Replanting A Gardener's Golden Grail: Nitrogen-Fixing FixationUnity Consciousness #303

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Is nitrogen the only thing that needs fixing for healthy growth?

Any gardener worth their germination rate knows the legume family are nitrogen fixers by trade. This has become a gardener's golden grail. Belief in the the nitrogen-fixing ability of beans to aid plant growth has become so fixed, the growth of more understanding has been halted.

Regardless of how nitrogen-fixing is explained in many places, “Fixing” simply means to change a nutrient from one form to another. A nutrient is an element or a combination of elements.

Most, if not all organisms, including humans, bacteria and plants, fix nitrogen. These organisms change the form of nitrogen to allow use by themselves and/or other organisms. In other words, all plants “fix” nitrogen for themselves and for the organisms that eat plants.

One way nitrogen is fixed is via the digestive process. Part of this process breaks down molecules which makes nitrogen available for other body processes. Part of this process also includes fixing nitrogen in the form of liquid and solid waste.

When human cells produce amino acids and then proteins, these cells are fixing nitrogen.

The decomposition process is partly a nitrogen-fixing process.

We are told how many bacteria are in a spoonful of soil. It turns out that bacteria are heavy fixers of nitrogen, even more so than beans (legumes). It would be better for plant growth if gardeners focused on the health of the bacteria in soil rather than focusing on beans (legumes) as a golden grail.

By the way, nitrogen is also fixed by lightning and nitrogen is also contained in rainwater. Thunderstorms provide a double punch of a nitrogen lunch for plants.

Furthermore, all nutrients, not just nitrogen, are “fixed” from one form to another to allow the use of the nutrient. Plants need many nutrients and most, if not all of these nutrients, need to be fixed “changed, transformed.” Same goes for the nutrients all organisms need. Phosphorus is fixed. Potassium is fixed. Calcium is fixed. Magnesium is fixed. And so on.

Changing the form of nutrients (elements) is one of the fundamental universal occurrences. It began with spirit being fixed into matter and spirit and matter being fixed into all else.

Is nitrogen the only thing that needs fixing for healthy growth?