Re: [nafex] fertilzing

What always seems odd to me about the remineralization people -- at least the ones I've run into at conferences trying to sell rock dusts -- is they don't seem to want to pay attention to what's already in the particular soil.

Different soils are lacking in different things. Those things may or may not be present in suitable amounts in the rock dust from any particular quarry. In addition, different soils are high in different things, sometimes to the point of excess at which they interfere with specific plants' ability to take up other nutrients (a problem which may occur at different points with different plants.) Those things also may or may not be present in significant amounts in the rock dust from any particular quarry. But the recommendations always seem to be, "It doesn't matter what's there to start with! Apply more of our rock dust!" Isn't there a risk of getting soils further out of balance, rather than further into balance? Lawrence's specific ground may benefit from the minerals coming out of those specific quarries: but that doesn't mean that all fields will be benefited by applying rock dusts from any quarry/quarries willing to sell them.

And how much of the planet do we want to dig up in order to apply it to other portions of the planet?



-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 6A now I think
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale


On May 19, 2015, at 7:10 PM, Lawrence London wrote:

> Fruit and vegetables grown in well mineralized soils have: better flavor,
> larger size, better keeping qualities and are more disease and insect
> resistant.
> I have applied hundreds of tons of 4 different kinds of quarry rock dusts
> to 5 acres of my open land.






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