Jadam organic Farming & Gardening : The Way to Ultra-Low-Cost Agriculture, Make All-Natural Fertilizer, Pesticide and Microorganism Inputs Yourself

do as nature does
. Nature makes it a rule to apply
fertilizer: in autumn, on the surface and in raw form. If you insist on adding
rice bran, perilla cake and/or other organic matter, mix them together and scat-
ter on the ield in autumn. Apply JMS so that microbes can start feeding on
them. Using tiller at this stage speeds up the process. After autumn, winter and
spring pass, compost will be fully prepared. Fertilize your farm in autumn lik-
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nature; not in spring. ings will become so much easier. Another merit of au-
tumn application is that it can prevent larvae damage in spring because there is
no food for them in the organic matter that has decomposed completely
through fall, winter and spring. 
Someone might ask “instead of going through all the trouble of growing
grass and turning it into organic fertilizer, would it not be easier to simply use
rice bran, perilla pulp and press cakes which are good organic matter in them-
selves?” Somehow, everybody seems to believe that organic fertilizer equals oil
press cakes. ere are an ininite number of different organic materials; there
are quality differences between them. What is the best organic material? Con-
trary to common practice and belief, rice bran, perilla pulp and press cakes are
not the best of ingredients because they are the leftovers (peel) after the grain,
nut and fruit have been extracted of their nutritional essences. ey are just the
skin of a fruit and are deicient of the comprehensive nutrients that the fruit
has. at makes them far from the ideal substance to give to your soil/crops.
Fertilizer made from plant
skin
does not possess the comprehensive nutrients
required by plants – it simply increases soil nutrient imbalance. Contami-
nants are an important cause for soil degradation, however,