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Most people don't have Alkaline soil. That's why you put lime on fields, because it is too acidic.

We don't use Iron Sulfate as a fertilizer because it is absorbed by the plants and in things like corn the increase in Iron can make the things raised in the soil poisonous to Children and pets.

This isn't "new". And and it isn't patentable because it is a chemical that has been used for fertilizer in Kale and Spinach for 100+ years.

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Thanks for this. Anyone who's grown up near farms knows that Alkaline soil is hardly ever a problem. Lime is as much a part of fertilizing crops as the fertilizer itself.

I did not know about this being use for spinach and kale though. Pretty interesting.

I don't understand why everyone in this thread keeps missing this. It doesn't matter what soil "most people" have, the place where they have all the IEDs has highly alkaline soil that could actually benefit from this change.

IANAF, but it seems to be suggested that once land starts getting used for agriculture, the breakdown in organic compounds you will see in farming tends to make the soil more acid, less base.

So there are already factors that deal with the issue. Which, hey, makes the fertilizer great for bootstrapping a farm I would guess. Not for what the article suggests though.

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