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I listened to that webinar.
Quite informative.
If i understood right, shes basically saying forget using rock dust, all the minerals are already there. It is all the microbial/fungi/bacteria etc that is needed to make the inorganic minerals available to the plants not more rock dust.
Now heres the question then…
She mentions anywhere where you got clay, rocks, sand etc is going to have all the minerals plants need (iron, magnesium etc)…
That is soil.
Ok…
No dig garden is planting directly into the compost…
Where do the minerals come from then?
Compost isnt sand, rocks, etc that soil is which contains all those minerals.
Needless to say she does say to work the compost into thr soil so that it is mixed with it. No dig garden however is to put the compost straight on top and to plant into the compost… so where do the minerals come from?