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  • From: tanya <tanyagarden@gmail.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] azomite
  • Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 20:50:53 -0700

It makes sense to add minerals to compost (or IM) before adding them
to the soil.

As I noted previously, Phil Nauta in his book Building Soils Naturally
recommends adding rock
dust to the compost pile so that the minerals gets chelated with
organics. He cites a couple sources for amounts: 2-20 pounds per cubic
yard of compost, or 40-50
pounds per cubic yard of compost.

In another part of the book, the (optional) amount he recommends =
50-500 pounds of paramagnetic rock dust (per 1000 sq. ft. of garden
beds), either to the soil or to the compost pile.




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