Organic Matter, What Can We Do To Help Our Plants

We then saw the importance of organic matter, from which the micro organisms produce plant nutrients (both macro nutrients, especially nitrogen, such as micronutrients, especially iron, manganese, zinc and copper). But it also has other benefits for plants and soil and agricultural real estate.

On the one hand, improves soil structure, allowing optimal development of the roots, since good drainage, and increased water retention. It also promotes the aeration in the soil.

Another advantage relates to the regulatory effect of soil temperature, allowing that this remains constant (no oscillations. While having a color darker than the mineral soil, decreases the reflected radiation, heating up more.)

In nature, it is easier to "see" the input of organic matter, plants or animals that die, the fruits are ripe, the leaves of the trees dry out, animal feed and plant debris thrown during the process or defecate, the wind blows plants ... all of that falls on the earth and processed by the millions of organisms that become nutrients . But that does not close the process, these nutrients, that land so rich, feed the plants, which comply with its cycle and become, like other organic matter, just as plants that feed animals return to the earth and creates a continuous circle.

But we can replicate this process in our pots, not just when preparing the soil prior to planting, but also during plant development. One way is to develop, as already mentioned, add it to compost and then plant the land. But we can also perform a mulch covering the soil surface and go to be decomposed by microorganisms.

But if you also add organic matter is that we grow in this land continuously maintain fertility levels. Think we have a tomato plant in a pot, which is feeding on the nutrients in the soil found in that container, if you boot the whole plant once and harvest the fruit, as many people with this type Plant seedlings or buy flowers for spring, that land will go missing all these nutrients, but if we add portions and branches, roots and leaves, just lacked the nutrients carried in tomatoes in all farm for sale (and we eat us).