Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1135/en

Ripened compost is a plant-animal product. It is so not only because animal excretions and other components from domestic animals are mixed in, but because the process of humification as such could not take place without the astral efficacy of the small-creature world of the compost heap. The main components are of a plant nature; their transformation into humus is essentially subject to the activity and organising force of the animals. Compost is therefore not a lusty, vegetative-growth-forcing fertiliser. Its effect is one that shapes and forms the vegetative. This makes it the fertiliser for all those cultivated plants that bear fruit primarily in the vegetative — whether grass, herb or tree. This concerns meadow and pasture husbandry, garden and field vegetable growing, as well as fruit growing. Fruit formation, in an expanded sense, here means a substance-building that accumulates in individual organs of the plant, filling them with spatial presence, whose nourishing quality is oriented toward the needs of human being and animal. This nutritive capacity calls for a fertiliser that holds back the growth and reproductive force straining toward seed formation and allows it to be reshaped by the present radiations of the sun and the planetary cosmos and formed into nutritive substance. This fertiliser places itself ordering and shaping into the working of forces in the plants. It is the black, crumbling stable humus.