Plant & Soil Doctor Talks Benefits of Humic Acid & Organic Solutions

As challenges related to fertilizers increase, more people are looking for solutions and alternatives. From fertilizer shortages to nutrient pollution in water, Kerry Johnson, who holds a PhD in horticulture and a PhD in Agronomy, among other degrees, shares ways we can mitigate some of those growing challenges, whether from our home lawn, garden, golf course or farm.

“As I may expound on things, like soil structures, a home gardener will say, ‘Great, Doc. But, how does that apply to me, here in the garden?’” 

How to Choose a Soil Wetting Agent

Manage soil moisture with soil wetting agents. These soil surfactants help when soil, regardless of rain, drought or irrigation, is not absorbing, draining or retaining water properly. This leads to unhealthy plants, whether a lawn, landscape, golf course or sports field. Soil wetters help with balanced hydration for plant health.

Soil wetting agents help evenly disperse water through soil. Managing moisture in soil is one of the most important factors for plant health.

Penterra is the fastest-acting soil wetting penetrant for balanced plant hydration. It gets water moving through the soil profile quickly. Customers call it the Rain Drain because Penterra prevents puddling and helps water-in rain. Penterra is a highly effective soil penetrant and soil surfactant for addressing hydrophobic conditions.

Horizon adds more Geoponics products to their landscape supply line just in time for summer. Several of these summer landscape supplies are ideal for overcoming drought and water restrictions. They are products for lawns, gardens and sport fields.

One of the ways to improve a landscape’s drought tolerance, improve plant health and conserve water is through the use of wetting agents, soil surfactants and soil penetrants. But how do you choose the best wetting agent?

Geoponics offers five soil surfactants and they have many of the same core benefits in common and then just a couple attributes particular to each one. Here is how to choose the best wetting agent for your situation.

Penterra Is the Fastest-Acting Soil Penetrant for Efficiently Watering Lawns, Gardens, Golf Courses and Plants

In almost every situation Penterra, a soil penetrant by Geoponics, will help to hydrate soil, plants, lawns, gardens and golf courses. Better yet, it does this while using less water. Now, an extremely rare event, through May 31, 2022, Penterra is on sale. Use code: Save20, online only, at SoilPenetrant.com for our Memorial Day Sale.

We are now starting seeds received by UF/IFAS in their encouragement of community gardening. About 10 days ago, we picked up our free seed packets from our local Extension Office. Today, we are setting out to germinate the seeds. The seed varieties we are starting are cherry tomatoes, bell peppers and Italian eggplant.

Propagating and Organic Fertilizer for Fruit Trees

Gardening with Geoponics got interesting this week when we branched out to explore expert tips about propagating fruit trees. We learned how easy and quick it is to propagate many fruit trees using the air layer method. And, we swapped organic fertilizer tips with other expert growers.

Today, we got our Extension Office seeds.

When we learned that nearly 60 University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences extension offices across the state were offering seeds to promote community gardening, we were immediately excited to participate.

We hope you’ll get your seeds and follow along. We will share the growing process with you, each step of the way.

There are extension offices like this across the U.S. that offer similar ways to support growers– whether farmers, community gardeners, agricultural professionals or simply a home gardener.

It’s been almost a month since we shared with you one of the most easily propagated plants, Mother of Thousands. We wanted to share an update on how that is going. Plus, we introduce Mother of Millions. And, not only how to propagate these amazing plants, but also how to destroy them to avoid over-population.