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Natures Own Growing System - An Enhanced Growing Process
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NUTRIENT LEVELS & PRECAUTIONS

Mycorrhizal inoculation is usually most responsive at low fertility levels. To assure inoculation the University of California recommends that the nutrient levels should be below at least one of the following with the phosphorous level being the most critical:

*Nitrate forms of nitrogen are preferable to ammonium forms especially in peat mixes.

Response to Mycorrhizal inoculation along with fertilization has often been positive even at normally recommended application rates (nutrient levels higher than those suggested above). However, Mycorrhiza can be most beneficial at low, fertility levels - increasing growth rate, plant quality, and survivability and at the same time reducing fertilizer, material and labor costs.

As a general guideline for citrus, the University of California suggests applying 1/3 or less the recommended rates of ammonium nitrate and superphosphate.

We recommend the use of low phosphate organic fertilizers with BioVam such as Biosol 6-1-3 or Biosol Mix 7-2-3.  This particular fertilizer will feed organic material and low levels of nutrients to the Mycorrhiza and will enhance the Mycorrhiza growth as well as the growth of your plants.  If you can’t obtain Biosol locally, you can substitute cottonseed meal (6-2-1).  We also urge you to amend your soil with Gypsum and with minerals such as Ironite or Planters II.  Mix these products all through your planting beds before planting and apply once a year as a top dressing around your plants.  Use 1/3 less than the manufacturer’s recommended application rate.

PRECAUTIONS

Important note:  Once you treat your plants with BioVam mycorrhiza, you need to inform others who may decide to fertilize your plants that they are not to apply fertilizers that are above 2% phosphorous to your BioVam treated plants.  Such fertilizers, especially where the phosphorous is soluble, can result in your plants drying up and dying rather quickly.   You may think you are the only person who will be caring for your BioVam treated plants, but everyone in your household who has access to those plants needs to clearly understand this important rule.

Mycorrhiza cannot survive levels of steam pasteurization and fumigation which are normally required to eliminate common soil pathogens.

Certain fungicides can also inhibit inoculation including: Arasan, Benomyl, Botran, Mylone, and Thiabendazole.

Other fungicides, in selected studies, have shown little or no effect on infection and development of endomycorrza. These include: Ethoprop, Funsophothian, Ethazole, Captan, Maneb, Ridomil, Aliette, Pyroxzyclor, and Thiophanate. Some fungicides such as Ethazole (Terrazole and Truban), when applied at low rates (10-40 ppm) and at 30 to 60 days after inoculation can stimulate Mycorrhizal infection.

 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.

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