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Azomite

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:39 pm
by GoDogGo!
http://www.azomite.com/story.html

I got a 50# bag of Azomite from a farm in VA for about $25 ppd. I worked it into my various garden plots this year. I figured it wouldn't hurt.

OH SHIT. Some plants look perfectly normal. Others, esp the tomatoes, have gone berserk. I have a cherry tomato plant about 7' tall and heading upwards. It'd be even taller but I don't have anything else to tie it to. There are so many tomatoes on it the branches are breaking out past where I can tie them. I have a roma tomato on another plant the size of my hand.

I assume it's the Azomite. I didn't do anything else differently. If you garden, give it a shot. I have about half of my bag left for next year. don't let it get wet or it turns into dense clay-like goo.

Re: Azomite

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:30 am
by Shafpocalypse Now
JRMeatplow eats it cuz it's full of minerals.

Re: Azomite

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:01 am
by Shaun B. O'Murnecan
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Re: Azomite

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 8:44 pm
by Turdacious
What else has been growing more than normal?

Re: Azomite

Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:17 pm
by GoDogGo!
The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:What else has been growing more than normal?
The corn (Golden Bantam) is about 8', but I've never grown that before so I don't know if that's odd or not. That won't be ripe for a couple of weeks or so.
Beans are Lazy Housewife and Trail of Tears, they're pumping out a side-dish worth of pods every day. Maybe a little up from usual.

Opium poppy, coca, Sensamilla and ayahuasca are about as productive as usual.

It's really the tomatoes that have gone nuts.

Re: Azomite

Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2009 12:17 am
by Trebuchet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta
This is giving me very very good results. Of course , I have access to abundant charcoal but if you can source some , pulverise it and steep it with some natural fertiliser (bought or made) your soil will teem with goodness. The charcoal provides the soil bugs with somewhere to thrive , it doesn't break down and gives the soil a good loose structure.
They say Amazonian farmers could remain in situ if they slashed and charred instead of slashed and burned.
Food for thought.