[Terrapreta] pE in Muck and Mystery

[Michael Bailes]

Muck and mystery has an interesting post on pE
See http://www.garyjones.org/mt/

I just posted this reply to the article.

> "On the clay pottery you might be on the right track
> This is a comment in a brocure on an Australian "clay" I have been
> researching called zeolite
> "Zeolite carries a negative ionic charge which naturally attracts positive
> charged cations like ammonium, potassium, magnesium and calcium.
>  The open crystalline structure of zeolite has many storage sites for
> these ions which hold naturally through a loose chemical bond. These
> fertiliser ions are available to plants.
>  Zeolite has a very high cation exchange capacity and thus increases the
> mixes ability to hold and release nutrients. As cations are water soluble
> they escape from mixes by leaching.
> Escott Zeolite is also an excellent capillary distributor of water due i.
> . ."
> http://www.zeolite.com.au/
>

-- 
Michael the Archangel

"You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. . . .
Most people don't know that"
FROM
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