Gardening with Enhanced Organic Methods
Using BioVam Mycorrhiza

These methods will help you achieve the following benefits:

• Increased yields.
• Higher levels of plant health.
• Higher plant quality and nutrition levels.
• Plants that mature earlier and produce longer.
• Plants that have a different look when they go dormant because of increased health.
• Increased plant resistance to insect pests, diseases, and environmental stresses.
• Significantly increased competition with weeds to the point of starving them out because they can’t get the nutrients they need.
• Increased flow of oxygen to soil microorganisms.
• Decreased requirement for water up to 50%.
• Provides for low soil maintenance.
• Requires less work and frees up more time for you to enjoy gardening at a lower cost.

You will reap these benefits from your new organic garden in its first year. One feature that makes this type of garden so effective is the growing areas are in raised beds, with walkways around or in-between them. Whether using squared growing beds or in rows, you should be able to easily reach its center from any side. It’s important to avoid walking in the growing areas to avoid compacting the soil. This helps in maintaining your beds, and results in a garden you will no longer have to till or spade up. You will be adding organic material as your main method of maintenance.

Goal: Establish a deep sandy soil, which contains organic material. It needs to drain quickly yet retain moisture. This kind of soil mix allows the ground to "breathe" so the soil microorganisms have better access to air and moisture without being saturated with water.

If your soil remains loose through the season (if you can easily make a hole in it with your hand), and if water drains through quickly and evenly, leaving the soil moist but not saturated with water, then you probably don’t need to do this step. If you have any doubts, go ahead and do this step just to be safe. This is very important.

Procedure: Spread sand 6 inches deep on top of your garden area. Either buy it as delivered bulk, or buy it in bags. A cubic yard of sand is three feet wide by three feet long and three feet high and contains 6 layers that are 6 inches thick. Each layer will cover 9 square feet for a total of 54 square feet. Measure your garden area then calculate the square footage (length x width) and divide by 54. This will tell you how many cubic yards of sand you will need. It’s very important to find out where the sand is coming from! Sand from rivers or areas where agricultural chemicals may have washed into the sand can inhibit organic growing with Mycorrhiza. Its important to get the sand evenly mixed into the top 12 inches of your garden beds. Power tilling is the best method to mix the sand evenly with your soil. Spading will work, if you are feeling energetic.

Procedure: Mix the compost into the top 10 inches of your soil. Most of the soil microorganisms live in this top 10 inches of soil. Do this two to three weeks in advance of planting your garden so the microorganisms have a chance to break down the compost, enriching the soil for your plants.

Goal: Add a good organic fertilizer with trace elements to your garden beds.

Procedure: Add Biosol 6-1-3 or 7-2-5 Organic Fertilizer at 1 lb per 70 square feet and mix into the top 6 inches of your soil. This fertilizer does not have salts in it. It contains organic material and trace elements.

For seeds: Clear an area in the mulch about 6 inches wide. Open up a row in the soil for the seeds you want to plant. Drop 1/8 teaspoon of BioVam down per seed with seed on top. Cover the seeds with soil as recommended on the seed package. Don’t put the mulch back over those seeds before they sprout. After the plants are up, move the mulch closer to the plants without covering them.

For transplants:Clear a six-inch square area and dig a hole just big enough for the root ball of the plant. Sprinkle ½ teaspoon of BioVam Mycorrhiza around the sides and into the bottom of the hole and on the moist root ball of the plant. Set the plant in place. Move the side soil of the hole to the root ball. It is important to have the Mycorrhiza in contact with the plant roots. Excess soil from digging the hole can be spread evenly on the top.

Step six –

Goal: Add additional mulch and fertilizer as needed during the growing season. The worm population will greatly increase, as will the soil microorganisms. It will surprise you how fast they can consume the mulch!

Procedure: Do not mix any more fertilizer into the soil during the growing season. Do not disturb the soil because in doing so you will break up the Mycorrhiza hyphe which are attached to and are an extension of the roots of your plants. When you add mulch to the garden, add 1 pound of Biosol 6-1-3 or 7-2-5 fertilizer per 70 square feet with that mulch. Optionally, use a mild foliar spray once a month on the leaves of the plants. Cover both sides of the leaves. Apply the foliar spray during the time of day when it is cooler.

