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Living Earth

Your soil is literally teeming with life. If you viewed a tiny sample of ordinary topsoil through a microscope, you would see a thriving population of bacteria, algae, fungi and protozoans. These microbes feed on decaying vegetation and nutrients provided in your fertilizer. They even feed on each other! You could feasibly grow grass in completely sterile soil, but the inputs and work would be tremendous. All those little guys down there are your friends.

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