There is a common misconception that salt is bad for soil. Historically, didn't conquering armies used to poison their enemies crops by salting their land? The truth about salt and soil is actually a lot more interesting and nuanced. While large amounts of straight sodium chloride (white table salt) would be bad for soil and plant health, measured amounts of complex sea minerals invigorate microbial life and improve the electrical conductivity of your soil! Many decades ago, Dr. Maynard Murray discovered that measured amounts of sea mineral were extremely beneficial to soil health and plant growth.
The ancient sea minerals found at the Redmond, Utah deposit are geologically unique and contain a nature-made blend of electrolytes and trace minerals that your soil and soil-based organisms will love.
Redmond knows that nourishment starts from the ground up. Simply put, we are what our food eats. Plants grown in nutrient rich soil pass along those benefits all the way up the food chain. Mineralyte Soil Products are OMRI certified organic soil amendments that improve the fertility of your soil to grow healthier, more productive, and more nutrient dense plants.
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Let’s look closer and see what Mineralyte’s ingredients can do for your soil quality.
Harvested from our ancient sea deposit in central Utah, Mineralyte contains a full spectrum of electrolytes and trace minerals. These sea minerals boost the electrical conductivity (EC) levels in your soil and invigorate the intricate biological and chemical highway system your plants rely on. This influx of energy creates a chain reaction that leads to increased soil fertility:
This weathered, volcanic ash is harvested from the Redmond mineral deposit in central Utah, and consequently, is naturally imbued with a rich profile of our ancient sea minerals. Our volcanic conditioner helps increase the cation exchange capacity (CEC) of your soil and creates a storage of nutrients that your plants can exchange and trade for what they need.
Our conditioner particles have a naturally strong negative charge that holds and stores positively charged cations in your soil. Plant roots can then exchange hydrogen cations for the essential nutrients in the soil that it cannot produce for itself.
Humates are rich compounds from fully decomposed organic matter. According to Dr. Robert E. Pettit (Emeritus Associate Professor) of Texas A&M University, humates are essential players in the life and death cycle that moves nutrients through soil, plants, air, and animals:
“The value of humic substances in soil fertility and plant nutrition relates to the many functions these complex organic compounds perform as a part of the life cycle on earth. The life death cycle involves a recycling of the carbon containing structural components of plants and animals through the soil and air and back into the living plant.”
Dr. Pettit expounds on a myriad of humate benefits for your soil, your plants, and plant consumers:
“Continued use of these acidic fertilizers in the absence of adequate humic substances (in the soil) has caused many serious sociological and ecological problems. Man needs to reconsider his approach to fertilization techniques by giving higher priority to soil humus.” -Dr. Robert E. Pettit
Mineraltye is extremely versatile and can be used on gardens, raised beds, pastures, lawns, ornamental grasses, and containers. Once a year, top dress or lightly incorporate directly on the soil. For best results, water after application. We recommend using Mineralyte in the early spring. You can also amend in the fall and cover your garden beds to allow time soil to improve over the winter.
Use Mineralyte Foundation for moderate quality soil that needs a boost in microbial activity.
Use Mineralyte Build with your own homegrown manure or compost.
Use Mineralyte Grow by itself (it contains its own manure/compost).
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