[compost_tea] Re: Salts

From: <soilfoodweb_at_aol.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 11:32:22 -0500

Floculation of clays by adding calcium will soften soil, but it won't last, unless you get the biology back into the soil ASAP, so the fungi can hold the calcium.

Why is it that your Kinsey soil report, or the IAL, or an A&L, or Plant and Soil report will come back each year, forever, and say between 3 and 8 TONS of lime is needed?

When do you ever stop having to add lime, lime and more lime?

Answer: When you get the biology back into the soil. It is the organisms, using the organic matter to grow and do their jobs, that hold calcium, N, iron, B, PO4, etc in the soil. Lose the biology, and your soil compacts. No structure.

It is the right set of organisms that is required to keep the nutrients in soil, and the reason you have lost the nutrients is that you no longer have the appropriate set of organisms present to keep those nutrients in the soil.

The good guys don't hang around where you are adding things that will kill them. Guess what 3 tons of lime does to your biology?

Elaine Ingham
President, Soil Foodweb Inc.
SFI Corvallis, OR
SFI Port Jefferson, NY
SFI Lismore, NSW, Australia
SFI Hilversum, The Netherlands
SFI Cambridge, New Zealand
www.soilfoodweb.com

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