So I'm making the switch to no till with coot's mix with living mulch and im trying to settle on a blend. Shooting for Albrecht ratios, heres what i got:
10cuft total
3cf premier peat(no added anything, just peat)
3cf grow stones(cant get pumice here)
3cf humus consisting of 2/3 worm gold plus and 1/3 malibu compost
1cf biochar activated with heavy fungal castings(kis) and biorighteous tea
5 cups of 50/50 neem/karanja meal
5 cups crustacean meal
5 cups kelp meal
10 cups glacial rock dust
10 cups basalt
and it gets a little tricky here b/c in the 2.1 cuft of wormgold is 3% each of both Elemite and Kelzyme. All i really can find on the Elemite is that its a sodium-calcium-aluminosilicate, so like bentonite/azomite marketed as better than azomite. the Kelzyme is mined fossilized kelp comes in at less than 70% calcium carbonate and 30% calcium oxide plus micro nutrients. if calculated by weight it comes to roughly 6.75 cups total for each. So i figure it'll take
3.25 cups oyster shell meal
3.25 cups calcium bentonite(or should i use azomite, as i have it on hand?)
mix it and let it sit for a week or two then hopefully send some in for testing to get the right boron/manganese/copper /zinc etc ratios.(i know it'll be tiny amounts)
heres a few questions but any comments would be good!
am i wack for wanting to mix it up and then have it tested? should i be concerned about ph being too high? and when ever i see a base coots mix it has 4 cups a Cu.ft mineral mix in it but the mix is 4 parts glacial, 1 part oyster, 1 part basalt and 1 part bentonite. so thats more than 2 cups glacial rd a cu/ft/ but all the places selling premade mixes are doin equal ratios of each. also see gypsum sometimes used. So whats better? was that a typo that got reposted?
10cuft total
3cf premier peat(no added anything, just peat)
3cf grow stones(cant get pumice here)
3cf humus consisting of 2/3 worm gold plus and 1/3 malibu compost
1cf biochar activated with heavy fungal castings(kis) and biorighteous tea
5 cups of 50/50 neem/karanja meal
5 cups crustacean meal
5 cups kelp meal
10 cups glacial rock dust
10 cups basalt
and it gets a little tricky here b/c in the 2.1 cuft of wormgold is 3% each of both Elemite and Kelzyme. All i really can find on the Elemite is that its a sodium-calcium-aluminosilicate, so like bentonite/azomite marketed as better than azomite. the Kelzyme is mined fossilized kelp comes in at less than 70% calcium carbonate and 30% calcium oxide plus micro nutrients. if calculated by weight it comes to roughly 6.75 cups total for each. So i figure it'll take
3.25 cups oyster shell meal
3.25 cups calcium bentonite(or should i use azomite, as i have it on hand?)
mix it and let it sit for a week or two then hopefully send some in for testing to get the right boron/manganese/copper /zinc etc ratios.(i know it'll be tiny amounts)
heres a few questions but any comments would be good!
am i wack for wanting to mix it up and then have it tested? should i be concerned about ph being too high? and when ever i see a base coots mix it has 4 cups a Cu.ft mineral mix in it but the mix is 4 parts glacial, 1 part oyster, 1 part basalt and 1 part bentonite. so thats more than 2 cups glacial rd a cu/ft/ but all the places selling premade mixes are doin equal ratios of each. also see gypsum sometimes used. So whats better? was that a typo that got reposted?