Better Organix

What is soil? pt. 0

Put simply, soil is quite possibly the single most important resource to human survival.

Soil is front and centre to planet earth and everything living on and in it.

November 4, 2017

A Simple Home Soil Composition Test

To understand what is in your soil and what you will need to grow what you want, you’ll need to do a simple test first.

Test requirements

November 7, 2017

A Growing Guide for Short Day Crops

This post is about the Better Organix liquid product range and how it is a low phosphate system that relies on active biology to cycle phosphates on demand and at a rate set by our plants, not us.

What Is and How to Calculate Vapour Pressure Deficit (VPD)?

In this post, we explain the technical side of how to aid and optimise a plant’s nutrition and water uptake in when growing indoors in a controlled environment.

March 5, 2018

Tricking Your Strawberries Into Growing Bigger

If you want brilliant strawberries, for starters grow them through a simple red plastic mulch sheet.

November 6, 2017

Using Microbes is very important. Most people take our drinking water from the tap for granted. It has been treated with chlorine so we never have to worry about pathogenic microbes cramping our style.

Plant Biology

March 22, 2018

The Biology of Plant Transpiration and VPD

As a grower, one of the most important things to understand is plant transpiration and one of the handiest skills is learning to play within the boundaries of the drying power of your air, otherwise known as Vapour Pressure Deficit, or Difference.

Case Studies

July 12, 2018

BOX Fruit and Vegetable Market Now Open in Alicante, Spain

Hey all, just a quick taste of the mouthwatering work Andy, the bio-brains of the Better Organix outfit, has got going down in his farm in Alicante, Spain.

November 4, 2017

A Massive Harvest of Foot Long Runner Beans

No sweat here, just the Better Organix system at work. Root Better, Bio-Media Pro, K+Amino & Bio-Balance Media, for a low N, high K diet. 😉

Deep Dives

March 19, 2018

What Is and How to Calculate Vapour Pressure Deficit (VPD)?

In this post, we explain the technical side of how to aid and optimise a plant’s nutrition and water uptake in when growing indoors in a controlled environment.

March 21, 2018

Glossary of Fungi

This is a forever incomplete glossary of the realm of fungi to which we will continuously be adding terms, definitions and explanations. We encourage knowledge sharing and participation in uncovering or explaining the natural world.

March 21, 2018

Glossary of Nature

This is a glossary of nature which we will continuously update and expanded upon. We encourage participation in uncovering or explaining the natural world.

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Understanding Soil

What is soil? pt. 0

A Simple Home Soil Composition Test

A Growing Guide for Short Day Crops

Tips and Tricks

What Is and How to Calculate Vapour Pressure Deficit (VPD)?

Tricking Your Strawberries Into Growing Bigger

Preparing Water for Microbes

Plant Biology

The Biology of Plant Transpiration and VPD

Case Studies

BOX Fruit and Vegetable Market Now Open in Alicante, Spain

A Massive Harvest of Foot Long Runner Beans

Deep Dives

What Is and How to Calculate Vapour Pressure Deficit (VPD)?

Glossary of Fungi

Glossary of Nature