Want a great garden? Just add rock dust!
Thought the avid gardeners might be interested in this.
A Scottish couple discovered that if they added crushed rock dust to their garden, the resultant produce had ten times the nutrients of store bought stuff.
Plus, for bonus points, what could be better than football sized cabbages? Exercise and nutrition all in one - the perfect combination!
A Scottish couple discovered that if they added crushed rock dust to their garden, the resultant produce had ten times the nutrients of store bought stuff.
Plus, for bonus points, what could be better than football sized cabbages? Exercise and nutrition all in one - the perfect combination!
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Permalink Reply by Kelly Myra on -
I've got it on my garden as well as ocean minerals.
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Permalink Reply by Anthony on -
Those roots have to get really deep though...and why not give them a head start?
And the minerals have been leached out for decades and even centuries...Doug Graham can be a real wet blanket. Give the plants as much minerals as they can take!
How's Miami!!???
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Permalink Reply by Dave on -
right...and then the leaves fall (which are mineralized) onto the top soil... thats how nature does rock dust. but its good for garden applications which are basically exported nature humans have made.
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Permalink Reply by MeadowLark on -
Yup! It's pretty cool how God did all of this:)
It is fun to garden and play with this awesome creation.
i don't know anything about 'rock dust' specifically; but what about Diatomaceous Earth?
MeadowLark
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Permalink Reply by Dorien Herremans on -
This is what David Wolfe was talking about in the rawkathon.
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Permalink Reply by telefunken on -
I've been adding Azomite (finely ground, broad spectrum rock dust) to my worm composting bins for years. The worms eat all my fruit and veggie scraps, newspaper, cardboard and rock dust and poop out one of the best garden soil amendments available.
My theory is that since worms need some "grit" to properly digest their foods...why not use a high quality rock dust and let the worms incorporate the dust into their castings. When the garden plants receive the castings as fertilizer, they will also benefit from bio available, full spectrum trace minerals via the Azomite.
After years of unscientific backyard trials, I can say without hesitation that these worm castings support healthier plant growth than any other compost I've tried. Compost is good, but worm casting compost is superior and I think the rock dust is a significant factor.
----tele
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Permalink Reply by Anthony on
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I use azomite...unbelieveable stuff. Check out "Secrets of the Soil" for the good chapter on azomite.
The only plants that were bothered in my garden were tomatillos...nothing else was touched. It boggles my mind that people believe they have to spray.
AZOMITE RULES.
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Permalink Reply by telefunken on
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are you soil growing wheatgrass..... or on paper towels with OceanGrown?
I grow in soil mostly and I think this the best way to use Azomite.
I want to play around with OceanGrown soon.
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Permalink Reply by telefunken on
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Me too Anthony. Nothing like observable results to drive the point home. I think rock dust amendments are critical for growers who focus on plant health, nutrition and taste (shelf life too...)
ROCK THE DUST >>> !!!
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Permalink Reply by Joel on -
Hawaii island is overrun with rocks, lava rocks!
I said somebody should be in business crushing this stuff. I'm positive that we are sitting on a goldmine here. Soil + rock dust gotta be huge in combination.
Secrets of the Soil - great book, gets into the devic and cosmos stuff.
One Straw Revolution - another one of the really synchronistic garden reads.
And then Hilton Hotema talks about minerals, and that plants don't really eat minerals, they just need minerals present in the (demineralized) cells to function best, just like us!
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Permalink Reply by Dave on
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what i believe is that you need a strong bacterial support network to incorporate the added minerals. so you need to make sure you have bacteria in your garden. it may take a season to get it really working for you. but depending on if your just making your garden.
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