{"id":12541,"date":"2018-10-05T14:52:32","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/plantenplagen\/rock-dust\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T17:04:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T16:04:44","slug":"rock-flour","status":"publish","type":"encyclopedia","link":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/en\/plantenplagen\/rock-flour\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock flour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&rdquo;2\/3&Prime;][vc_column_text el_class=&rdquo;topentry&rdquo;]Rock flour consists of finely ground volcanic rock and contains many minerals.<br>\n<!--more-->[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&rdquo;1\/3&Prime;][vc_column_text el_class=&rdquo;topentry&rdquo;]<em>Also known as:<\/em><br>\nMineral fines<br>\nRock powders<br>\nRock minerals[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&rdquo;2\/3&Prime;][vc_column_text el_class=&rdquo;introtxt&rdquo; el_id=&rdquo;introtxt&rdquo;]<strong>Rock flour<\/strong> or glacial flour consists of finely ground volcanic rock and contains many minerals. Rock flour is considered to be a soil conditioner and fertilizer, but Wageningen University &amp; Research research cannot confirm this.<br>\nOn the other hand, experiments with rock flour on sandy soils (heather, forest) because they are poor in minerals do seem to have a positive effect on the availability of minerals such as calcium, magnesium and potassium in the soil.<br>\nRock dust is a waste product of quarries.<\/p>\n<p>Ground limestone is used to make the soil less acidic &ndash; pH (acidity) is increased.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&rdquo;1\/3&Prime;][vc_single_image image=&rdquo;10591&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;medium&rdquo; add_caption=&rdquo;yes&rdquo; style=&rdquo;vc_box_rounded&rdquo; onclick=&rdquo;img_link_large&rdquo; img_link_target=&rdquo;_blank&rdquo;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"encyclopedia-category":[667,653],"encyclopedia-tag":[],"class_list":["post-12541","encyclopedia","type-encyclopedia","status-publish","hentry","encyclopedia-category-ornamental-garden","encyclopedia-category-vegetable-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia\/12541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/encyclopedia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-category?post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"encyclopedia-tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.plantenplagen.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/encyclopedia-tag?post=12541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}