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Re: Asparagus, Blueberries, Clay & Dirty Socks

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Thank you, but I confess I'm extremely irritated at the fact that you've
successfully created a return address that can't be reached unless one
chooses to run the possibilities of which of the 0s are ohs and which are
zeroes. I tried to send you a note the day you said you home-schooled your
child, pointing out that your post was rife with misspellings. This one is
too. It's gypsum, not gypson, for starters. Margaret L

At 05:04 PM 1/20/2000 PST, you wrote:
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>>>I won't be adding any sand to my clay now!  I'm going to save all the
>>responses and put them in a Word doc. for future reference.
>>----------------------------------------------------------------
>>*There's More:
>>
>>Go to
>>http://www.egroups.com/group/mycology/169.html?
>>
>>and reads gypsom.
>>This is good for clay.
>>It softens soil, enhances nutrient uptake,
>>w/o adjusting nutrient OR pH.
>>Also called Calcium Sulfate (Not Carbonate.)
>>
>This is an url for a mycology site, not gypsum or soil amending. Do you
>have the correct URL? Thank you, Margaret L
>================================================================
>Yes M, (And to which Salvation Army do you donate?  :>)
>
>I am (hopefully) well impressed you can read a URL
>and did not discover this solely by clicking, but also said, go to gypsum. 
>You miss a lot of compost info... but to cut to the chase...
>
>Subject: Compost Manure PHASE I Suppliments Material Equip
> From: Bill
>
>MINERALS
>
>GYPSUM-Calsium Sulfate
>
>ESSENTIAL FOR MOST COMPOSTS;
>1-Structure-aggragation of particals, opening it to air.
>2-Increase water holding without as much over-wetting danger.
>3-Prevents greasy conditon by counteracting K,Mg,P, and Na, if it
>occurs.
>4-Supplies calcium for mushroom metabolism.
>
>================
>
>So reading between the lines..
>See 1,2,3 but skip 4.
>This is good for the conditions clay causes.
>She has clay.  It pronmotes areation, drainage,
>while holding moisture.  Helps prevent over AND underwatering.
>
>Other info tells me it's a buffer, not a fertilizer,
>but assists in it's uptake.
>
>And I think if you go back, Ammonium Sulfate is mentioned.
>A pH low fert for blueberries.
>I glean tidbits, and add 2+2+2, because each book has tidbits.
>They all skip massive basics, because that doesn't sell.
>I have clay.  Not like OK clay, but I've lived in it.
>Clay is rarely short of nutrients.  It's heavy tho,
>and has the aeration hassle, plus would get soggy as heck.
>
>She needs pH lowered. Peat
>Air. Peat. Vermiculite. Perlite better perhaps for her.
>Gypsum will help the blueberries, and everything else,
>lawn too.
>Soil amenders, like compost, are rarely appropriate for
>blueberries due to pH. But perfect with most plants.
>
>For her clay, 50% would be reasonable. And maybe not enuf'!
>On a 4x4 square, done as 1x1s, dug 1 ft deep,
>means a 1/2 cu ft, per sq ft is 50% if she digs 6" deep
>and adds 1/2 cu ft per sq ft, so has a 1' deep mix.
>
>If she digs 1' deep, then tosses 1/2 cu ft on ea sq ft
>and mixes the top 1' of the (now) 1 1/2 ft, it's better
>for drainage and approaches the french "double-dig"
>intensive method, which sq ft borrows from.
>
>
>If she digs 1' deep, then tosses 1/2 cu ft on ea sq ft
>and mixes the all of the (now) 1 1/2 ft, it's only a 33% mix.
>Great for most all folks and some can use 25% and be GREAT,
>but her clay makes 33% dubiuous.
>
>I mean to say, she must try 33% and 50% and see what
>she can get away with, and it depends if she adds other
>amendments like gypsum and perlite for herb regular veggies,
>due to clay.  The peat is good too, and the pH is easy
>to fix, but it costs, so peat goes primarily to her
>blueberries, compost to herbasparagus, with maybe some
>peat, mabey some perlite , vermiculie, and gypsum, because
>the asparagus need rich AND LIGHT soil, she has clay.
>
>Asparagus gets 5-10-10 also.  Most veggies will
>like that.  Bluberries, Ammonium Sulfate, but
>THAT"S later for the bluberries.  No fert for them
>the first period of growing... (I read this.
>Haven't heard why, exactly, yet.  I feel the peat
>supplies it.  So if you quote me, keep it in context.)
>Bill
>(There's a bit about urine in the compost you might
>be interested in also.  :>)
>
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