"Tumbleweed" wrote in message
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"Rodger Whitlock" wrote in
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 22:17:45 +0000 (UTC), Franz Heymann wrote:

...a person who believes in organic growing would (or should) object
strongly to using ash in a garden, since ash is entirely inorganic.

[I have a funny idea we've had this dispute before...]

Franz, you're confusing (istm) the technical sense of the word
"organic" as in "organic chemists make big stinks" with the
broader sense meaning, roughly, integrated, treated as a whole,
and so on.

Organic gardening means afaict gardening without using synthetic
fertilizers or pesti-/fungi-/insecticides.

....unless its a mixture of copper sulfate, slaked lime and salt in which
case its organic.
...apparently.

Yet, diesel oil, which is as organic as anything, is frowned upon as a
weedkiller

Franz