Calcium

[89s rule]

Joe, In NJ, we have saltwater rivers that are rich with hard shelled clams. They tend to be slightly less salty than clams from the bays or ocean, but are fresh and fantastic.

Priorities for harvesting are 1) dinners, 2) exercise and beating cabin fever, 3) supplementing fig soil media with calcium and aeration.

If I am not mistaken, the residents of Okracoke Island spread shells all around the base of their trees. There it seems to have worked for more than 100 years.

They do, that’s where I got the idea from.

 

[oat]

I use Gypsum

 

[WVMJack]

We also use gypsum, it doesnt change the soil mix pH. There is regular gypsum you can get at a good farm supply store, and there is one that has additional functions like containing humeric acid that helps hold onto nutrients, called Black Gypsum, and also adds some sulfur. AMLeo sell its, we wait for free shipping days to get a couple bags. A big advantage over oyster shells is it doenst require microbes to make it available to the roots.

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