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Improving your Garden Chelation

Chelation is a process by which a material is bound and the charge is changed to make it attractive or unattractive to the plant root.

Mike Usry
Mike Usry — Founder & CEO
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What is chelation?

Wikipedia states:

  1. A chelating agent is a substance whose molecules can form several bonds to a single metal ion. In other words, a chelating agent is a multidentate ligand. An example of a simple chelating agent is ethylenediamine.

That is a bit of a mouthful and certainly not in layman’s terms. Matt is going to break it down a bit differently. Since we deal with agriculture, we will relate the definition like this:

Chelation is a process by which a material is bound and the charge is changed to make it attractive OR unattractive to the plant root.

Watch the video below to learn more about garden chelation and its benefits to your plants and crops. You will begin to understand how our products work in order to help deliver vital nutrients to your garden and fields.

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Mike Usry
Mike Usry

Founder & CEO

20+ years in organic agriculture • Humate & soil biology specialist

With years of experience in humate deposits and soil biology, Mike brings practical knowledge from the field to every conversation. He founded Southland Organics to create sustainable solutions that work with nature, not against it.

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