BIO ORGANICS, INC.

As more and more is learned about how plants really work, it is becoming obvious that the conventional emphasis on soil chemistry and NPK fertilizers has problems - most notably in the areas of drinking water contamination, soil degradation, disease-prone plants, and input costs.

But after decades of focusing exclusively on chemically-oriented growing practices, soil scientists around the world are now looking to the biological sciences to find better, cleaner, and more sustainable methods of growing both crops and ornamentals. Mycorrhizal fungi inoculants are one of the first results of USDA and university research in this very promising area.

In natural soil situations, plants enjoy mutually-beneficial relationships with many other organisms, many of them microscopic, and all these biological elements - plant roots, fungi, bacteria, earthworms, and other life forms - play some role in the lives of the others.

Over millions of years, mycorrhizal fungi and plants have formed a mutual dependence. The fungi are nourished by root exudates and in return bring great amounts of soil nutrients and moisture to their host plants. A mycorrhizal plant can uptake 100 times or more nutrients than one without the beneficial fungi.

The addition of mycorrhizal fungi spores to transplant roots, garden soils, potting soil, lawns, or seeded crops will ensure the presence of these valuable plant allies. The difference in plant health and performance can be dramatic, especially when dealing with less-than-perfect soils. Some extremely dependent plants, including grapes, citrus, melons, oaks and pines, may quite literally starve to death in soils that lack this helpful fungi.

The BioOrganics™ inoculants contain the top types of fungi spores from USDA and other tests, appropriate for any combination of plant, soil, and climate. And please note that our label counts are of mature shelf-stable spores, not "propagules" which are typically just cheap-to-produce hyphae fragments. This is the major difference between premium quality and inferior inoculants.

BioOrganics, Inc. has been producing mycorrhizal inoculants for general use by commercial growers since 1996. We have recently added smaller size containers for home gardeners or those who wish to experiment with bio-inoculants.

New product! We now offer garden minerals with mycorrhizal spores included. Work our MycoMinerals™ into gardens or potting soil to provide essential minor and trace elements, and introduce valuable beneficial microorganisms at the same time. This product is so different, we decided it deserved its own website. Go to www.mycominerals.com

For more scientific details, the results of many dozens of research studies on mycorrhizae can be found with any internet search. We particularly recommend viewing test results from the USDA's Horticultural Crops Research Laboratory at Corvallis, Oregon.

We welcome inquiries from farm or garden retailers interested in carrying our products.

 
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