Soil Nutrition and Fertilizers with Col Johnson

Couldn't get enough of Col's morning session on Creating Natural Soil Systems? Or maybe you already know a bit and need some more specialized information? Come along to this awesome workshop all about soil nutrition, fertilizers and fertility. What does your soil (and the plants it grows) really need to be healthy? Col breaks it down for you!

Attendees will be given the fundamentals of soil and plant nutrition and how natural nutrient cycles work. As well as an understanding of why conventional systems break down and affect the nutrient cycling.

Attendees will learn:

• Fertilizer history
• Essential elements pros and cons
• Trace and non-essential elements
• Basics of natural nutrient cycling
• Organic fertilizing
• Foliar fertilizing
• Insects and Disease
• Microbial relationships
• Minerals and mineral nutrition

Youth Offer

This workshop is available to teenagers (12 to 18 years) accompanied by mum, dad or an adult guardian who have also paid to attend the workshop.

About the Facilitator

Colin is a Professional Horticulturist and has been growing plants for over 35 years. He also has over two decades experience in the Nursery & Garden Industry, specialising in retail and wholesale sales. He is a fanatical plant collector with a 6-acre collection of natives and exotics, with a focus on rare or uncommon trees from Australia and around the world. With a thirst for knowledge Col loves to delve in to the history of horticulture and has realized that there is far too much over-thinking regarding the growing and raising of healthy plants. He actively practices and promotes simple, natural gardening techniques.