Can I ask how you work with this green sand. When I buy it it is like wet clay. No lightly sprinkling under the plants. More like big wads of stuff. Help

Hi Starr, I guess that recent monsoon season is the culprit. One of the benefits of greensand is its water retention ability when added to bedding soil, but I can see what you mean about trying to distribute it when saturated. Once it gets wet inside those plastic bags, it seemingly stays that way forever. Try this - Wearing mud gloves, rub a clump between your hands to break it down gradually around the plants. Another idea is to dump it into a wheelbarrow, leave it in full sun and turn the sand with a shovel once or twice a day to speed up the drying out. Let us know how it goes.

Thanks for replying. We were not organic until last year when my husband used weed and feed on the grass around my achool garden ( without reading the directions) and not only killed the tiff bermuda but the kid's garden as well. This year we are totally organic! It will take another year to detox the garden, but I have been adding charcoal to it and we actually have weeds this season. i never thought I would be glad to pull weeds. The green sand is a conundrum. I did what you said and it seems to soak in better. Thanks again.
Organic is so much more fun.

Hello all,

One other way to mess with wet greensand and lavasand is to mix something dry with it. The best thing I have found is dry Humate. It is a little messy, but if you mix them together in a wheelbarrow and then add it to your fertilizer spreader...It will spread out wonderfully and you will get two things do at the same time..#One greensand out for iron and #two humate out as a ferilizer....

Sounds brilliant David. And the humate is reported to be an excellent neutralizer of toxic additives in the soil. Be sure to add some composted materials too, Starr.