glacial silt ?

[Bozo]

Would glacial silt be a soil additive you would use if you had a glacier up the street? I"m sure it cant be bad used in small ammounts .Lota round granite bolders and grey shist with quartz fish spawn in lake die and decompose all over lake .Sound like youd want a bag of or you wouldnt put that crap in yer soil on a bet?
Just courious what you orgnic folks think as my growwing is headed that dirrection and this silt /sand is avaliable .

 

[Guest]

Bozo,

I would think you need to send a sample of this stuff to your state college and have it analyzed....JMO....Or you could try it in a potting mix on "one" plant and compare the difference....I would say it sounds like some good stuff by your description, but have it analyzed just the same....Also, contact a local agricultural agent and see what they have to say about it....LC

 

[Bozo]

Both good ideas thanks .the local vegatation loves the stuff I might just try a bit in 1 pot and see.I like trying stuff that doesnt cost money .Years back i did some research about sea water being diluted and used as a fert I did a small test and it was a disaster I have since learned to do experiments on single plants

 

[Suby]

Everything that lives and grows in the ocean once composted is good for plants EXCEP salt, salt from sea water is really bad for organic grows.
That would be my only concern really, like LC mentioned do a test before wasting time and $ on a whim.
The mineral content will be good though, I've heard of alot of organic growers would incorporate mineral and ground rock dusts into their soil, there are very slow release so a cyclical reuse of soil will benefit but little else.

S

 

[Guest]

I like trying stuff that doesnt cost money

same here.

Although, I've caught the message pretty clear from the "master gardeners" (hehe) who hang on this site that outdoor practices should stay outdoors, and indoors should be kept quite clean with not too much F'N around with weird experiments and strange fert experiments.

Makes sense too, keep it clean, simple, and successful, I keep it cheap by making tea from organic amendments, seems to me you can make gallons and gallons of organic fert for pennies, one small bag of guano will keep me in tea for a long time, makes me wonder why anyone would go and buy a liquid bottle of bloom fert that only lasts like one cycle (depending on the size of grow of course) it seems just downright dumb. (suckers!)

Organic growing is already so cheap comparatively that using sketchy things in the soil seems like a bad idea. Keep it simple=success!

When I started I went and picked up:

Dolomite lime
high P guano
Kelp meal
bone meal
blood meal
Earth worm castings

cost me under a hundred bucks for all of these things, made my soil mix, and still have loads of this stuff sitting on my shelf, I use it to make tea.

I remember reading a thread recently about someone who was using hair and ash for ferts............how did that turn out anyway?.anyone know?