Monitor your plants for problems. Hand pick any destructive bugs off your plants or wash them off with water. You should never have to apply poisons to plants that are grown as outlined above. Their level of health will simply not attract most bugs. If you need to deal with pesky insects in the soil, try diatomaceous earth. If the insects are on the plants, use Ivory soap mixed with water and spray it on the plants and bugs. Do not use detergent soaps with degreasers because they will harm your plants.

Insects may be present, but if they are not harming your plants, you don’t need to worry about them. Many insects are beneficial and aid in pollinating plants. Don’t be too quick to kill off those insects!

Enjoying your new organic garden.

Once your organic Mycorrhiza garden is established and you’re practiced at maintaining it, your neighbors will be wondering why you have a lot more time available – and be saying, "why aren’t they slaving away in their garden like us?"

You won’t have a lot of weeds to pull because many weeds don’t like to grow where Mycorrhizae are plentiful. The few weeds that do grow in your garden will easily pull out of the soil because the soil stays loose and moist.

Your biggest problem will be deciding what to do with the quantities of produce your plants are growing! You’ll find that your plants will produce a lot more in the same space, and that everything tastes so much better than before. If you are growing tomatoes get some 7 foot metal fence posts to hold the plants up! Standard wire frame tomato cages will collapse under the weight of those heavy-laden tomato plants grown with Mycorrhiza!

You can have peace of mind knowing our products will not introduce toxins into the soil, your plants or the fruits they produce for you and your family. That is something you just can’t be sure of with the use of insecticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers. Using our procedures organic garden will only improve through the years. With your Mycorrhiza garden you have created a full circle growing environment where everything is healthier and more productive. Including you and your family.

These methods have been in use in our family since 1947 and have resulted in award winning fruits and vegetables at the local county fair. We have enhanced these methods to conform to the application and maintenance of Mycorrhiza, creating a garden which produces fruits and vegetables which are superior in health and quality.

Happy organic gardening with BioVam Biotic - Mycorrhiza and Biosol Organic fertilizer!

Natural Organic Products that Work!

Our Affordable Gardening Supply Products, which we call Natures Own Growing System, include Product Brochures, BioVam Mycorrhiza, Biosol Mix 7-2-3 Organic Fertilizer, Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer, Yucca Extract, Microbe Tea Brewing Kits, Pre-Brewed Microbe Tea, Bio-Peat moss and mushroom compost, Zeolite, Organic White Gold Bar Soaps, Just Like Sugar Natural Sweetener, and Spider Elimination Kits (spider traps). Most of these products are used to grow high brix plants which are high in plant nutrients (mineral and vitamin) content.

People interested in these products are back yard gardeners, farmers, farm crop management, flower growers, home and garden supply companies, house plant growers, landscapers, lawn care companies, plant nursery owners, organic farming, organic gardening, urban gardeners, and those who wish to pursue container gardening methods. Those interested in bettering their diets and health use our products to grow highly nutritious foods. 

The application of these products supports agriculture soil in general but has many specific applications on this web site for arborvitae, artichokes and asparagus, apple trees, asparagus fern, black leaf fungus on quaking aspen trees, bulbs and flowers, cactus, celery, chard, chrysanthemum, citrus trees, cotton, cosmos, cucumbers, eggplants, fairy rings in lawns, frost protection on Asian pear fruit trees, garlic, growing fruit trees, herbs, lettuce, maple trees, melons, necrotic ring spots in lawns, onions, pansy, peas, pears, promotion of earthworms in the soils, potatoes, pumpkins, raspberries, radishes, red hot chili peppers, rose plants, turf grass management of blue grass and all other kinds of grasses, spinach, stone fruit, strawberries, sugar cane, tomatoes, wine grape, vine and vineyard management, zucchini and squash of all kinds, many different vegetables and several thousand other specific plants - virtually everything grown on farms and in gardens aimed at plant and root enhancement. Numerous pictures are present in a variety of exhibits.

Contained in these products are soil life forms that are often found in some compost tea brewing kits but are much more effective in our BioVam Mycorrhiza product and our Microbe Tea Brewing kits. Organisms like, mycorrhiza fungi (endomycorrhiza fungi and ectomycorrhiza fungi), nitrogen fixing bacteria, phosphorous solubalizing bacteria, and bacteria that out compete plant pathogens are found in our BioVam product. Nitrogen fixing bacteria, cellulose eating trichoderma fungi, and many beneficial soil organisms are found in our Microbe Tea Brewing Kits.