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Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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Posted by struwwelpeter 5 (My Page) on Sun, Nov 1, 09 at 11:03
| Seems like it would be good to loosen heavy soils. |
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RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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| I've never used them, but if I had access to some, I'd use them. |
RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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| Rice hulls would be a good soil amendment but should not be the only part of the amendment. There is a relativly inexpensive synthetic fertilizer that uses rice as a filler and that rice will last on soil for only a short time. |
RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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| rice will last on soil for only a short time And, you know this because????? I doubt it. Rice hulls have a high silicate content that slows decomposition. Riceland Rice manufactures parboiled rice hulls as a substitute for perlite in potting mixes. |
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RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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| This topic has been discussed here before. Although not widely available outside of prime rice growing areas, rice hulls make an excellent soil amendment. It is my understanding that they are used a lot for stable bedding, so you might try looking for them at tack and feed stores - organic amendments are often much less expensive when sold for livestock purposes than specifically for garden purposes. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Rice hulls 101
RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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| It may just be how active the Soil Food Web in my soil is but the rice hulls I used to amend a planting bed one spring were not visible in the soil by late summer. Pretty much the same as the shredded leaves I use as mulch on those same planting beds. Those rice hulls were added to the soil the last year I tilled which may have something to do with how fast they were digested. |
RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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| the rice hulls I used to amend a planting bed one spring were not visible in the soil by late summer. Thanks. A variable may be the amount of soluble silicates where the rice is grown. In comparison, peat moss lasts about two years in my soil. Coir, about one year. |
RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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Peat moss stays visible in my soil for as long as 5 years. The soil bacteria apparently do not like it and will not even try to digest it, especially since they usually have access to much better food sources.
For most people using peat moss as a soil amendment is a large waste of money. |
RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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- Posted by pt03 3 Southern Manitoba (My Page) on
Sat, Nov 7, 09 at 8:26
| "Peat moss stays visible in my soil for as long as 5 years." I'm not a gardener but maybe take it out of the bag first? |
RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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| I use rice hulls as mulch for potted plants. |
RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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| Lol..Yeah, taking it out of the bag would help the peat to break down. I never saw peat last as long as five years but then I doubt I would recognize it after it had been run through the worms in tiny patch. But I think rice hulls would be a terrific soil amendment. Steve |
Here is a link that might be useful: rice hulls
RE: Anyone Use Rice Hulls as Soil Amendment?
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| It is my understanding that they are used a lot for stable bedding, so you might try looking for them at tack and feed stores - organic amendments are often much less expensive when sold for livestock purposes than specifically for garden purposes. There are plenty of race tracks in the Chicago area and the owner of a feed store (apparently there are only two) in the area never heard of "rice hulls." More specifically: The Feed Store
5400 S. Harlem Ave.
Summit, IL But, I have bought alfalfa meal from them. |
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