Blog: compost tea, foliar fertilisers and soil biology
Compost tea promotes root growth and with it silicon uptake: how the plant becomes more robust
Compost tea promotes root growth: in the ZHAW trial, cucumber seedlings formed 31 % more root mass than with water. More roots mea...
Compost tea against disease on golf greens: what our field trial shows
Compost tea kept up well with the fungicides in our field trial on golf greens. On the most affected green it even had less disease in ...
Compost tea and mycorrhiza: what our trial shows
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On the chart above: the variants
K0A− water only (control) · K0A+ water with mycorrhizal spores
K1A− compost te...
Trace elements: why a few grams do so much
A tonne of plant dry matter contains around 15 kg of nitrogen but only 0.1 g of molybdenum. Yet this tenth of a gram decides ...
Protein in bread wheat: why nitrogen alone is not enough
More nitrogen does not automatically mean more protein. In the leaf, the nitrogen has to become amino acids, and for that the plant nee...
Inoculating seed and seedlings with compost tea: what the trial shows
When you water your seed with compost tea, the seedling gets a whole microbial community to take along – exactly at the moment the rhiz...
Making your own biostimulants: what really works on the farm
If you make compost tea, compost extract or ferments yourself, you have the microbiology fresh in the tank instead of sitting in a cani...
Leaf sap analysis: when to do it and what it shows you
A leaf sap analysis shows you what the plant has actually taken up – not what is in the soil. That is the whole difference. In the plan...
Boron: why the deficiency persists even though you fertilise
Boron is not mobile in the plant. Once it has been used, it is not resupplied from older leaves – the plant needs a steady supply, othe...
Magnesium: why the deficiency comes in spring even though the soil is full
In cold soil, magnesium does not reach the plant – not even when there is plenty of it in the soil. This is not a supply problem but a ...
