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Compost and Recycling
Do I need to inoculate my compost pile?
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[QUOTE="Chuck, post: 136731, member: 944"] Egg shells are a supply of calcium but they are extremely slow acting for plants to be able to uptake their calcium. Just because you have ample calcium in your soil doesn't necessarily mean that your plants are able to uptake it. This is the cause of blossom end rot, the plants inability to uptake calcium. In my soil, which has an overabundance of calcium, BER is a huge problem simply because the plants cannot uptake calcium. The absolute remedy in my alkaline soil is to use epsom salts. Somehow epsom salts changes the chemical structure of the calcium and allows plants to uptake it. I don't know why or how this occurs only that it does. I get BER on tomatoes, watermelons, canteloupes and even peppers. It is a major problem every year but if I apply a handful of ES at planting and another at fruit set, BER absolutely disappears. [/QUOTE]
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Do I need to inoculate my compost pile?
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