Because when the soil needs more than what can be added as organic, you go with
the store bought stuff. Also, a little bit of info, nitrogen is not realy
organic at all, it's an eleament that can be found in lots of stuff, from plants
to multi-ton beams of Steel.

When I tested the Desert soil for my garden, the N level was so low as to be -0,
so I've had to use store bought stuff to build it up faster than I could have
done any other way. And it's not hurt my Iris & Canna one little bit.


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"animaux" wrote in message
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 01:26:11 GMT, "David Bunch" opined:

If a person were to add chemical fertilizer to a pond to spur an algae
bloom, then to harvest the algae for use as compost, would that still be
considered "organic gardening"?


No. Why not use a natural form of nitrogen? Synthetic nitrogen is putrid.


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