Month: August 2016

Peat

In recent decades, the consumption of peat has increased significantly, not only in floriculture for the preparation of garden soil, but also in households. To be able to judge better …

Crude potassium salts

There are no potassium deficiencies in the heavy soils of central Europe. These soils arose from the weathering of feldspars, miki i hornblendy, therefore they contain a lot of this element, which you can share for …

phosphates

Phosphates occur in the soil in a more or less soluble form. If the phosphate content, np. in sandy soil, it is small or they are too tightly connected, np. with excess calcium …

Algae lime

On the French Atlantic coast, in Brittany and Normandy, huge limestone reefs have formed over the course of millennia. They were created from the thallus of the red alga Lithotamnium calcareum, supersaturated with calcium compounds, in the water …

Basalt flour

When did granite flour start to be used in horticulture, gneiss, porfiru, dolomite, marl and plaster, they became interested in their chemical composition. It concerned mainly marl and plaster. Marl is easy …

Clay minerals

The chapter on soil discusses the process of rock weathering until the formation of silicates, oxides and soluble salts. Secondary clay minerals are formed from these basic components, as kaolinite, illit i …

Organic fertilizer mixtures

The fertilizers and substances described above are rarely sold in a uniform and pure form. They are more often sold in the form of mixtures. Their composition was developed on the basis of many years …

Animal origin fertilizers

Among organic fertilizers of animal origin, we distinguish fertilizers obtained from the processing of whole animals and from the processing of animal substances or organs.

The first group is meat meal, which is drawn up …