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ALL ORGANICS Sweet Corn!

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Here is a picture of my sweet corn grown with All Organics Worm Castings. How do you like them tassels!?
This is the best corn I have ever grown.

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Crackdown on pesticide use may loom for U.S. farmers

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What happens when farmers who regularly use pesticides are not allowed by law to use them?  We may find out if the nearly 400 pesticides are made illegal due to a lawsuit in the works from the Center for Biologicial Diversity. 

For Details see the following article:Crackdown on Pesticide Use

Whatever the opinion on governmental involvement and potential damage to wildlife, more and more people want their food grown without pesticides and chemical fertilizers 

If these farmers do not find a successful way to manage their crops without pesticides production may drop significantly. 

All Organics LLC was formed to help farmers and home gardeners to grow their own food without the need for pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers.  Our flagship products are  All Organics Worm Castings and All Organics Living Extract. 

A healthy soil  translates into healthy plants.  Our Worm Castings provide the microorganisms that colonize the soil and translate nutrients into plant available form.  Microorganisms are the link healthy soils need to fight disease and insects.  When a plant has nutrients available it can through its own intelligence take these in and use them to prevent and fight disease and insects.  Our Living Extract is sprayed on the plants and the soil.  It coats the stem and leaf structure with positive microorganisms.  The stomata on the plant open under ideal temperatures and let in nutrients in the Living Extract as well. 

We at All Organics LLC are comitted to providing solutions for a healthy environment and healthy food network.  For more information contact Brian Ezzell and Patrick Wilcox.  You will find our booth at the Prescott Farmers Market until mid October (Saturday's 7:30-12:00) and in Scottsdale for the winter.  More details to come.....

Patrick Wilcox 928-776-4637

Brian Ezzell 928-227-2539

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Farmers Market Worm Compost

All Organics at the Prescott Farmers Market. We are there every Saturday in the Yavapai College parking lot from 7:30 - 12:00 noon. We are currently selling worm castings and a live extract product. We will be adding more products soon. Stop by and see us! We are also at the farmers market in Prescott Valley on tuesday's and Chino Valley on Thursday's from 3:00-6:00 p.m. Contact Brian or Patrick for more information 928-227-2539 or 928-776-4637.

Gopher Control, Prescott Yard Care

This is the best gopher trap I have found. I have trapped 5 gophers in our yard over a 3 month period. The great thing about it is that unlike the previous traps I have used, it does not have to be buried. So it is easy to spot and tell if a gopher has set it off. The key to setting it that I have found is to position the hole facing south. This guarantees that light will enter the hole. When the gopher sees the light it wants to close the hole and enters the trap. That is the last light it will see!

We can set these for you.


However, if you want to try it on your own you might check out ebay for these. That is where I bought them, however they aren't easy to find there. Here is a link where you can buy them also:


Redwood Gopher Getter

Patrick Wilcox
Land Maintenance LLC
928-776-4637

Benefits of Worm Castings

   Worm castings are the richest natural fertilizer known to humans. That's right: as little as a tablespoon of pure worm castings provides enough organic plant nutrients to feed a 6" potted plant for more than two months. Worm castings stimulate plant growth more than any other natural product on the market. Unlike animal manure and artificial fertilizers it is absorbed easily and immediately by plants. But Worm Castings don't only stimulate plant growth: they also enhance the ability of your soil to retain water (because of its texture), and it even inhibits root diseases such as root rot.

What Are Worm Castings?
     Worm Castings contain a highly active biological mixture of bacteria, enzymes, remnants of plant matter and animal manure, as well as earthworm cocoons (while damp). The castings are rich in water-soluble plant nutrients, and contain more than 50% more humus than what is normally found in topsoil.
Worm Castings are packed with minerals that are essential for plant growth, such as concentrated nitrates, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium and calcium. It also contains manganese, copper, zinc, cobalt, borax, iron, carbon and nitrogen. However, the best of all is that these minerals are immediately available to the plant, without the risk of ever burning the plant. Remember that animal manure and chemical fertilizers have to be broken down in the soil before the plant can absorb them.

6 Reasons to use Worm Castings

1. The humus in the worm castings extracts toxins and harmful fungi and bacteria from the soil. Worm Castings therefore have the ability to fight off plant diseases.
2. The worm castings have the ability to fix heavymetals in organic waste. This prevents plants from absorbing more of these chemical compounds than they need. These compounds can then be released later when the plants need them.
3. Worm Castings act as a barrier to help plants grow in soil where the pH levels are too high or too low. They prevent extreme pH levels from making it impossible for plants to absorb nutrients from the soil.
4. The humic acid in Worm Castings stimulate plant growth, even in very low concentrations. The humic acid is in an ionically distributed state in which it can easily be absorbed by the plant, over and above any normal mineral nutrients. Humic acid also stimulates the development of micro flora populations in the soil.
5. Worm Castings increase the ability of soil to retain water. The worm castings form aggregates, which are mineral clusters that combine in such a way that they can withstand water erosion and compaction, and also increase water retention.
6. Worm Castings reduce the acid-forming carbon in the soil, and increase the nitrogen levels in a state that the plant can easily use. Organic plant wastes usually have a carbon-nitrogen ratio of more than 20 to 1. Because of this ratio, the nitrogen is unavailable to plants, and the soil around the organic waste becomes acidic.

Yard Care and Irrigation versus xeriscape

Many claim that we use too much water for our plants here in the southwest and we should not plant non native plants because we of water table shortages.  A new study from Northern Illinois University may suggest the opposite.  Although this is for crops, there may not be a significant difference to landscape maintenance plants.


Crop Irrigation May Cool Midwest Temperatures
Researchers from Northern Illinois University suggest a
link between agriculture in the American Midwest and
observed declines in summer temperatures and increased
rainfall in the region.
An NIU team of climatologists led by David Changnon
believes that increased production of irrigated row crops and
closer plant spacing — and the resulting growth in water
consumption per acre — are the likely source. Properly applied irrigation water is
used by plants, evaporated and then condensed into clouds, falling as rain,
rather than running off into rivers and streams or soaking back into the ground.
Current climate models fail to take irrigation into account. A future study will
compare simulation results with and without irrigation to try to clarify the
source of increased rainfall on the Great Plains. For more information, visit
www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55527/title/crop_irrigation_could_be
__cooling_midwest.