Planted Passion Pty Ltd

Planted Passion Pty Ltd Fertiliser importer supplying to broadacre, pastoralists & horticulture PLUS organic vegetable grower www.plantedpassionagriculture.com.au

18/06/2026

Building Soil Health for Long-Term Organic Production

Today, we completed one of our major soil-building blends designed to improve soil structure, biological activity, nutrient reserves, and crop performance for future brassica and root vegetable production.

Applied Per Hectare
✅ 750 kg BaseBuilder P
✅ 1,600 kg BaseBuilder K
✅ 600 kg Active Silica Granule
✅ 30 kg Boron 21%

Total Nutrients Applied
🔹 110 kg Phosphorus
🔹 531 kg Potassium
🔹 300 kg Calcium
🔹 70 kg Magnesium
🔹 228 kg Silicon
🔹 6.3 kg Boron

What Does This Mean For The Soil?

This application is about much more than simply feeding the next crop.

The phosphorus provides energy for root development, microbial activity, and nutrient cycling. Potassium supports carbohydrate production, water regulation, and overall crop performance. Calcium improves soil structure and helps create a more friable, biologically active soil. Silicon strengthens both soil and plant resilience, while boron assists calcium movement, sugar transport, and root growth.

Together, these nutrients help:
🦠 Increase microbial activity and diversity
🦠 Stimulate beneficial fungi and mycorrhizal populations
🌱 Improve root development and nutrient uptake
🌱 Increase soil aggregation and stability
💧 Improve water infiltration and water-holding capacity
🌾 Enhance nutrient retention and nutrient-use efficiency
🌎 Build long-term soil fertility and resilience

Benefits For Organic Brassicas
For crops such as broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage, strong soil foundations are critical.
🥦 Stronger root systems
🥦 Improved calcium uptake and utilisation
🥦 Larger and denser heads
🥦 Improved plant vigour
🥦 Better tolerance to heat and moisture stress
🥦 Higher quality and shelf life
🥦 Greater nutrient density

Benefits For Root Vegetables
For carrots, beetroot, onions and turnips:
🥕 Improved root initiation and establishment
🥕 Greater root and bulb development
🥕 Improved shape and uniformity
🥕 Better skin quality
🥕 Reduced splitting and deformities
🥕 Improved storage potential
🥕 Higher dry matter and crop quality

Why We Invest In Soil? because healthy crops start with healthy soil.

17/06/2026

🌱 Strong Roots = Strong Crops 🌱
No matter whether you're growing grapes, avocados, vegetables, broadacre crops, or pasture, the root system is the foundation of productivity.

A larger, healthier root system helps crops:
✅ Access more water and nutrients
✅ Improve drought tolerance
✅ Increase nutrient use efficiency
✅ Build stronger plant health and resilience
✅ Support higher yields and better quality produce
✅ Maximise the benefits of soil biology

At Planted Passion Agriculture, our products are designed to support roots from multiple angles:

🌿 Bio-Active Range (CMS, Seaw**d, FulvicMax, Glutamic Acid & Algen Ultra) helps stimulate soil biology, root initiation, nutrient uptake and stress recovery.

🪨 BaseBuilder, Active Minerals & Vibro Mineral Range (BaseBuilder P & K, VibroPHOSPHATE, VibroCALCITE & VibroSILICATE) provides the phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulphur and silicon needed to build strong, efficient root systems and maximise nutrient cycling.

Healthy roots don't just feed the plant — they determine the crop's ability to convert sunlight, water, and nutrients into yield.

Invest in the roots, and the roots will invest in your crop. 🌱💪

17/06/2026

This 3.5 ha certified organic field will be full of vegetables come 🌿 spring and summer.

But first a large a large soil bed prepares over 20 tonnes of 🌿 BaseBuilder granule and around 42 tonnes of lime sand.

From here, it will be cultivated to a depth of 25cm ready for transplanting 🌿 to begin in September.

With broccoli, cauliflower, red and green cabbage, beetroot, turnip, onions, and 🌿 trials of carrots, it will be a very productive space.

To ensure consistency in growth, there will be weekly transplanting, a regular granule, fertigation and foliar fertiliser 🌿 program, efficient mechanical w**d management, and multiple weekly harvests.

It's been a long process to get here, but I am looking forward 🌿 to things progressing.

Yesterday, I received my soil tests of my organic field crop area, which provided clear data of soil limitations and pos...
16/06/2026

Yesterday, I received my soil tests of my organic field crop area, which provided clear data of soil limitations and positive traits.

