Amendments–Unusual

[steve37341]

My grandfather was a farmer most of his life and was always interested in trying new things in the fields and especially in the garden. I guess this love of the unusual rubbed off on me as I love to find new ways of doing things though not just for the sake of something new. I want the new things to work. I read an article in Acres USA magazine to which I subscribe about a retired agricultural scientist, Calvin Bey, in Arkansas, USA, who tried using what is known as paramagnetic rock in his soil to improve his yields of sweet corn. I have not yet purchased the paramagnetic rock for my own garden, but I plan to do so this season. You will have to read Mr. Bey’s article on his blog to get an understanding of how it works but he achieved astounding results with his corn in the growth cycle. His blog is here:

http://harmonygardens.blogspot.com/2008/12/acresusa-article-submitted.html

I have heard of using rock dust and I do use rock dust in my own garden but the paramagnetic rock was a totally new concept.

Steve

[charles]

 Thanks for the link Steve. It led me to a clearer explanantion of what is meant by paramagnetism – a receiving and making available of energies from both outside and within earth – and it appears that rockdust is as valuable for this as for any minerals it releases.

Copper tools are also ‘paramagnetic’ and presumably collecting and improving energies in the soil. It can all sound a bit vague until you read the results obtained by Calvin Bey.

As for worms in your other post, I would prefer to spend money on good organic matter which must attract and nourish earthworms and result in them breeding.

[steve37341]

I agree that attracting worms is a much better choice than just adding them into the soil. But in my area of the country, and generally many areas of the southeast US, we have soil that has a very high clay (and rocks) content and thus is generally devoid of earthworms. The only way it seems to get them started is to add them to the soil in addition to composts and manures. Also, on farms where large scale use of agricultural pesticides and chemical fertilizers have been used, the worms have been killed out. Mr. Kreitzer is trying to offer the farmers and others an alternative to these fertilizers in particular.

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