Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/1139/en

The Compost Manuring in Horticulture

As on permanent grassland, so too in horticulture the ripening soil-rest is absent; one crop follows another. The soil must be held, for the greater part of the year, at a high fertility level in the growth-eager mood of spring. The building toward food or fodder fruit does not unfold in the generative phase but in the time of most intensive growth. Large harvest masses of fresh, vigorous substance leave land and farm. What remains behind — chiefly the root mass — becomes nutritive humus for the following crop. Against this, the etheric-biologically shaping force of the astralized stable humus falls into the background. What otherwise plays itself out on the arable land during the soil's resting periods of its own accord — the reshaping of nutritive into stable humus — must be supplied to the garden ground from outside as ripened compost. Depending on the type of crop, it works specifically, mildly aromatizing on taste and smell, consolidating the tissues, preserving freshness, and intensifying gloss and colouration.