VitaLife Calcium
A unique product containing Calcium (lime), Organic Matter and Fungi for Plant Growth and Soil Health.
VitaLife increases the development of humus. Humus, the organic ‘glue’ in the soil, results from the breakdown of organic matter by beneficial fungi and bacteria. These, along with earthworms, decompose surface litter providing rapid humus development.
As humus develops in soils there is an increase in the level of plant available nutrients, increased storage capacity for nutrients, greater moisture holding ability and improved drainage.
The organic matter is an important carbon source and provides an initial food source for beneficial microbes. Fungi are added as the majority of agricultural soils are now fungi-deficient which can explain low brix levels, low calcium and phosphate levels in the leaf, limited disease resistance and poor retention of calcium in some soils.
Calcium is the most important soil nutrient as this element governs the uptake of other nutrients, including the oxygen necessary for robust soil health. The addition of fungi assists with the retention and plant availability of Calcium.
Benefits of applying VitaLife :-
- improved microbial activity
- increased speed of humus build-up
- greater soil storage capacity for nutrients and moisture
- stronger more vigorous plant growth
- improved soil structures
