Foliar feeding is a technique of supplying plants the nutrients they need by applying a liquid fertilizer to the plants leaves. This technique is becoming a more popular method to the home gardener. It is an eco-friendly way to supply nutrition to the plants that you are growing in your organic gardens.
Using this technique on fruit producing crops like tomatoes can increase there yields and on crops like lettuce or spinach to speed up there maturity, along with increasing there storage life. It is a common practice that has been used for some time to help grass green more rapidly, and even being used by commercial farms to prevent plants from frost or drought damage. Foliar feeding can even be used as a pest control method for aphids and spider mites, or as a control measure for powdery mildew. There are many natural benefits that this technique can provide when applied properly.
Plant life can absorb eight to twenty times more nutrition and more efficiently through the surface of there leaves than they can through there root systems. As a result of this benefit, your crops can produce remarkable yields. The best times to apply foliar feeding techniques is during the plants critical growth stages like transplanting, blooming or just after they set fruit.
Organic gardening is all about soil, so before you decide to just use foliar feeding as the only source of nutrition for your plants, remember the basics of organic gardening, feed the soil and not your plants. A healthy organic soil structure is an ecosystem all in it's own. It is full of natural life that works hard to provide many benefits for plant life that can only be done naturally. It is the support system for plant life and retains the nutrients,and moisture that plants need to thrive.
Amending your gardens soil with organic matter is what builds a fertile soil, fertilizers don't. Having a good soil management plan in place that includes adding a balanced, composted organic matter to the soil is the best way to improve the fertility of your gardens soil. It is the fuel source needed to keep the complex community of life that exists in soil naturally.
A healthy organic garden soil is one that has an ecosystem that is full of life and rich in organic matter. This type of soil will aid in the prevention of nutrient loss, due to leaching, and retain excess nutrients so they are available for plant life when most needed.
A environment friendly and healthy way of gardening. Organic Gardening is away of gardening in harmony with nature. Growing a healthy and productive crop in a way that is healthier for both you and the environment.
John Yazo
http://www.organicheirloomgardening.com
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