Fertigation, simply stated, is the injection of soluble products into irrigation water. This improves plant health and production goals with maximum efficiency. This method provides the technical capacity for precise nutrition.
Fertigation Management
Fertigation management provides the capacity to provide water and nutrition to equal the needs of the biosphere at the proper time. Evaportranspiration calculation, and soil moisture measurement help guide irrigation. Plant tissue testing and optical sensors such as chlorophyll meters also newer technologies include aerial evaluations using a variety of multi-spectral imaging to correlate nutrition.
This is undoubtedly the most effective strategy to improve nutrient use efficiency. All while positively influencing the economic and environmental sustainability of agricultural and urban agricultural activities.
Fertigation in Urban Agriculture
Fertigation and fertigation management in cities where atmospheric pollution peaks.
Municipalities include thousands of acres of arable land including airport buffer zones, parks, sports fields, business parks, homeowners associations, highway right of ways, and many other open areas, that could be utilized to help clean the environment.
Fertigation can be used to promote the biological activity in the soil by using metagenomic testing which illustrates the health of the soil baseline test prior to implementation and periodic testing thereafter can be used in the calculations to determine the fertigation management.
An airport as an example for carbon capture. The runways buffer zones presents the issues and values given that.
Large plants cannot be used, the nutrition and soil moisture would be determined by the utility of the airport. Zones close to the runway would be maintained not to exceed the limitation of the usage for an emergency. Zones further from the runway that provide safe distance for the traffic could be maximized based on the microbiome demand. Using low rates of pH buffered products could produce a healthy soil capable of carbon fixation without excessive growth. Zones further from the runway that provide safe distance for traffic could be maximized for carbon capture based on the microbime demand.
Greensmiths Products
Fertigation products can be much more than granular fertilizer. Greensmiths, Inc. has developed safe acid products that can be used through our proprietary fertigation systems.
All of the soil rhizosphere is sensitive to pH and responds best at neutral to slightly acid pH. All bacteria and fungus are extremely affected by alkalinity. While common knowledge states that soil pH cannot be changed by adding acids alone, due to the required volume, our acids buffer the soil allowing bacteria and friendly fungus to thrive. The respiration of the microbme then changes the soil structure, bringing the soil back to life through soil oxidation.
Elemental sulfur, a low cost dry product, is known to produce acidity through bacterial activity, but those bacteria cannot live in alkaline soil. Fertigation with acid fertilizers act like the head of a match that starts the oxidation process that buns the matchstick. Osidation reactions in the soil can change the availability of all elements.
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