Build A Soil Mineral Kit - (For Peatmoss) - 80 LB

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Description

A mineral kit for building soil on a sphagnum peat moss base. It balances the pH, adds calcium, helps make other nutrients available and adds trace minerals to your soil. This is the 80 lb size (110 cups), which mixes into 27 cubic feet of soil (1 yard).

What's in it

2 parts Build A Soil basalt - rock dust for trace minerals; highly paramagnetic
1 part gypsum dust - calcium and sulfur; locally mined in Colorado
1 part oyster shell flour - calcium carbonate, mined from San Francisco Bay and high in calcium; adds available calcium and limes the peat moss

How to use

Use at 4 cups per cubic foot of soil, or about 1/2 cup per gallon of soil. One large mineral kit mixes with 1/2 yard of soil, and 1/2 yard is 13.5 cubic feet.

This kit is for making a new batch of soil with Canadian sphagnum peat moss. Peat moss is acidic, and this mineral mix helps balance the pH. Because of peat moss's low pH, the kit includes oyster flour to add lots of calcium and help raise the pH to proper levels.

If you are re-amending soil or working with coconut coir, look at the other mineral mixes instead.

Mixing your own soil

To mix your own soil you need a Nutrient Kit and a Mineral Kit. The matching nutrient side is the Nutrient Kit for sphagnum peat moss base, ClackamasCoots style. The two are kept separate so that the natural moisture in the rock dust doesn't affect the raw nutrients.

Kit sizes

Kit	Volume	Mixes into
18 lb	25 cups	6 cubic feet of soil
27 lb	37 cups	9 cubic feet of soil (1/3 yard)
40 lb	55 cups	14 cubic feet of soil (1/2 yard)
80 lb	110 cups	27 cubic feet of soil (1 yard)

The 40 lb kit comes in a food grade bucket, and the 80 lb kit comes in 2 food grade buckets.

Benefits of remineralization

Provides slow, natural release of elements and trace minerals
Increases the nutrient intake of plants
Increases yields and gives higher brix reading
Rebalances soil pH
Increases earthworm activity and the growth of microorganisms
Builds humus complex
Prevents soil erosion
Increases the storage capacity of the soil
Increases plant resistance to insects, disease, frost and drought
Enhances flavor in crops
Decreases dependence on fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides