Tony: Rambler writes: <<to which i add worm pee>>
How _do_ you get those worms to pee in a cup for you? W Aurora Farm is the only unsubsidized, family-run seed farm in North America offering garden seeds grown using Rudolf Steiner's methods of spiritual agriculture. http://www.kootenay.com/~aurora -----Original Message----- From: Rambler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Friday, March 01, 2002 3:28 PM Subject: Re: "Sharp" Sand for potting mix >Allan Balliett wrote: >> >> I'm going a little nutty right now, trying to learn a jargon so I can >> speak with people who are quite a drive from me and who really don't >> have the time to spoon feed the ignorant. >> >> I'm looking to buy a few yards of 'crushed gravel sand' to use in a >> potting mix formulation recommended by Heinz Grotzke in "Biodynamic >> Greenhouse Management." >> >> So far, I've been offered trap dust and 1/4inch (and lower) stuff >> from a realatively close-by quarry. If I can communicate screen size, >> I think I can buy what I need. >> >> AND, I would assume that it's cool to take basalt instead of granite, eh? >> >> Which is to say that I've found a source for basalt trap dust down >> here. My recollection is that it tests very highly on the Callahan >> scale (paramagnetics), but I'll have to have it tested again. >> >> Thanks >> >> _Allan > >Hi Allan I use a basalt rock dust in my potting mixes . i also add about >10% fine clay dust from my own subsoil. This brings in a bit more >phosphate and the clay infuence to a potting mix . For sand i use about >10% any more then that and your seedling trays become too heavy to lift >and carry. >The best seed sowing/potting mix is made with leaf mould. Each year I >make up a ix to be used the following year.To a collection of 60% >softwood and 30% hard wood leaves mixed with seed free grass or a green >crop. I add 10% fine sand 10% fine clay 10% chicken manure, 10% cow >manure, alight sprinkling of lime.Prep500,502-508. Each time i turn the >pile i add armfulls of comphrey and nettle, 20 litre bucket of worm >castings from the worm farm to kick start the process and sprinkle a >handful of Barrel Compost over the pile. I keep the heap covered with >weedmat that allows rain through but keeps out the birds and prevents >weed seed contamination. It also keeps the temperture more even and >bring the worms evenly through the whole heap. this make a very good >friable mix ready to use with out any screening except to cover the >seeds.I also use this as apotting mix by adding some fish and seaweed >meal about a month before use.All seedlings are then sprayed twice month >with a foliar tea. At planting time all plants are dipped into Rooting >Compound from Garuda Biodynamics to which i add worm pee. > >Cheers Tony Robinson >Rambler Flowers >NewZealand > >Cheers Tony >
