Plants Don’t Use Many Nutrients
How can we grow food year after year and not run out of nutrients? An important fact is that plants don’t use a lot of nutrients. van Helmont did an interesting experiment in 1684, where he showed that you could grow a 164 pound tree from a couple of ounces of soil.
The amount of minerals in food is very small compared to the amount in soil. But how small?
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