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  • From: Carl DuPoldt <cdupoldt@yahoo.com>
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  • Subject: [permaculture] Earthworms and Soil Fertility - FYI
  • Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 14:21:40 -0700 (PDT)



Earth worms and soil fertility    

http://www.vermicomposting-worms.com/vermicomposting/earthworms-and-their-role-in-soil-fertility-enhancement
    
http://www.ehow.com/about_6596680_do-earthworms-improve-soil-fertility/.html  
 




>From robyn@permaculture.com.au Wed Apr 6 18:00:07 2011
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Here we don't encourage the use of peat in any form as much of it is
extracted from fragile ecosystems and is a non-renewable resource. The
horticulture and nursery industries have decimated ancient boglands, moors
and other sensitive environments around the world.

We use coir or coco-peat as a substitute in our potting mixes, which is made
from the fibres of coconut husks, a renewable resource processed from a wast
product of harvesting coconuts for food.

Roby


On 7/04/11 1:08 AM, "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflj@bellsouth.net> wrote:

>
> From ATTRA:
>
> The following four recipes are credited to Eliot Coleman. The first
> was published in the Winter 1994 issue of NOFA-NJ Organic News, in an
> article by Emily Brown-Rosen. The remaining three are adapted from
> Coleman's book The New Organic Grower (see Appendix 2).
>
> Organic potting mix
>
> 1 part sphagnum peat
> 1 part peat humus (short fiber)
> 1 part compost
> 1 part sharp sand (builder's)
>
> To every 80 quarts of this add:
>
> 1 cup greensand
> 1 cup colloidal phosphate
> 1 1/2 to 2 cups crab meal, or blood meal
> 1/2 cup lime
>
> Blocking mix recipe
>
> 3 buckets (standard 10-quart bucket) brown peat
> 1/2 cup lime (mix well)
> 2 buckets coarse sand or perlite
> 3 cups base fertilizer (blood meal, colloidal phosphate, and
> greensand mixed together in equal parts)
> 1 bucket soil
> 2 buckets compost
>
> Mix all ingredients together thoroughly. Coleman does not sterilize
> potting soils; he believes that damp-off and similar seedling problems
> are the result of overwatering, lack of air movement, not enough sun,
> over-fertilization, and other cultural mistakes.
>
> Blocking mix recipe for larger quantities
>
> 30 units brown peat
> 1/8 unit lime
> 20 units coarse sand or perlite
> 3/4 unit base fertilizer (blood meal, colloidal phosphate, and
> greensand mixed together in equal parts)
> 10 units soil
> 20 units compost
>
> Mini-block recipe
>
> 16 parts brown peat
> 1/4 part colloidal phosphate
> 1/4 part greensand
> 4 parts compost (well decomposed)
>
> Note: If greensand is unavailable, leave it out. Do not substitute a
> dried seaweed product in this mix.
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