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Sea Minerals to Improve Soil Quality
Our mineral soil has been used in agriculture, horticulture, and gardening worldwide for better plant growth since 1958. Try our Volcanic Sea Mineral fertilizer.
Posted by Brooke Loeffler on Feb 16, 2022, 4:59:51 PM
What is Redmond Mineralyte?
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. Mineralyte is made of:
- Redmond volcanic conditioner
- Redmond sea minerals
- Humates
Let’s look closer and see what Mineralyte’s ingredients can do for your soil quality.
Redmond Volcanic Conditioner
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.
- Click here to learn more about cation exchange capacity (CEC) and electrical conductivity (EC) in your soil.
Redmond Sea Minerals
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:
- Repopulates soil-based microbe colonies
- Larger microbe population = more organic matter in the soil
- Microbes “unlock” nutrients in the soil as they feed, metabolize, and excrete.
- Without this hive of soil activity, nutrients would remain biologically and chemically locked up in forms that are unavailable to plant roots
- These stimulated bacteria are a critical part of the nitrogen cycle, that transforms atmospheric nitrogen into a form your plants can use
- Click here to learn more about the role microbes play in the soil nitrogen cycle.
“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
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