Want a great garden? Just add rock dust!

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Permalink Reply by Kelly Myra on December 16, 2008 at 4:01am

I've got it on my garden as well as ocean minerals.

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Permalink Reply by Anthony on January 20, 2009 at 9:12pm

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 March 25, 2009 at 12:43am

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 December 16, 2008 at 10:33am

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 December 16, 2008 at 8:02am

This is what David Wolfe was talking about in the rawkathon.

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Permalink Reply by telefunken on December 16, 2008 at 10:33am

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 January 20, 2009 at 9:13pm

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 March 25, 2009 at 1:09pm

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 March 25, 2009 at 1:12pm

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 January 20, 2009 at 9:36pm

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 Paddy on January 20, 2009 at 9:53pm

http://remineralize.org/joomla/

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Permalink Reply by Dave on March 25, 2009 at 12:42am

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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