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  • From: "Scott Pittman" <scott@permaculture.org>
  • To: "'permaculture'" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] azomite
  • Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 17:20:01 -0600

Great to hear from you Gil, I trust your experience and expertise!

Scott Pittman

"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way.
On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing."
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-----Original Message-----
From: permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:permaculture-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of gil carandang
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 4:24 PM
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [permaculture] azomite


our experience on rock dust show better assimilation is when we
treat/process it with beneficial indigenous microorganisms. it makes the
materials easily bio available.gil carandang

> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:15:46 -0700
> From: lochhoffman@yahoo.com
> To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] azomite
>
> I have been using azomite for the past few years. I can't say I have seen
much results except with beans. While I used to get one good picking and one
weak one; I now typically pick my green beans four or five times. So I just
use the stuff under the beans. It also seems to help with bean beetles
presumably by making the plants stronger.
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Linda <linda_shewan@yahoo.com.au>
> To: 'permaculture' <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Monday, March 11, 2013 12:30 AM
> Subject: Re: [permaculture] Rock Dust
>
> My indirect experience tells me you need to use rock dust for a few years
> before you get clear results.
>
> I will cautiously endorse a product called Rok Solid from New Zealand.
>
> My father is a small scale beef farmer. He was a standard superphosphate
> farmer, but pretty easy on the land - individual thistles hand herbicided
> but the rest of the land left to grow all manner of weeds along with the
> usual rye and clover...
>
> 6 years ago he started using Rok Solid instead as an experiment - he
nearly
> gave up after a couple of years as he felt the growth was poor and he
> worried he was destroying his farm, but he persevered since he is really
> retired and only has a small acreage now. After about 4 years he became
> satisfied that it really was working and is now, at 6 years, very happy
with
> the results. The agent selling it has told him that the experience of
others
> is showing that year 7 is the big one, where there is a huge increase in
> productivity. We shall see. But regardless of that it is performing very
> well and he thinks better than the super - in that his land (peat on clay
-
> wildly varying depth of peat 0 - 20 feet at least) is producing well and
> staying greener longer without rain.
>
> It wasn't clear to me from the website what the product actually was but
> they emailed me today saying "The product is actually rockdust - ground
> basalt rock which has over 63 minerals and into that we have a 5% blend of
> our fish and kelp which is teeming with microbial life. Together you have
> full spectrum mineralised Rok Solid with biology that ensures the plant
> availability of the minerals." My father also mentioned he read an article
> that stated they only use basalt with the correct magnetic quality.
>
> So people considering rock dust may need to give the soil some time to
> really come into production after application. I'm sure the addition of
fish
> and kelp is an enormous aid as well. They have a number of other products
> incl for horticulture etc but I haven't looked into them so can't comment.

>
> Cheers, Linda
>
>
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