsely Conditioned To Think That Bigger Is Better Here s an example of some plain leaf parsley. The one on the left I bought from our local fruit and veg shop (I was making lots of tabouli salad for a gathering and didn t have enough of my home grown) The other on the right is my own home grown humus fed parsley.

10 Notice how the commercial leaf shape is distorted and distended to quite a large size, whereas the humus fed leaf is finely featured. The taste?? The bought parsley had a bland slightly bitter taste and was chewy. The humus fed parsley was sweeter, softer and had a wider palette of flavors and I would say nearly twice as much intensity. There s a color difference between humus fed and and soil water fed plants too. Actively growing humus fed plants have a healthy glowing green color. Those soil water fed have a darker more blue green color. Here s some grass growing in our yard

11 On the patch that s marked I put on some high nitrogen fertilizer. In hindsight I wish I had done it in another place as getting the same light conditions on both was a bit tricky, but I think you can easily see what I mean. The humus fed grass has a glowing yellow green. The artificially fed grass is a darker dull green because of less effective sun and the fact that there is free nutrient in the plant as well. Usually the humus fed plant is much more upright as well, while the soil water fed plant is droopy and heavy. To get healthy, vibrant, tasty and nutritious chemical free plants they simply have to be fed via the humus in the soil.

12 The Quickest Way To Get Large Amounts Of High Quality Humus Into Your Soil Is By Making Colloidal Humus Compost Almost all compost methods aim for the wrong result soil. Even if they worked as expected, the result is at best good soil. If the compost process has been poor (like in a typical tumbler) then you just end up with fibrous mulch which has little plant food value and has been a waste of your effort. I ve made some short videos showing you lots of things about colloidal humus compost and why the results of your garden will be far, far superior to what you can imagine. I m asking you to register to see these videos as I m not able to let everyone view them. You need to understand the humus thing first. So I m only letting them go to the people who actually want to see the results and are in the know about plant feeding like you are now. The other reason is that it takes quite a bit of web server power to distribute them to lots of people so I want to keep it small. So if you haven t already then just enter your details into the form at: to get the video links ed to you. Thanks for reading and taking the time to find out about the silent crisis that s facing your food supply and what the natural easy solution is. All the best Rod Turner

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