What commercial organic growers have known for decades, is starting to become a known fact for the home gardener: Feed the soil, not the plants! And, as more home gardeners want to go chemical free, the interest in organic gardening is growing leaps and bounds.

When we talk about organic gardening, we are talking about Soil Structure. Better soil structure will result in a more beautiful and healthy looking garden, bigger yields of great tasting fruits and vegetables, better resistance to plant diseases, and better soil aeration and water retention.

Good soil structure is chemical free! No synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides and fungicides are part of good soil structure. Instead, there are an abundance of bacteria and fungi, the key members of the soil food web. By start using organic soil components you will be able to reduce, if not eliminate, the need for all synthetic garden chemicals. If it was up to us, throw them away and don't look back!

When you feed your plants or lawn with a synthetic fertilizers you destroy the living soil structure and keep the plants dependent on chemicals! The water retention in the soil decrease, as well as a plants natural resistance to deceases. The only way you can keep your plants or lawn looking ok, is by feeding them more chemicals! And, when it is recommended that you keep your kids and your pets indoors for a few days after an application of blue pellets, isn't something wrong!

Soil is best understood from a biological rather than a chemical perspective. Good soil is alive! By returning micro organisms to the soil, the natural soil web will start to solve all sorts of problems in its own natural way. Things will only improve when the microbes and the fungi start working in your soil, no matter what kind of soil you have.

Microbial life is about eating and being eaten, processing food and allowing the natural system go to work uninterrupted. All microbial life will eventually team up with other life forms in the soil and start producing food for the plants, aerate the soil, and make sure moisture is retained for a dry day. Every time a fungi or bacteria is digested, nutrients are left behind. In contrast to chemical fertilizers, organic nutrients will retain in the soil until the plant seek out the nutrients and feeds on them. In exchange for these nutrients, the plant will release exudates from its roots, which in turn provide a good food source to sustain these microbes. In short, that is the ecosystem of a healthy, functioning soil food web.

We can ask ourselves: How did the redwoods grow over 350 feet tall without chemicals? Well, we are willing to bet that the soil structure had something to do with it. There is more biological diversity in a cubic yard of healthy soil than above-ground in all of the tropical rainforests on earth!

SoilSoup is a powerful member of the soil food web. In a teaspoon of SoilSoup there are billions of beneficial microbes ready to start feeding the soil food web. Some microbes are food for larger microbes and some go to work digesting and providing soluble nutrients for the plants.

In contrast to any shelf stable product, the microbes in SoilSoup are metabolically active, which means they are awake. That is the reason for the quick and noticeable results you will notice in your garden after just a few applications. A fair amount of SoilSoup users claim that everything start to perk up after just one or two applications.