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Re: Soil Testing -- Yea or Nay?
- To: v*@eskimo.com
- Subject: Re: Soil Testing -- Yea or Nay?
- From: D* C* <a*@iname.com>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 02:32:39 -0800
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BRateaver wrote:
>
> I don't think just supplying compost is the total answer to soil health,
> because compost varies so much by the items of which it is made. Compost made
> from just grass clippings and manure would not be so valuable as that made
> with a much greater variety of items.
>
> Compost's value is the soil organisms in it, One should not expect it to
> supply everything else. I always try to coax people to add the standard
> amendments, the mineral sources: rock phosphate, rock dusts, seaweed, etc.
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