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    Re: Best fertilizer is crushed stone, not manure

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    I'm afraid I don't use the preparations, mostly because some of the ingredients are hard to come by.

    Arrowind, compost tea is really easy. Find a big empty barrel, fill with comfrey...
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    Re: Best fertilizer is crushed stone, not manure

    I'm afraid I don't use the preparations, mostly because some of the ingredients are hard to come by.

    Arrowind, compost tea is really easy. Find a big empty barrel, fill with comfrey and nettles...
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    Re: Best fertilizer is crushed stone, not manure

    The plants needed for the biodynamic preparations are nettle, comfrey, valerian, dandilion, yarrow and oak. I use lunar plantings but things like stags hearts are hard to come by.

    The...
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    Re: Best fertilizer is crushed stone, not manure

    I use stable sweepings rotted down, wood ash and biochar, bonemeal, Scottish rock dust, mycorrhyzal fungi and nettle and comfrey tea. I also use green manures sometimes. That's in the veg beds...
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    Re: Best fertilizer is crushed stone, not manure

    Not quite, rock dust is a good source of micronutrients but it works in a subtle way. What happens is that it encourages the development of mycorhizal networks that feed the plants the micronutrients...
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