Natures Own Growing System

A reader in New Zealand writes:

Hi,

I’m a newbie to understanding Brix and the growing of high quality produce. I have not done a lot of searching back through your files to date but will.

I have a question unrelated to my own situation at the moment. In the New Zealand Kiwifruit industry they pick commercially, the fruit is harvested mature-ripe when its soluble sugars reach 6.5 brix on a refractometer.

If I am talking to a grower and tell him he can grow higher Brix levels in his, he would likely say he would then pick earlier, as the industry requires this. The thinking process, I presume, is that they would not store if picked too late. I do know that High Brix produce does store longer but not sure how to explain this point of view.

I have had this comment from apple growers as well.

Your thoughts?

Thanks
Grant

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Grant,

You are dealing with a couple of different meanings concerning brix here. Your growers are not recognizing brix as something equated to quality, but are using brix as a measurement to determine when it is appropriate to harvest a fruit. Kiwifruit, Apples, and Grapes are often harvested when they reach certain brix levels. Those growers use a refractometer for those purposes.

However, they do not recognize that Brix “equals” quality. The Kiwi fruit growers don’t use brix as a means of determining quality, but use brix as a means of determining when to harvest their fruit. Continue Reading »

Product Catalogue

Our Affordable Gardening Supply Products, which we call Natures Own Growing System, include Organic Gardening Kit, BioVam Mycorrhiza, Biosol Mix 7-2-3 Organic Fertilizer, Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer, Yucca Extract, Microbe Tea Brewing Kits, Pre-Brewed Microbe Tea, Bio-Peat moss and mushroom compost, Zeolite, Organic White Gold Bar Soaps, Just Like Sugar Natural Sweetener, and Spider Elimination Kits (spider traps). Most of these products are used to grow high brix plants which are high in plant nutrients (mineral and vitamin) content.

Biosol Mix^® is a natural, environmentally safe fertilizer with high organic content (97% natural organic), (3% is sulfate of potash magnesia, all mined substances).

Biosol Mix 55lb Bag

Biosol Mix^® is a long acting, slow release fertilizer with a well blended nutrient ratio which stimulates micro organisms. Biosol Mix^® is dried, pelletized, and bagged for convenient transportation, storage and application.

Biosol Mix^® is used in re-vegetation projects, such as Road Cuts, Mining Reclamation, High Altitude Re-vegetation etc. Some other uses are Lawns, Gardens, Flowers, Trees, Viticulture (cultivation of grapes), Silviculture and Vegetable Growing.

Biosol Mix^® accommodates the need for a slightly faster nitrogen release rate.  In some cases this attribute, combined with a lower price, offers an attractive alternative. Continue Reading »

Natures Own Soil Life One Gallon Tea Brewer

Natures Own Growing System Tea Brewers are manufactured by T&J Enterprises.

The ingredients in Natures Own Growing System Soil Life Tea Brewers consist of high performing Aerobic and faculative soil bacteria which fix nitrogen from the air, solubalize minerals, and reduce organic material into plant food.  Trichoderma fungi are also present in our Tea Brewing Kits. Weekly applications of Natures Own Growing System Soil Life Tea (after brewing for 24 hours) to your plants and soils helps sustain the production of nutrients for your plants at high levels.  Our soil life tea will encourage your plants to raise their shields against pathogens before they can gain entrance to your plants. This product was designed by T&J Enterprises to work in conjunction with our BioVam product which feeds the nutrients into your plants’ roots and with our two Organic fertilizers (Biosol Mix 7-2-3 All Purpose Fertilizer and Planters II Trace Mineral Fertilizer). Continue Reading »

BioVam One Gallon

Our natural organic BioVam product provides the mycorrhiza fungi which move nutrients into the roots of your plants and loosens up the soils around the roots of each plant. Beneficial Aerobic Bacteria in BioVam can then fix nitrogen out of the air, solubalize minerals, reduce organic material in the soil into plant nutrients and build soil tilth. Trichoderma fungi in BioVam promote root growth and fight off fungal pathogens in the soils. BioVam furnishes important soil life that lives in and around the roots of your plants. BioVam will work with all plants, even with non-mycorrhizal plants because all plants respond to the Trichoderma fungi and Aerobic Bacteria which are part of Biovam. Gardeners guide to mycorrhiza – see our exhibits. Partial List of plants benefited by BioVam.