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Re: How to Make Topsoil: Azomite part 1
- To: v*@eskimo.com
- Subject: Re: How to Make Topsoil: Azomite part 1
- From: D* C* <a*@iname.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 00:42:11 -0800
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BRateaver wrote:
>
> In response to the Azomite tale: I have used it for years, even before I used
> the bags with that label, because the vein in the earth which produces it runs
> farther and another person bagged it there and sold it to me. That pinkish
> gray stuff is just one more of the fossil clays.
> I have had some brought to me that was yellow, really yellow color, and I
> know there are some colored brown, some almost black. All of it remains from
> the Flood, so apparently certain organisms collected in particular regions,
> maybe caught in canyons and pile up there.....??
>
> But the pinkish gray kind is what I like best. Fossil clay most certainly does
> have a really good effect. I used it once where I mixed soil for planting
> raspberries. I had to pull up some plants, and I noticed with surprise that,
> although all the crumbly dark soil fell off the roots, the pinkish gray stuff
> still clung to the brushy roots. I suppose that indicates that its finely
> divided state enabled it to better adhere to the mucigel around the root
> hairs.
> Incidentally, the raspberry plants had been sent me,free, by a seed catalog
> producer, Heritage I think they were. I sent him a color photo of myself on a
> ladder to reach the fruit on the vines I had tied up to a tall support. He got
> a kick out of that.
>
> So I hope you all get smart and utilize this pinkish gray fossil clay. It is
> obtained from what is practically a mountain of it, and the very old man who
> owned it--in his 90's when I heard of him last, had quite a hard time getting
> the right person to do the marketing. Finally he got someone good, and it is
> now easy to get it , sacked, by the ton. If you want just a few bags for a
> garden, not acreage, you can get that from Peaceful Valley Farm Supply.
>
> The man from whom I got it originally told me the minerals in it were of the
> same proportions of the minerals in human blood., and that this was why it was
> the best of the fossil clays.
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