Summary
In summary, spring is presenting us with favourable growing conditions which will come as a relief to many following a year of extreme drought and flood. Utilising these conditions to prioritise biological soil repair through diverse plant growth and probiotic management will likely set growers up for increasing resilience to abiotic stressors, pests and diseases, and increasing fertility with fewer inputs into the future.
This spring is an ideal season for soil growing, before the stress of summer compounds the problems from the year to date.
Biocast is one tool that could help you with this, alongside careful animal management and diverse, growing groundcover. Without careful management and this prioritisation, we risk losing the long-term opportunities that this season represents in favour of short-term gains that will be fraught with problems ranging from pests and diseases, to nutrient deficiencies, to greater flooding and drying and erosion.
![Where are you starting the season? Where are you heading? [Picture of stunted purple grass and bare ground and picture of soft grass and herbs]](http://biocast.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Biological-outlook-sept-25-5.jpg "Biological outlook sept 25A)")
![Will the fruit hold, , or succumb to pest, disease and malnutrition? [Picture of many young lime fruit next to leaves that show nutrient deficiency and insect damage]](http://biocast.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Biological-outlook-sept-25-2.jpg "Biological outlook sept 25 (2)")
![Where are you starting the season? Where are you moving towards? [Picture of wilting spinach and robust tomato]](http://biocast.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Biological-outlook-sept-25-3.jpg "Biological outlook sept 25 (3)")
What will this season bring?
In short, BoM is predicting a warm, wet spring and summer for pretty well all of eastern Australia. Great growing weather right?!
Trouble ahead?
Depending on how you’re coming into the season though, it could come with a set of challenges – it’s been such an extreme year so far! From extreme rain on the coast to extreme drought in southern Australia, potentially you aren’t placed as well as you could be to make the most of the season.
We predict that areas where soil biology has been hard hit could be prone to some significant problems, especially come summer. Soil could have trouble holding on to water, even where it was too wet seeming moments ago. Pests, diseases and weeds will be big ones we foresee. Soil issues like erosion and compaction are also on the cards.
Does it have to be this way? The blessing we see is in the mild spring we seem to be getting, giving us a chance to bolster soil biology and mitigate the worst of these impacts where the starting point is low; or hit a bumper season if you are coming in well!
We discuss a few strategies in the outlook document, and of course you have to look at what’s right for you in your context. Right now though we want to talk about how Biocast might help.
Using Biocast this season
With it’s complex mix of diverse microbes, enzymes, hormones, fulvic acid and more, Biocast will help you kick start the biological function of the soil coming out of winter and some of those tough conditions. Of course it’s all made by worms, which makes it more plant and soil health promoting than anything we humans could contrive, in our opinion! There’s plenty of science to back that up too, like this review of how vermi-products are effective against pathogenic fungi, or this one showing how vermiliquid (Biocast) can unlock phosphorus in Aussie soils. There are so many more, and they all point to the increase in plant health and soil fertility you get with application.
We recommend getting in now with a foliar if you haven’t yet (or when practical for those still-boggy areas!) Some are already seeing fantastic results on fruit trees for example with off the charts flowering. We would then do another in late spring in preparation for summer, and even an additional one in October for those chasing big results or wanting to capitalise on the long-term opportunities.
For many, a multi species seeding will be an important way to return some fertility to the soil. Use Biocast as a seed dressing for best establishment, including getting them going into existing perennial groundcover (let us know if you want to chat about that). Using Biocast on any seeding is an efficient way of helping your soil at the same time as getting your new plant off to a healthy start.
[If you’re north of Sydney and interested in multi species seeding, check out or free download ‘Pasture Dieback: 60+ unaffected species that will help you fill your feed gap and improve your soil‘, available here. It’s a handy resource for anyone, but one of our predictions (shared by others in the space) is that this summer will see a big spread of pasture dieback in NSW and Qld. It only kills grasses so planting other species is something really effective you can do now to mitigate any potential damage.]
What do you think? Will our predictions be right? Or do you think we’re way out? What will you do with these ideas?
Remember, it’s not all or nothing. You can try different things on different parts of your property and learn from the responses. YOU are part of the biological function of your place!
We’d love to hear from you. If you sign up for the full outlook (see near the top of this page), where we go into much more detail, hit reply and let us know your thoughts! As always, if you’d like to order some Biocast or chat more about how you might use it in your situation, be sure to get in touch via phone or email.
