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Love Lightning · 12-10-2017, 09:36 AM

what do you think about collecting clay and making dry clay balls/pellets for adding to swamp tubes?
to provide the plants with minerals that are not found in great amounts in local forest top soil (black/acidi/high organic content).

DuskrayTroubador · 12-14-2017, 10:55 PM

Clay is good for water retention, but in order for the nutrients in clay (there are loads) to be accessible, the clay has to be broken up. Gypsum will do the trick (as can your back and a mattock or tiller).

Limeygreen · 12-15-2017, 12:39 PM

You may look into calcium bentonite, it has some silica in it, available at most pottery supply stores, easy to mix in with your soil.

12-10-2017, 09:36 AM	#1
Love Lightning Newbie Join Date: Nov 2017 Posts: 6	DIY clayballs for added silica what do you think about collecting clay and making dry clay balls/pellets for adding to swamp tubes? to provide the plants with minerals that are not found in great amounts in local forest top soil (black/acidi/high organic content).
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DuskrayTroubador Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 1,046	Clay is good for water retention, but in order for the nutrients in clay (there are loads) to be accessible, the clay has to be broken up. Gypsum will do the trick (as can your back and a mattock or tiller). __________________ If hereafter any highly cultured, poetical nation shall lure back to their birthright, the merry May-day gods of old; and livingly enthrone them again in the now egotistical sky; on the now un- haunted hill; then be sure, exalted to Jove’s high seat, the great Sperm Whale shall lord it. — HERMAN MELVILLE, from Moby Dick
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12-15-2017, 12:39 PM	#3
Limeygreen Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,750	You may look into calcium bentonite, it has some silica in it, available at most pottery supply stores, easy to mix in with your soil. __________________ Your best you try, to harm I and I, Aiming to kill. But I love you still Cause you are here to make prophecy fulfill.
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