Q Do you use fertilizer?
A Yes we do and that’s a good thing and here’s why. Fertilizer is plant food, if you don’t provide food the plants can’t grow. Plants require thirteen minerals to be healthy and whether these come from a bag filled with powder or from decaying vegetation, the plants can’t tell the difference. Iron is iron whether it’s in a nail or in a leaf. THIS NEXT PART IS VERY IMPORTANT. Fertilizers can be misused. Most of the fertilizers sold for agricultural use contain only between one and three of the thirteen required nutrients. If applied by themselves, these fertilizers can actually cause unhealthy plants. Let me give you an analogy. Imagine that you have two children and that you feed one a balanced diet and the other you feed with only cake and coke. You would reasonably expect to have one healthy child and one large and unhealthy child. The answer at this point would not be to stop feeding your large child entirely as some may suggest but instead a reasonable person would choose to feed the child a balanced diet. This is what we do at Savannah; we feed our plants a carefully balanced diet which produces strong healthy plants that are capable of fighting off pests and diseases with their natural defenses. These healthy plants have longer shelf lives and higher nutrient densities than other poorly treated plants.
Q Do you use pesticides?
A At savannah, our plants are grown in greenhouses and as such, are protected from pests. In most cases, even if pests inadvertently enter the greenhouses they do not enter in sufficient numbers to pose economic risk. On those rare occasions when there is threat of economic damage, soaps and mineral oils are very effective at controlling the problems until harvest.
Q What does Hydroponic mean?
A Cultivation of plants in nutrient solution rather than in soil.
Q How can you grow plants without soil?
A Soil provides nutrients water and stability to plants. A carefully crafted blend of nutrients is dissolved in water which is then then pumped over the roots. The pipe that carries the nutrient rich water provides the stability for the plant.
Q Are Savannah products organic?
A http://www.agroservicesinternational.com/Articles/Organic hoax.pdf
Q. You stated that you wash your plants with chlorinated water. Is that safe?
A. Sodium hypochlorite (household bleach) rapidly decays in contact with organic matter, in this case lettuce. The decay byproducts are sodium chloride (table salt) and radical oxygen O1. Oxygen is its radical form O1, aggressively oxidizes (burns) organic matter like fungi bacteria and viruses. It is short lived and is either used up or converted to regular oxygen O2 before it ever leaves the processing facility. The table salt residue on the lettuce is too small to be detected by human senses.
