Soil Facts

• Soil is perhaps the most overlooked and underrated portion of the growing process.
• Approximately 10% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions are stored in soil.
• Soil is at the bottom of the food chain, yet it is the cornerstone of life on earth.
• Plants can make proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, enzymes and other compounds, but cannot create a mineral. A plant requires minerals to build these compounds.
• Some people believe composting will result in healthy nutritious vegetables and produce, but it does not provide complete nutrients and essential minerals that equate to healthier food.
• IRON EARTH™ is environmentally beneficial. 

Re-mineralizing

• Increases crop yields.
• Restores ecological balance.
• Grows more nutritious food.
• Brings soil back to life.

Soil-conditioning

• Replenishes nutrients in the soil.
• Helps plants sustain a healthy life.
• Binds together atoms that plants need in order to grow.

Mineral Rich Soil

• Provides nutrients to the plants.

Micronutrients

• Important for the health of the soil.
• Calcium
• Chromium
• Copper
• Iodine
• Iron
• Selenium
• Zinc

Organic Minerals Information

• Provide essential ingredients to soil.
• Allow the soil and the enzyme to function properly.
• Provides nutrients to the plants, the root system and protects the plant from pests.
• Provides nutrients to vegetables and fruits that provide them to us. 

Minerals that are natural bound earth elements and natural occurring are classified as “organic”. There are 76 natural bound earth elements in IRON EARTH™ Soil Re-mineralizer.

These elements are aluminum, aluminum hydroxide, antimony, arsenic, barium, beryllium, bismuth, boron, bromine, cadmium, calcium, carbon, cerium, chloride, chromium, cobalt, copper, dysprosium, erbium, europium, fluorine, gadolinium, gallium, germanium, gold, hafnium, holmium, hydrogen, indium iodine, iridium, iron, lanthanum, lead, lithium, lutetium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, neodymium, nickel, niobium, nitrogen, osmium, oxygen, palladium, phosphorous, platinum, potassium, praseodymium, rhenium, rhodium, rubidium, ruthenium, samarium, scandium, selenium, silicon, silver, sodium, strontium, sulphur, tantalum, tellurium, terbium, thallium, thorium, thulium, tin, titanium, tungsten, vanadium, ytterbium, yttrium, zinc and zirconium.

All necessary for plant and human health in natures proportion.

Here are some of the most common elements found in IRON EARTH™. Keeping in mind that all elements are in nature's perfect proportions and not modified by man or process. 

Boron

• Necessary for cell wall formation, membrane integrity, and calcium uptake.
• Affects at least 16 functions in plants including flowering, pollen germination, fruiting, cell division, water relationships and the movement of hormones.
• Easily leached from soils.
• Deficiencies kill terminal buds leaving a rosette effect on the plant.
• Lack of Boron causes leaves to be curled and brittle, discoloured or speckled fruit and roots.

Calcium

• Activates enzymes.
• A structural component of cell walls.
• Influences water movement in cells.
• Necessary for cell growth and division.
• Deficiency causes stunting of new growth in stems, flowers and roots. Symptoms range from distorted new growth to black spots on leaves and fruit. Yellow leaf margins may also appear.

Chlorine

• Is involved in osmosis (movement of water or solutes in cells), the ionic balance necessary for plants to take up mineral elements.
• Deficiency symptoms include wilting, stubby roots, chlorosis (yellowing) and bronzing. Odours in some plants may be decreased. 
• Some plants may show signs of toxicity if levels are too high.

Cobalt

• Required for nitrogen fixation in legumes and in root nodules of non-legumes.
• Deficient levels could result in nitrogen deficiency symptoms.

Copper

• Concentrated in roots of plants and plays a part in nitrogen metabolism.
• A component of several enzymes.
• It is not readily lost from soil but may often be unavailable.
• Too much copper can cause toxicity. However, in nature's proportion it's perfect.
• Copper is bound tightly in organic matter and may be deficient in highly organic soils.

