humus

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Humus is the life of your soil. Without it, soil is inactive an unable to
produce plants, grass and flowers.

Humus retains moisture in the soil, loosens the soil permitting better
aeration and drainage, and encourages the increase of soil organisms
which make nutrients available to plants.
It adds body to light soil and loosens heavy, sticky soil.
Humus is like air it's abundant, renewable and essential for like to exist
on this planet.

It's so much more complex than air that even after hundreds of years
of research, no one really knows exactly what it is.
The term "humus" doesn't really describe anything. It's a very generic
term for a complex product. Sometimes described as the end product
but since it never remains in a static condition, it's hard to call it an end
product.

Additionally, it's structural, chemical and visible composition can be so
different from one soil to another soil.

In cultivated environments, humus is an important asset which, like
most other assets, is easier to maintain than it is to replace.
Unfortunately, the value of humus is, oftentimes, not fully realized until it
is severely depleted and its benefits are no longer available.

Old, stable humus is biologically resistant. Depending on the
environmental conditions under which it exists humus can sit in the soil
for centuries, even millenniums, with only a minimal amount of
decomposition occurring. However slight, decay still occurs and
eventually even old humus will cycle back from where it came. The
formation of new humus is critical to maintaining a stable presence of
this asset in the soil.
Current agricultural and horticultural practices have little effect on old,
stable humus.
However, many of those methods of cultivation can destroy new humus
in the formative stages when it is more vulnerable to decay than its
older counterpart.

Humus is a renewable resource.

Humus...
and not the kind you eat!

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