Why Form 5495 Amend 2017-2023

Hi I'm Steven Alberta urban garden dot CA if you're an organic gardener you've probably seen Kalpa based fertilizer products in your local greenhouse they come in fertilizers kelp meals and kelp powders but really what are these kelp products and what benefits do they bring to your garden let's take a look first at the nitrogen phosphorous and potassium these are macro nutrients that are required for plant growth and are often the first things to be depleted the highest reported end became a kelp product that I could find was from the Colorado State extensions website with an NPK of 1:04 most other kelp based products have negligible NPK s if they do have an NB K it's often because they've been combined with fish products or fish waste or fish emulsions to give the product in NPK with a negligible NPK of most kelp products let's take a look at the trace elements there are 18 trace elements that are required or beneficial for plant growth an absence or presence of these elements will have implications on the plant's growth cycle and ability to produce for you of these 18 elements there are two that are not commonly tested for that silicon and chlorine and the reason is is they're abundantly available all across the earth so there's no real need to actually test for them there are many varieties of kelp used in agriculture to add these essential and beneficial elements to the soil when one of these varieties of kelp was run for trace elemental analysis they found results in milligrams per liter of copper magnesium zinc iron potassium manganese cobalt and sodium these results accounted for eight of the sixteen commonly tested for essential and beneficial elements for plant growth kelp is not only...