MajorHubbub

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Hey growmies. I’m not a great grower and definitely not a soil scientist, but I’ve got a connection to a project that’s been using a natural mineral amendment in farming. It's literally just a rock they crush to a powder and spread 25kg per acre. It was discovered near an old quarry, cows were licking all the tailings so they tested it and it has lots of micronutrients and active clay minerals? that, this is how it was explained to me,apparently have a negative charge so hold on to positive fertiliser ions? and give the plants what they need when they need it instead of having to produce sugars to attract the right sort of bacteria.

They've done loads of agriculture trials, like wheat, ri

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