Mark, We use Rock dust and gypsum here in our sheet mulching and add to the
forest garden from time to time. I still don't see how you can keep all
that ammonia from escaping from the pile with an applaction of rock powder.
I have used 6 inches of straw on top of the pile as a scrubber. the
straw helps to absorb the amonia. The carbon soaks up the ammonia.
We make lost of comfery tea, plus rabbit and chicken manure tea by the 30
gal trash barrol . Our mulching system supplies our compost and worm casting
tea in place. As the rain or watter form our drip or the pond moves down
through the mulch, it desolves the half inch of worm castings . This tea
drains down the into the soil through the worm holes. It's all part of
natures design. Got you in the forest to see a carbon copy of this in
action. jerome
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Jerome Osentowski, Director
Central Rocky Mountain Permaculture Institute
PO Box 631
Basalt, CO 81621 U.S.A.
Tel/fax (970) 927-4158 E mail: jerome@crmpi.org
For more information, please visit our web site at <<www.crmpi.org>>
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From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [permaculture] SoilFoodWeb
Date: Mon, Oct 7, 2002, 9:28 AM
At 08:41 PM 10/5/02 -0600, you wrote:_______________________________________________
Much of the fertility and many of the bugs and microbs are killed duringN loss can be minimized by adding rock P or gypsum, this binds the ammonia
the compost process.
and makes the P available.
Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM
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