Market Farming

["Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>]

Lawerence,
Its funny that you should bring up the Fertrell Co!  Dave Mattocks,
President of Fertrell, and I have been very good friends for years and he
just stopped into see me and we visited for the last couple of hours.  He
has been like a mentor to me and I have learned a lot about "Common Sense"
farming from this man.  The products that you mention are fine great to use.
These were the ones I was referring to in my previous post.  The only
concerns I have are for lime sources that are "hydrated lime" sources.  In
this area they have not responded well in releasing Ca and K and seem to
bind up other nutrients in the soil.  I would recommend the Gypsum at the
lawn and garden stores.

The reason I mentioned the Rock Phosphates is that when I see Low Phosphorus
levels as well as Low Calcium, the Black Rock and Soft Rock supply a
significant about of Calcium while replenishing the Phosphorus.  Thus,
reducing the cost of having to apply so much lime or gypsum!  I try to keep
the cost factor in mind when making recommendations, also.

Peg Cook
Cook's Consulting

pegcook AT northnet.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lflondon AT mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: market-farming
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2000 2:13 PM
Subject: Re: Website, links, literature on Remineralization


> On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:35:09 -0500, "Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>
> wrote:
>
> >Does this answer your question or were you looking for something else?
>
> In addition to the above I was curious to hear what you thought about
> using the usually free or cheap rock powders (from silt to fines)
> available from the thousands of quarries around the US. They all have
> different properties, some extremely good for soil and plants.
>
> Also, what do you know about the Idaho Black Rock phosphate
> and the fine sandy rock phosphate from Florida (not the soft phosphate
> - colloidal or rock). I just bought 20 50# bags of each from The
> Fertrell Company, Bainbridge, Pa. (I will post complete contact info
> for these folks soo, they are great to deal with and have good
> products).
>
> As for gypsum - do you recommend lawn and garden gypsum
> available from most garden supply companies?
>
>
>
> Lawrence F. London, Jr.  Venaura Farm
> intergarden.com  InterGarden
> metalab.unc.edu/intergarden InterGarden
> metalab.unc.edu/permaculture PermaSphere
> metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/orgfarm AGINFO
> lflondon AT mindspring.com  london AT metalab.unc.edu
>
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