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re: Tips for my raised garden
Posted on 3/3/20 at 6:54 am to ChenierauTigre
Posted on 3/3/20 at 6:54 am to ChenierauTigre
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Doesn't gypsum help to loosen hard packed clay soils
Yes, but expanded shale is looking like it will outperform gypsum by a good margin. There are several studies going on in Texas using expanded shale instead of gypsum. It is readily available at many nursery and garden centers these days as well.
I was considering on using it for my new hydroponic system so I researched it a lot. It seems like it can help our crappy clay soils in the BR area.
Posted on 3/3/20 at 7:56 am to convertedtiger
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I was considering on using it for my new hydroponic system so I researched it a lot. It seems like it can help our crappy clay soils in the BR area.
I use stalite, which is an expanded slate aggregate instead of shale. Beats perlite or hydroton in my coco coir mix. I'd imagine the 2 are extremely similar products, it just happened that one was easier to source by the cubic yard in my area though.
Not related to expanded aggregate, you can almost never have too much earthworm castings. I source directly from a worm farmer, so it comes with earthworm eggs in it... which is awesome. Can't really do heavy loads inorganic salt based fertilizers with the live worms though.
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