Greensand - An Organic Soil Amendment For a Better Tasting Tomato
by John Yazo
Greensand is a naturally occurring iron-potassium silicate, also know as glauconite. It is what your tomatoes need to get that extra boost, it is full of the vitamins and minerals that tomato plants need to produce a thriving crop with an intensely flavored fruit. It is also an excellent choice of fertilize to use for your roses to prolong their blooms next year. Roses along with other flowers thrive on Greensand, it is a supply of marine potash, silica, iron oxide, magnesia, lime, phosphoric acid and other trace minerals, about 30 other trace minerals.
Greensand will improve the health of your plants, it is a great choice of a soil amendment to loosen heavy type clay soils and it is 100 percent organic, along with being environment friendly. It is a natural mineral that can not only be used to opens up tight soil like clay, it will bind loose sandy soils and retain one third if it's weight with water.
Greensand is a sand type sediment, granules of dark greenish glauconite, that is usually mixed with clay or sand. A few places that it is mined in the United States are in Arkansas, New Jersey and Texas.
The main component of Greensand is potash and a hydrated silicate of iron. It releases it's nutrients through a exchange action in the soil so it can easily be taken up by plants. The recommended application for Greensand is 2-4 pounds to every 100 square feet. It is non-soluble in water but will not burn plants. Safe to handle, odorless and can be applied anytime of the year.
Greensand can be purchesed at some local garden centers or online at Gardeners Supply
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