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Rusty Hinge 2 wrote:
The message from "Mike Lyle" [...] Sounds like a waste of money. If your soil is lacking something, you find out what it is, and replace that, not a whole lot of other stuff. But you probably don't need anything you wouldn't get from the usual gardening processes: compost, bonemeal, etc, seaweed if you can get it, and a bit of ordinary fertiliser if you need it. There's no magic in volcanoes: the best thing for improving soil is growing things in it. It isn't a waste of time: in fact, in trials it has proved spectacularly effective in increasing crop yields. It was featured on (IIRC) one of the R4 science programmes. I can't unforget the details, except that I think the initial experiment was carried out in Perthshire. OK, I'll accept that -- unfortunately missed the prog. So how does it work? And has it worked in other places? I can see that from time to time a depleted soil might need trace-mineral replacement; but surely that's a rare case? I'm assuming that the experiments were carried out with the usual controls, in order to avoid what I think of as "the reading-scheme phenomenon" (impressive results achieved with a new teaching method, but turning out to be just because of the extra attention received by both pupils and teachers). -- Mike. |
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