Our TOP Organic Fertilizer is radically different because we change the nitrogen from the 100% soluble manure form – nitrate nitrogen designated NO3 – to the insoluble ammonium nitrogen form – designated NH4. This important nitrogen capture which prevents plant burning is accomplished while retaining the tremendous micro-nutrition in raw organic poultry litter.

TOP Organic Fertilizer contains a minimum N-P-K formula of 4-2-2. The nitrogen component is 89.5 percent insoluble and 10.5 percent soluble. This is a complete fertilizer with all of the other micronutrients needed by the plant.

Organic Growing Systems, Inc., subscribes to the philosophy that when we grow plants, whether in the garden or on a larger scale, there is a bit of the farmer in all of us. And in support of the ‘farmer’, we are committed to protecting the environment in which the growing takes place. No longer does feeding a plant necessitate use of quantities of water to wash away dangerous pollutants. No longer do we have to worry about burning tender roots. Now we are able to provide a fertilizer that truly can claim to be one type meeting all needs.

The same fertilizer that nourishes lawns is appropriate when growing organic fruits and vegetables. Feeding trees that provide shade or that provide a harvest of fruits or nuts does not require a different fertilizer from one that promotes growth of grasses, foods or decorative plants.

The key to TOP Organic Fertilizer's success is its ability to enrich the soil and feed the microbe population. The resultant microbe bloom will convert the nitrogen into ALL the essential amino acids and feed the plants. Unlike synthetic fertilizers, TOP Organic Fertilizer feeds the soil. A healthy growing medium will produce healthy plants, allowing them to draw much needed nitrogen from the air and accessing a full complement of micronutrients from the soil. Additional nitrogen is available directly from the fertilizer as well as in the organic faction of the soil.

Plants able to get nitrogen in this way will not be subject to the burning that is traditionally associated with uncomposted manure or synthetic fertilizers. TOP Organic Fertilizer is guaranteed not to burn. Ammonium nitrogen (soluble NH4) is slowly changed to ammonia nitrogen (insoluble NO3) by the microbes.

The nutrition available to the plants is in elemental form. The chemicals are not complexed, but rather a carefully balanced array available for uptake through the root systems. The result is the necessary photosynthesis. Available organic sulfur maximizes chlorophyll production and plant nitrogen intake.

TOP Organic Fertilizer supplies organic complex carbohydrates (polysaccharides) to the soil. These energy sources are normally supplied to plants by insects, worms, grubs and microbes. The organic fertilizer offsets the lack of these in many soils. TOP Organic Fertilizer is 24 percent carbon by volume. Carbon eating microbes then are able to contribute to polysaccharide fixation.

The micronutrients present make their major contribution to plant growth as constituents of the enzyme and hormone systems and participate in biochemical oxidation and reduction reactions. The enzyme nitrogenase provides a site for combining nitrogen with hydrogen to form ammonium in the fixation of atmospheric nitrogen. Enzymes are not destroyed in the reaction, but are used over and over again. The presence of iron, manganese and zinc are critical for chlorophyll synthesis.

The presence of magnesium is important as a component of chlorophyll. It aids in translocation of starch and formation of fats and oils involved in adsorption, movement and utility of phosphorous.

Of all the nutrients supplied to the plants, N-P-K are required in the greatest amounts and are most often deficient. Of the three, N (Nitrogen) is stored only in organic matter where it is accumulated through fixation. P (Phosphate), though not K (Potash), is also stored in soil organic matter. And Sulfur is similarly stored. S, with N and P, is released for organic combination by mineralization. Each of the elements occurs in protein or protein-like compounds in plants, their residue and the organic faction of the soil.