Summer Moon of the First Harvests
I’m almost one and a half months into the International Ag Labs supplement program called High Brix Gardens. This morning I sprayed a product for general plant health, fish oil, mainly. When I look at the tomatoes, eggplants, tomatillos, peppers, carrots and beets, I see healthy, vigorous plants with lots of fruit or roots. The healthy, vigorous look seems to have come from the supplements.
Over the weekend I’m going to use friend Bill Schmidt’s refractometer to measure the brix value of fruits and vegetables from our garden and orchard. “When used on plant sap it is primarily a measure of the carbohydrate level in plant juices.”
“…mineral composition is not the only component of nutrition to be found in plants. It is the cheapest to analyze and is the foundation of al the other nutritional components of plants such as vitamins, amino acid profile, enzymes, sterols, and essential oils among many others. Since all these components contribute to the total dissolved solids we use the brix readings as the general indicator of quality and the mineral composition as the specific indicators of quality.” High Brix Gardens