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micronutrients that are important to the plants
What is trace elements?
100
Growing plants naturally without artificial chemical fertilizers and toxic pesticides.
What is organic gardening?
100
Easily crumbled
What is friable?
100
good
What is beneficial?
100
Not active, no power of action
What is inert?
200
A major element needed for strong plants. Helps the plant convert sunlight to energy. Helps water asbsorption. Naturally mined from limestone.
What is calcium?
200
Helps make plants grow deep roots. It is sourced from bone meal or as a naturally mined material.
What is phosphorous?
200
Enduring plants that don't have to be replanted. They provide a crop year after year.
What is perennial?
200
Cooked animal blood. Excellent source of nitrogen.
What is blood meal?
200
Worm manure
What is castings?
300
A winter ground cover that puts nitrogent in the soil from the air. Creates lots of organic matter for the soil.
What is legume?
300
Mutually beneficial
What is symbiotic?
300
Plants that have to be planted year after year.
What is annual?
300
Cross between two different parent plants.
What is hybrid?
300
A measure of the sugar/mineral content of the sap or juice of the fruit.
What is brix?
400
Plant nutrients made from natural plant or animal byproducts.
What is organic fertilizer?
400
Insect manure
What is frass?
400
Planted every other year (grows one year and makes seeds the second year). Provides food and shelter for beneficial insects.
What is biennial?
400
Element that helps make plants grow tall. Comes from the air through the relationship with the bacterial in the soil.
What is nitrogen?
400
Nutrient good for amino acids and proteins.
What is copper?
500
Helps makes plants grow out. It stimulates flower and fruit production.
What is potassium?
500
A beneficial fungus naturally occurring in healthy soils. Works symbiotically with plants.
What is endomycorrhizal?
500
Naturally repels water
What is hydrophobic?
500
Plants need this to make chlorophyll. It makes soil sticky.
What is magnesium?
500
Translocates sugars (moves sugars up and down). It is a naturally mined mineral.
What is boron?