New Zealand Fertiliser Blog

Mankind has long understood the words of Ash Wednesday: “Remember that you are dust and that you will return to dust.”

Our ancestors were well aware that this “dust” of the soil is what determines vigour and health. Well before metabolism and enzymatic functions were known about, our forebears looked at what they saw around them, and declared that “the animal is a product of the soil”.Scientific discovery now allows us to put this belief in more modern terms which are, however, no more than a copy of the olden words – “The living organism (animal or human) is the biochemical photograph of the environment in which it lives, particularly of the soil which manufactured the nutrients for it.” Continue Reading »

Most people misunderstand or know little about the movement of water in soils.

The average person will assume that water simply moves downwards. But, in fact, if water is applied to soil at a single point, it defies the law of gravity and moves sideways just as fast as it goes down. The result – it soaks into the soil in a spherical pattern. Continue Reading »