Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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The objective of the Petrik system is to produce nutritionally complete
food from strong healthy plants that require minimum chemical assistance to
produce optimum yield and quality. Petrik are world leaders in soil
microbiology. Through understanding and working with nature the simplest
description of our aim is, “the creation of stable humus”. Conventional
growers lament the loss of productivity from previously virgin soils over
time, increasing chemical inputs in an attempt to prop up falling yields.
Stable humus is degraded by inappropriate fertiliser and chemical use.

As this happens the soil loses structure restricting the operation of the
native biology. The Petrik system focuses on the plant microbe
relationship. The objective is to provide the optimum physical and chemical
environment to allow the plant to maximise the benefits from soil biology.
Once the soil chemistry is corrected application of field toughened biology
starts the creation of stable humus paving the way for the soils indigenous
microbes to again operate at full efficiency.

Plants exude between 10 and 25 % of the photosythates they produce into the
rhizosphere to support beneficial microbes, conventional modern agriculture
ignores this resource.

You already have microbes in your soil, they are however in many cases
restricted from operating by chemistry, structure and organic matter
limitations. If you are going to add microbes, you have to add microbes
that can handle the conditions that are currently limiting your indigenous
microbes. Petrik Digester initiates the humus creation process. In soil
which is chemically balanced, this humus glues the soil particles together
giving permanent structure. This structure gives the soil porosity allowing
air and water movement and the proliferation of indigenous microbes.

Related Links
» Petrik Biology
» Petrik Chemistry
» Petrik Foliar
» Petrik Penetrants
» Petrik Cheleation Agents

Petrik History
Vaclav Petrik, (senior) began producing commercial preparations of soil
microbes 1947 in Czechoslovakia. Petrik developed their first stable
products that could be bottled and stored in 1961. The comprehensive Petrik
Soil Test was developed in order to ascertain amendments required to
provide optimum soil chemical conditions for the performance of the
biology. While developing the Soil Test Vaclav Petrik Senior corresponded
with Dr William Albrecht and the principal of cation balance is integral to
the system. The soil amendment system incorporates anion management and
demonstrates the unique understanding of anions affect on cation
availability.