Why Should Farmers/Gardeners Know About Soil and Soil Food Webs?
It is very important for farmers and gardeners to know about the state of their soil and how the soil food webs work because they can better manager their own soil by using techniques that will reduce or possibly eliminate the need for fertilizers, herbicides, fungicides, and pesticides. According to Lowenfels & Lewis (2006), gardeners and farmers can improve degraded soils and return them to usefulness. Soils will retain nutrients in the bodies of soil food web organisms instead of letting them leach out. Your plants will be getting nutrients in the form each particular plant wants and needs so they will be less stressed. You will have natural disease prevention, protection, and suppressionThe organisms in the soil food web will do most of the work of maintaining plant health. Billions of living organisms will be continuously at work throughout the year, doing the heavy chores, providing nutrients to plants building defense systems against pests and diseases, loosening soil and increa