This data I have used to calculate the different fertiliser needed and volumes per ha applications to convert soil macro and micro nutrients to optimal levels.

Block 1 south and north section levels sit as following
🌿 Phosphorus 57-58ppm (ideal levels 40-90ppm)
🌿 Potassium 186-192ppm (ideal levels 245-400ppm)
🌿 Sulphur 101-124ppm (ideal levels 12-45ppm)
🌿 Calcium 631-722ppm (ideal levels 1620-2700ppm)
🌿 Magnesium 230-256ppm (ideal levels 200-400ppm)
🌿 Boron 0.77-0.84ppm (ideal levels 2.2-6ppm)
🌿 Copper 0.90-1.10ppm (ideal levels 2.5-10ppm)
🌿 Zinc 3.35-3.76ppm (ideal levels 2.2-11ppm)
🌿 Iron 90-101ppm (ideal levels 35-230ppm)
🌿 Manganese 20-21ppm (ideal levels 18-70ppm)

These levels are going to lead to an extensive soil preparation stage of the below products, then rotary hoed to a depth of 25cm.

🌱 Lime sand 12 t/ha
🌱 BaseBuilder N 500 kg/ha
🌱 BaseBuilder P 750 kg/ha
🌱 BaseBuilder K 1.6 t/ha
🌱 BaseBuilder Silica 600 kg/ha
🌱 BaseBuilder Zeolite 2.5 t/ha
🌱 Boron 21% 30 kg/ha
🌱 Copper oxide 75% 10kg/ha

These volumes of product equates to the following of units of nutrition and final ppm once added to the above soil ppm.

🍃 Phosphorus 108 kg (44 ppm added) new soil levels 102 ppm
🍃 Potassium 584 kg (238 ppm added) new soil 425-430 ppm
🍃 Sulphur 37 kg (15ppm added) new soil 116-139 ppm
🍃 Calcium 4691 kg (1915 ppm added) new soil 2546-2637 ppm
🍃 Magnesium 242 kg (99 ppm added) new soil 329-354 ppm
🍃 Boron 6.3 kg (2.57 ppm added) new soil 3.34-3.41 ppm
🍃 Copper 7.5 kg (3.06 ppm added) new soil 3.96-4.16 ppm
🍃 Zinc 1.46 kg (0.60 ppm added) new soil 3.95 - 4.36 ppm
🍃 Iron 58 kg (23.7 ppm added) new soil 114-125 ppm
🍃 Manganese 9.6 kg (3.9ppm applied) new soil 24-25 ppm

This doesn’t include other benefits such as adjust pH, utilising soil fertility, improving CEC, reducing soil sodium and chloride.

It's an extensive program but it'll create a soil profile that begins at optimal nutrient levels, that provides a fully functional soil for beneficial biology and plant growth to work in a luxury environment.

16/06/2026

🌿 Why Zeolite Should Be Part of Every Soil Preparation Program 🌿

Not all soil amendments are created equal.
Our BaseBuilder Zeolite is a naturally occurring volcanic mineral with an exceptionally high Cation Exchange Capacity (CEC) of 117.34 meq/100g, making it one of the most effective tools available for improving nutrient efficiency and soil performance.

Unlike fertilisers that supply nutrients, zeolite acts like a nutrient bank within the soil profile.

🌿 Holds ammonium nitrogen, potassium, calcium, and magnesium within the root zone
🌿 Reduces nutrient leaching and fertiliser losses
🌿 Improves nutrient buffering capacity in lighter soils
🌿 Increases water holding capacity while maintaining aeration
🌿 Enhances root exploration and root development
🌿 Supports stronger biological activity and soil resilience

With 31.8% silicon, BaseBuilder Zeolite also contributes valuable silicon to the soil, helping support stronger plant structure and improved stress tolerance.

🌱 Ideal During Soil Preparation

Whether preparing vegetable beds, vineyards, orchards, or broadacre paddocks, BaseBuilder Zeolite helps create a more efficient root zone before planting.

🌱 Excellent In Potting Mixes

Zeolite is also a valuable addition to propagation and nursery mixes by:
• Improving nutrient retention
• Reducing fertiliser wastage
• Improving moisture management
• Creating a more stable root environment
• Supporting stronger seedling establishment
A healthier root zone doesn't start with more fertiliser.

It starts with creating soil that can hold and efficiently utilise the nutrients you apply.
BaseBuilder Zeolite – Building nutrient efficiency from the ground up.

