Gypsum

[Pakanohida]

Bear in mind that it's a non-renewable resource.

Agreed when the same results can be done via proper planting, or working with the soil & plant life to make some area less or more base or acid. This would be a good example of why I strongly dislike the supposed "transitive ethic."

Just because people make unsustainable homes, and materials for them doesn't mean I have to support it or the resources involved with collecting said materials.

[gardenlen]

no in our movements around our general area of s.e/qld, we find all clays respond, but should it really matter the clay here dissolves in water, we never use peat, not even sphagnum, the only peat comes in regular potting mixes we use for convenience, don't use any fertilisers or manures either gypsum fill our gap, all our composting and vermiculture occures in the gardens, and prunings are all drop mulched. though no more sustainable than straw baling we use sugar cane mulch and spent mushroom compost, and in preference to burning (oodles of this in rural) we are opting to chop up felled trees for posts and hugelkultur in gardens. so much for the co2 fans hey?

len

[purplepear]

you don't have a comment of your own purplepear??

plagiarism just like piggy back theorists.

we are more that content we build better and are aware of aspects and orientation.

you missed the message, going for my character.

pity

len

Ah Len - it was indeed your content and not your character that I was "commenting on"
I am sure you are by now aware that it is environmental vandalism to drag Gypsum from some other place and transport it over goodness knows what distance, using heaven knows how much precious fossil fuel while destroying the habitat of bats and other animals at the location from which it is harvested.
Organic mater will do the job of floculating the clay content in your soil and though it be slow, we in permaculture use slow solutions as a part of sustainability.
I say in conclusion the we must "be content with what we have" and not import our success the way we might " find senenity and tranquility" even thoug there are thing in the world that we may not understand.

[gardenlen]

so the few gardeners who use gypsum carry the can for all those houses built with gyproc walls?? and farmed wood that grows where once habitat forests grew, all holier than thou stuff hey?? anyhow your debate seems to be going nowhere? as you don't mention those fossil fuels used to create renewable energy components. oh and just to update: with this economic mining boom up here prefab transportable homes (getting to be very wide loads on the highway now) all amde from at least farmed timber transported to brisbane, rockhampton and up around cairns where they build these things then transport them to central qld coal basin. we pass at least 6 every time we do 1/2 hour trip to gympie. so teh whole picture tells teh story, me i've only mentioned part of it.

and just for interest when a property owner up here is ready to build they have an acre or so or radiata pines in plantation rows which simply get pushed over and burned, millers would rather rape tassy forests for trees to chip, that's 200 year old trees these pines about 40 years old.

we have lived here 6 months now and on average there would be one fire burning a day.

len

[andrew curr]

i often pick up bits at the tip
gypsum is a good source of sulphur
what plants are bioaccumulators of S ?,onions

[Michaelangelica]

i often pick up bits at the tip
gypsum is a good source of sulphur
what plants are bioaccumulators of S ?,onions

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rc...nHeB1P6olJZ4aw
Some species of lichens are particularly good bio-accumulators for sulphur and trace metals in the air. WBEA has been using lichens as bio-accumulators of air

[Pakanohida]

http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rc...nHeB1P6olJZ4aw
Some species of lichens are particularly good bio-accumulators for sulphur and trace metals in the air. WBEA has been using lichens as bio-accumulators of air

They grow on my plum, and apple trees naturally as well as pretty much everything else here. Some of the species are good bandages in case of cuts and lacerations, & edible.

[hondo]

I add both organic material and gypsum to the heavy clay soil in my garden. The combination of the two has seriously changed the composition of my garden soil and highly improved my yields and quality of my produce.

[hondo]

I add both organic material and gypsum to the heavy clay soil in my garden. The combination of the two has seriously changed the composition of my garden soil and highly improved my yields and quality of my produce.

Any idea!

[gardenlen]

you answered your own post hondo,

what is it you need to know?

len

http://www.lensgarden.com.au/straw_bale_garden.htm