permaculture

["Andrew Clements" <jara@otenet.gr>]

Dear Mitra,

  Agree completely - and from what I read so do the SEER people - From what
I can gather they are conducting extensive rockdust and control trials - I
am also doing trials now at my farm with controls. Reading stuff on the
internet this idea is not new by a long shot - there are longitudinal tests
that go back to 1900 on this in forests in Austria.

Yours,

Andrew.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Mitra <mitra@mitra.biz>
To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: Andrew Clements <jara@otenet.gr>
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: [permaculture] Rockdust Revisited


> I'm seeing a lot of pretty unscientific reports on this rock dust, 
> for example Andrew's and the one about the Scottish site where it was 
> rock-dust + lots of compost.
> 
> What would be nice would be if the next person to try this for 
> example through the rock on half-the greenroof, and half the garden - 
> that would give us something observable that couldn't be confused 
> with the onset of spring.
> 
> Any takers ...
> 
> - Mitra