September 26, 2024 at 7:52 PM
Reasons to Choose Natural Minerals over Organic Fertilizers There are SO many reasons for choosing the Mittleider system of growing over Certified Organic! 1 Let’s start with the MACRO “argument”. There is not enough compost/manure in the world to feed 10% of the population, if even that much. Before “ground-up rocks” as commercial fertilizers […]
September 7, 2019 at 12:03 AM
Two typical areas of concern about using chemicals in the garden are contamination of food & the ground water. A natural concern of many people is the use of mineral nutrients from commercial sources in their vegetable gardens. They want to know if minerals would, or even could 1) contaminate the food they eat or […]
November 8, 2008 at 8:46 PM
Recently two questions were posed to me by a Mittleider Method gardener who came from a background of using only manure and compost. This person asked: 1. What is the difference between the Mittleider fertilizers and “organic fertilizer”? And why do some “organic-only” users say ours are bad? 2. Do you not recommend building our […]
