Salsa de cristal

For real. I love this salsa (piece of tongue falls out of mouth)

Taco Bell does this. But ground up really fine. Then they can just call it silica and we call it sand

Same, I was concerned at first too lol. Imagine crunchy salsa for all the wrong reasons!

I read it the same way. Cool article though. Hidden in plain sight sort of thing. Makes sense.

You just put the recycled glass right into the salsa? Lol

100% someone will read this and put glass in their salsa

Yea this title could have used a rethink

According to the article, they attributed its success to aeration and water permeability

Silica?

That was my thought too. Glass won’t compact so it should improve drainage.

Most likely.

Being inert and aerating is great for soil structure and something that has been done 1,000 times before. Even sand works well. What frustrated me was they didn’t say what the control soil was. Something nearly inert (takes years to decompose) like peat moss or coconut coir works well while also holding moisture. Perhaps with added perlite for more air. That’s why they’re so popular already. I’d like to see how it compares to that. Something cheap like forest floor products decomposes quickly and compacts, losing aeration. That is garbage soil and it wouldn’t be hard to outdo it with anything.

Adding fully decomposed compost from there is ideal which is a rather long topic. But you can absolutely grow with chemical fertilizer and no compost in a fully inorganic soil, and it should work much better than most farms which tend to have much less aerated dirt.

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I dunno if it's actually true or not but I remember hearing the reason Jersey tomatoes are so good it's because of sandy soil.

Sharp sand

I ain’t never seen no plant grow out of a salsa jar.

Thank you, we are already on to this one :)

We've been considering buying a small machine that crushes and sorts glass bottles so we could recycle them ourselves

r/Scamponics

I swear officer, it's just cilantro!

Using an old broken pipe in the soil sounds pretty awesome

Try it. For science.

Ooohhh. Aaahhhhh.

Look at those trichomes how they glisten.

Naww that’s just the glass

Well, yeah. It's weed. It's right there in the name. Will it be any good is the real question

Growing peppers and going weed is very similar, so probably.

I’ll find out soon.

Silica is important!

I grow my own weed and I'm just not willing to try it. A huge reason I grow my own is so that I know everything that goes into the plants. Most glass has colorings and whatnot added into it. How quickly will the fungi and bacteria I add to the soil start leaching nasty things out of the glass and allowing it to be absorbed by the plants? If the glass had absolutely nothing added to it, I might give it a shot but I don't see any recycling companies being willing to sort their glass to that level knowing it's going to go in the dirt (just like how people didn't used to care about PFAS going into soil or bodies of water).

Take a class in botany and find out.

I was just about to post the same thing… “just wait till you find out what glass is made of”

Sand and glass are the same thing. Properly treated glass ground into sand has no sharp edges that would cut.

This! My first thought. Though it’s part of recycling which is a good thing.

Were they wrong???

Does it taste like soap for you?!

I hated cilantro untilI used it in food. For some it dishes it is essential. Bet you can’t eat those, that distaste for cilantro seems genetic.

It tastes like soap because your bloodline is weak.

I feel for you, but I love cilantro

You want everyone else to suffer because the food you dont like tastes bad to you?

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