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How you can strengthen the soil with primary rock flour: tips for use
Rock meal is a natural fertilizer for vegetable beds
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The minerals and trace elements found in lava rock, basalt or diabase are a real boon for the soil: They promote the growth of fruit and vegetables and make your plants more resistant to pests and diseases. How to use the bedrock powder correctly.
To stimulate plant growth, all you need is some rock dust. It is less a classic fertilizer than a natural additive that is usually rich in silica, aluminum oxide, magnesium, iron, manganese, potassium and calcium. Important nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are only found in small amounts in the finely ground rock. Thus, the primary aim of the use is to improve the soil quality and water retention capacity in the home garden – and thus automatically strengthen the plants. The primary rock flour is usually made from nutrient-rich lava rock, basalt or diabase, more rarely from rocks poor in nutrients such as quartz, zeolite and granite. These are more likely to be used to improve soil storage capacity.
This is how bedrock dust affects the soil
Urgsteinsmehl can and should be used in different ways, depending on the type of soil and which (weathered) stones and minerals are already contained in it. For rough orientation:
Is it one sandy Soil is rather poor in nutrients and humus, since the rain washes the nutrients out of the upper layers of the earth. Here the nutrient content can be increased with alkaline primary rock flour. If, on the other hand, you use a bentonite-based flour, the formation of clay-humic complexes be stimulated.
Is the (bog) soil rather sour, the PH value can be raised and thereby neutralized with calcium-containing primary rock powder based on diabase. After that, garden plants feel much better.
Primary rock powder based on basalt (or granite), on the other hand, is said to help alkaline Acidify soils that are particularly calcareous.
alkaline Soils, such as lawns, should be supplied with nutrients by adding primary rock flour from lava or basalt.
Do you want activities in your compost improve, the use of primary rock powder based on diabase or lava rock should make sense.
And another tip: If you are not sure whether the soil is more acidic or basic, for example, you can Measure pH.
Using bedrock dust: tips for use
Other possible uses of Urgstein flour
Sources: my beautiful garden, Utopia
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