as a note, the phosphate mines in Florida are doing horrible damage
to environments. Not even remotely sustainable to use mined phosphate
- as bad as coal mining, etc. It's a good thing to check into mining
practices of whatever rock minerals you get. Using the waste stream
is the best. I haven't had rock dust from various waste streams
tested around here but something on my list. As you say Lawrence,
there is plenty of science out there about the positive effects of
rock minerals on plants.
There is the soil science and then there are other factors. I always
test products and product combinations in my own garden for many
reasons. The main way I've done it is with seedlings but I'm doing
more with trees and other things now. One major wild card factor is
the spiritual relationship between a person and their plants. And
that sometimes supercedes all the nutrients in the world. I've had
people go into my "volunteer" garden area and kill or stunt things
just by being around them, and others go in and the plant just leaps
upward and outward. That is a fascinating study.
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