Iron

• Necessary for many enzyme functions.
• A catalyst for the synthesis of chlorophyll.
• Essential for the young growing parts of plants.
• Deficiencies are pale leaf colour of young leaves followed by yellowing of leaves and large veins.
• Lost by leaching and is held in the lower portions of the soil structure.
• Under conditions of high pH (alkaline) iron is rendered unavailable to plants, except in nature's perfect proportion as in IRON EARTH™.
• When soils are alkaline, iron may be abundant but unavailable. Applications of an acid nutrient formula containing iron chelates, held in soluble form, should correct the problem.

Magnesium

• Critical structural component of the chlorophyll molecule.
• Necessary for functioning of plant enzymes to produce carbohydrates, sugars and fats.
• Used for fruit and nut formation and essential for germination of seeds.
• Deficient plants appear chlorotic, show yellowing between veins of older leaves; leaves may droop.
• Magnesium is leached by watering and must be supplied when feeding. It can be applied as a foliar spray to correct deficiencies.

Manganese

• Involved in enzyme activity for photosynthesis, respiration, and nitrogen metabolism.
• Deficiency in young leaves may show a network of green veins on a light green background similar to an iron deficiency. In the advanced stages the light green parts become white, and leaves are shed. Brownish, black, or greyish spots may appear next to the veins.
• In neutral or alkaline soils plants often show deficiency symptoms.
• In highly acid soils, manganese may be available to the extent that it results in toxicity; this is not the case with IRON EARTH™'s perfect proportion.

Molybdenum

• A structural component of the enzyme that reduces nitrates to ammonia.
• Without it, the synthesis of proteins is blocked and plant growth ceases.
• Root nodule (nitrogen fixing) bacteria also require it.
• Seeds may not form completely, and nitrogen deficiency may occur if plants are lacking molybdenum.
• Deficiency signs are pale green leaves with rolled or cupped margins.

Nickel

• Required for the enzyme urease to break down urea to release the nitrogen into a usable form for plants.
• Required for iron absorption.
• Required for seeds to germinate.
• Absence leads to deficient plants that may fail to produce viable seeds.

Nitrogen

• Major component of proteins, hormones, chlorophyll, vitamins and enzymes essential for plant life.
• Major factor in stem and leaf growth (vegetative growth).
• Too much can delay flowering and fruiting.
• Deficiencies can reduce yields, cause yellowing of the leaves and stunt growth.

Phosphorus

• Necessary for seed germination, photosynthesis, protein formation.
• Essential for flower and fruit formation.
• Low pH (<4) results in phosphate being chemically locked up in organic soils.
• Deficiency symptoms:
• Are purple stems and leaves.
• Maturity and growth is stunted.
• Yields of fruit and flowers are poor.
• Premature drop of fruits and flowers may often occur.
• Must be applied close to the plant’s roots in order for the plant to utilize it.
• Large applications of phosphorus without adequate levels of zinc can cause a zinc deficiency.

Potassium

• Necessary for formation of sugars, starches, carbohydrates, protein synthesis and cell division in roots and other parts of the plant.
• Helps to adjust water balance, improves stem rigidity and cold hardiness.
• Enhances flavour and colour on fruit and vegetable crops.
• Increases the oil content of fruits.
• Important for leafy crops.
• Deficiencies result in low yields, mottled, spotted or curled leaves, scorched or burned look to leaves.

Sodium

• Involved in osmotic (water movement) and ionic balance in plants.

Silicon

• Found as a component of cell walls.
• Produces stronger, tougher cell walls making them a mechanical barrier to piercing and sucking insects.
• Significantly enhances plant heat and drought tolerance.
• Foliar sprays consisting of silicon have also shown benefits reducing populations of aphids on field crops.
• Tests have also found that silicon can be deposited by the plants at the site of infection by fungus to combat the penetration of the cell walls by the attacking fungus.
• Side effects include improved leaf erectness, stem strength and prevention or depression of iron and manganese toxicity.

Sulfur

• Essential to produce chlorophyll.
• Accounts for flavour to many vegetables.
• Deficiencies show as light green leaves.
• Lost by discharge from soils.
• Should be applied with a nutrient formula.

Zinc

• A component of enzymes or a functional cofactor of a large number of enzymes including auxins (plant growth hormones).
• Essential to carbohydrate metabolism, protein synthesis and internodal elongation (stem growth).
• Deficient plants have mottled leaves with irregular chlorotic areas. Zinc deficiency leads to iron deficiency causing similar symptoms.