Grow big apples with chicken manure and volcanic rock dust!
Guess which apples grew with chicken poop and volcanic rock dust!
Here are some apples from a tree in our garden. The two bigger apples in the picture weigh in at 11.75oz and 13oz! The ’small’ one for comparison, is a shop bought breaburn apple weighing in at 5oz.
The home grown apples are EATING apples and they are totally delicious! This year they are quite a bit bigger. Earlier in the year I spread around the base of the tree some generous sprinklings of chicken manure and volcanic rock dust.
The theory has it that plants need the micro nutrients that are slowly released from the volcanic rock dust. If they don’t get enough micro nutrients then they can’t utilise efficiently the main three nutrients; nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium.
Well I do know one thing for sure. Volcanic rock dust when combined with some sort of poop seems to make things grow bigger and tastier!
I’ve had some giant courgettes as well. Courgettes do grow into ‘marrows’ if you leave them long enough. I left mine so that they were about a foot long and about four inches in diameter. They tasted fantastic, like no other that I’ve tasted before! There was no need to remove the seeds, they had an incredible flavour. They are just like normal courgettes but on a bigger scale and much tastier.
A friend dropped round to see me today, and I gave him some slices of raw beetroot that was grown in soil fertilised with well rotted cow manure and the volcanic rock dust. He kept helping himself to them as they were rather more-ish! I explained that once your body gets a taste for the minerals, you just want more!
The greens off my allotment are a bit like that too. Because I’ve not been able to get to the allotment much over the past 6 weeks, I’ve not been harvesting , nor eating as many greens as usual. A couple of days ago I went to the allotment and was about to chop down and throw out my overgrown spinach bed, it just looks too big! I’m glad I didn’t though, it’s quite tasty as it is, and it made the tastiest green juice that I’ve ever had. The juice was made with: mainly spinach, quite a bit of home grown parsley, a couple of oranges and a lime. I had a whole day of green juice (2 to 3 litres), with no solid food eaten. I wasn’t hungry at all. From the following day onwards, I have been ravenous for eating greens! My body has very quickly developed a taste for all the minerals, chlorophyll, and antioxidants again.
Any greens grown in soil fertilised with manure and rock dust are much more satifying and have a much better flavour than most of the greens that you can buy at the shop. The courgettes even taste slightly salty, I guess it’s the high concentration of minerals in them. Perhaps that’s why many people (and manufacturers) add salt to food, because their food is deficient in minerals (or is just tasteless!). If adding salt, perhaps the body is fooled into thinking this is good to eat. I rarely add salt to food any more, I haven’t had any at all for two months.
