New Study Proves: Compost Helps Fight Off Plant Diseases!
The Edie New Center has a great article about how compost can help protect your plants against soil-borne diseases. This means that you’ll spend less time applying chemicals to keep your plants happy. The article actually refers to university studies that prove that plants are healthier and fight off diseases when the soil contains compost. Here’s a excerpt from the article:
But a study commissioned by the Waste & Resources Action Plan (WRAP) looked at recent research into almost 50 types of disease affecting plants and concludes the evidence that compost made from garden or food waste helps suppress all manner of wilts, rots and turf disease is overwhelming. The study was carried out by the University of Warwick’s horticultural research wing, Warwick HRI, and demonstrates that mixing compost into soil or peat to a level of 20 per cent or above enables ‘good’ microbes in the compost to fight off many common pathogens.
