chinchillin
Well-Known Member
I'm about to start some raised garden beds that will have around 1000L of soil + vermicompost. Thus I need the commonly suggested 1/3 or 500 L of aeration. Pumice seems to be the easiest go to recommendation but, in my country, with how much I would need, it would cost more than the soil + nutrients. Then I came across Carbomat ECO which is brown coal (lignite) that comes in 4-16mm pieces. The claims are great aeration, drainage, provide complex humic acids and is cheaper.
That sounds like a great replacement for Pumice no? One rep said that it would still provide decent aeration for years and years and that it wouldn't be a problem in a TLOS system. That's what reps always so though no? I've been thinking of buying a BIOchar for the water retention and CeC benefits, but that too is expensive as hell. I've read that brown coal does the same just not as well. Plus, with all the extra calcium being added as nutrients, I'll need to acidify the soil just a wee bit and I can buy the acidic and ph neutral forms. Even with the diminished benefits, buying this carbomat could knock three birds with one stone.
Compromises have to be made in every direction but, Ms. Chinchillin is making sure that money is not the biggest one. So what am I missing here?
That sounds like a great replacement for Pumice no? One rep said that it would still provide decent aeration for years and years and that it wouldn't be a problem in a TLOS system. That's what reps always so though no? I've been thinking of buying a BIOchar for the water retention and CeC benefits, but that too is expensive as hell. I've read that brown coal does the same just not as well. Plus, with all the extra calcium being added as nutrients, I'll need to acidify the soil just a wee bit and I can buy the acidic and ph neutral forms. Even with the diminished benefits, buying this carbomat could knock three birds with one stone.
Compromises have to be made in every direction but, Ms. Chinchillin is making sure that money is not the biggest one. So what am I missing here?