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+ | ===== Remineralization strategy ===== | ||
+ | This project is complex enough to require lots of thought and planning, as well as a long-term strategy. | ||
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+ | ==== Complexity ==== | ||
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+ | The methods related in the 2012 edition of the book have changed somewhat and it's necessary to find the most recent descriptions. A document that describes the latest revisions as of the beginning of 2013 is available at http:// | ||
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+ | However, there is an online service called **OrganiCalc** at http:// | ||
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+ | <note important> | ||
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+ | ==== Worksheets ==== | ||
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+ | OrganiCalc is the only available automated tool that I know of. Reinheimer and Solomon don't provide spreadsheet templates right now. So I created my own template for both the acid soil and excess cations worksheets. | ||
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+ | A significant factor in getting the amendment amounts aligned with the soil is the available choices of amendment materials that may be available locally. Luckily for me, Cory Huskinson, owner of a local company, [[http:// | ||
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+ | The importance of an automated method is that a particular elemental item (such as calcium or sulphur) may occur in different proportions is different mixes (for example, both calcium and sulphur are in gypsum and applying gypsum (or ag sulphur) provides some of the calcium requirement, | ||
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+ | The worksheets that Reinheimer and Solomon provide state some of the proportions differently from what I have found locally, so the importance of adjusting via the spreadsheet. | ||
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+ | ==== Garden sub-plots ==== | ||
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+ | I mix and apply amendments based on the plot to which each is to be applied. Yesterday I mixed four buckets for adding Calcium and Sulphur to the Fall City garden. Then I applied each bucket to a 1,000 square foot area that I marked off. | ||
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+ | The amount for a raised bed are much smaller though the boundaries of a bed are clearly defined. The raised beds require so little amendment that the amounts of elemental mineral is very small - in fact, I wonder how I might uniformly distribute a small amount to a 60 square foot area. I'm thinking that a fine compost sieve, which I just bought, might be an appropriate tool. | ||
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+ | ==== Example ==== | ||
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+ | Here's an example of what I add to each 1,000 square feet in my Fall City garden: | ||
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+ | ^ Mineral | ||
+ | | Oilseed meal | Nitrogen | ||
+ | | Kelp meal | Trace minerals | ||
+ | | Gypsum | Sulphur and calcium | ||
+ | | Agricultural lime | Calcium | ||
+ | | Borax | Boron | 0.46| | ||
+ | | Manganese sulphate | ||
+ | | Copper sulphate | ||
+ | | Zinc sulphate | ||
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+ | This selection doesn' | ||
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+ | The mix is different at my garden by the river because it is based on the soil analysis there. | ||
+ | ==== Rinse and repeat ==== | ||
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+ | At the end of this season (assuming that I see significant results for this application) I'll collect soil samples, send them off for analysis, re-mix elements for the new soil and apply a different mixture. Lots of fun! |
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