Closing in on the end of the financial year has provided me with 🌿 self reflection of what I've achieved in the past 12 ...
16/06/2026

Closing in on the end of the financial year has provided me with 🌿 self reflection of what I've achieved in the past 12 months.

Most importantly, it has refined and defined the path forward on what I plan to 🌿 achieve with organic greenhouse and field crop production in the next 12 months.

That has led to a few purchases to improve efficiency and labour in day to day tasks.

The biggest one is a second 90hp CASE row cropper tractor.

This investment will allow dual tasks to be completed at the same time, such 🌿 as fertiliser spreading and transplanting or harvest and bed preparation.

I'm looking forward to delivery over the next week or so.

14/06/2026

Further research and investment into working smarter, not harder, has led 🌿 me to look at fruit and vegetable graders.

With the goal to create more consistency in organic crop production, such as planting 500x tomato seedlings 🌿 every 2x weeks, means harvesting and packing will need to be efficient.

Incorporating automatic machines like this allows labour to be more productive 🌿 on our picking and packing days.

11/06/2026

It's always this time of year I begin looking at opportunities to strengthen 🌿 the company for the next financial year.

At the moment, I'm looking at every end of the production line from the seedling propagation, transplanting, w**ding, 🌿 training, harvesting, cleaning, and packing.

That leads me to research and discuss with manufacturers overseas to import two different fruit and vegetable 🌿 cleaners to assist in the packing shed.

Whether it be freshly harvested root vegetables like beetroot with soil on them or 🌿 tomatoes with some blemishes on their skin It's important that proper cleaning and hygiene is carried out.

These are two machines I most likely will look at importing reading for spring production.

The more efficiently labour is managed in every area, the smarter we operate, and the increased efficiency and productivity occurs.

I was always interested and fascinated by organic farming, ever since I began 🌿 getting qualified in horticulture at the...
09/06/2026

I was always interested and fascinated by organic farming, ever since I began 🌿 getting qualified in horticulture at the age of 17.

Investing in my own organic greenhouse and field crop farms in an era of agriculture adversity, I have learnt passion 🌿 for the industry, and persistence in achieving the dream is extremely important.

But, the biggest character strength I've learnt is clarity in perspective 🌿 and mindset of where the industry is.

How flawed our food supply system is, how we will continue to lose farmers at a 🌿 record rate in the coming years, how local and quality food supply will reduce and no 🌿 matter how hard we work as farmers it is too late and nothing can prevent the train wreck that will occure.

The only chance to succeed and to find that small glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel is to question, challenge how smart can we farm.

How do we reduce labour, increase quality and yield, and reinvent the wheel 🌿 of operational efficiency.

This leads me to look at an additional mechanical w**der for 4x row crops of vegetables such as beetroot, turnip, carrots, onions, etc.

In any industry, w**d control is an extremely important issue that can compromise consistency in plant growth and yield if ignored.

It is machines like this and others such as mechanical 🌿 harvesters etc that I will need to research and consider to ensure success is attainable.

Most would think I'm either brave or crazy to invest in farming in this current 🌿 world but in my eyes Ive spent over 14 years creating a fertiliser company to provide capital and fertiliser for my own operations, I've purchased two farms before prices went crazy 🌿 and I have my own seedling nursery to add to my own closed loop system of an enterprise.

'Be brave enough to dream it and bold enough to reach out and grab it'

Why farm blind when you can farm smart?We are kicking this week off by sending off 16x soils to gets tested from my own ...
08/06/2026

Why farm blind when you can farm smart?

We are kicking this week off by sending off 16x soils to gets tested from my own 🌿 organic greenhouses and field crops.

Moving forward, the goal will be to take soil tests over both properties every 6 months.

From here soil levels of macro and micro nutrients, organic matter/carbon, pH, CEC and soil nutrient chemistry relationships ie Ca:Mg, K:Mg, P:Zn, etc will be monitored, and 🌿 supported with my own natural, mineral and organic fertiliser products.

To grow commercial organic produce, every link in the chain of perspective, knowledge, approach, and action will be strengthened.

From soil nutrient chemistry, soil structure and depth, beneficial biology performance to nutrient efficiency use but 🌿 different crops to placement of nutrition based on growth cycle, situation of growth, etc.

It seems complicated, but the goal is to create a blueprint that simplifies 🌿 the equation in productivity and performance.

Optimistically, we may receive soil results by the end of next 🌿 week, and then a big blend of BaseBuilder granule will be broadcast to create optimum nutrient levels ready for spring plantings.

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Manjimup, WA

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