James, et. al., There's nothing like silica for making lime available. Read pages 30 through 33 of Steiner's AGRICULTURE (Lecture Two). Many, many low pH soils have limestone beneath them. The previous post (below) seems an inspired method for bringing up the lime. Horn clay should also be able to play a role in this. It might be a big help, particularly in sandy soils.
I Florida where most of the soils lack clay there commonly is 60 or more feet (20 meters or so) of sand at the surface and beneath that are limestone and phosphate deposits. This is the result of lime and phosphate filtering down through the sand over the eons in this high rainfall climate. This happens particularly in winter when minerals have the greatest tendency to crystalize and precipitate. In Steiner's words, ". . . if we are dealing with a soil that does not carry these influences upward during the winter as it should, it is good to furnish the soil with some clay, the dosage of which I will indicate later." As many of us know, Steiner did not later indicate this dosage, nor any more than barely hint at how it might be prepared or administered. There is a brief mention in Lecture Four, page 74 of using orthoclase or feldspar, which are parent materials for clay, to make the horn silica remedy, and (I haven't found it now, it may have been in one of the discussions) he also mentioned capping off the open end of the horn with clay. Presumably had Steiner lived longer this would have come out. Now, however, we are faced with progressive farmers experimenting with horn clay while stricter Steiner preservationists cry, "Steiner didn't say that." and "That's not BD!" Personally I don't care what we call it as long as we elucidate the scientific principles Steiner tried to open our eyes to. On one very well run Australian farm in New South Wales the farmer was showing me a stratum of sandy limestone an inch or two thick that was exposed in a gully and was a meter or a little less below the surface of the field. "That didn't used to be there when I was a kid." he said. Well, you may imagine NSW, with its occasional heavy rains, could leach the lime out of the topsoil and carry it down that far before it hardened into stone. If this happened repeatedly just such a layer might form, and do so within one person's lifetime. If this can happen, who is to say it cannot be reversed, given the right application of dynamic patterns of force? It is not unheard of for soils to lose a point in pH in a year through leaching. So why not gain a point in a year from the opposite application of forces? Also keep in mind what Robin was saying about not withholding expertise for personal gain. As some know and others are realizing, we can apply dynamic patterns over large acreages with radionic instruments and field broadcasters, to say nothing of Glen Atkinson's method of using low potency homeopathic combos in high volume spraying. Such progressive methods are relatively cheap and easy and the more we do them and succeed the more we learn about how best to do. If all applications of Steiner's remedies are limited to stirring and spraying we will have quite a struggle trying to stay afloat on tiny islands of healthy agriculture in a civilization that is going down the tubes all around us. Best, Hugh Lovel Hugh >Dear Daniel, >Some time ago I wrote of how one of our members had increased the pH of his >soil by using quartz crystals in his flow forms used for stirring the preps. >He was able to increase pH from 5.5 to 6.5 in one year. >The secret apparently was that the preps were stirred [running through the >quartz] intermittently for a month before spraying out. this is one way. >Regards >James >Radiasesthesia and Radionic Analysis >Radionic Insect and Parasite control >Bioethical Agriculture Consultant > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Daniel Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 12:00 AM >Subject: Re: Lime and Humus > > >> Are there other ways to make acidic soil more neutral? Is that something >> even to worr about? >> >> Daniel >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 1:50 AM >> Subject: Re: Lime and Humus >> >> >> > >> > In a message dated 8/6/02 2:36:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> > >> > << How does lime do this? Why would destroying the humus-building >complex >> be >> > a >> > >> > problem in forest soils but not agricultural soils? Any ideas? >> > >> > >> >> > >> > You must be judicious with lime. Lime applied to corpses causes more >> rapid >> > decomposition. Likewise it causes quick release of organic matter >stored >> in >> > the humus structure of the soil. "SStorchLime makes the father rich and >> the >> > son poor". That is an old saying that rings true... >> > >> > >> >> Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
