Thread: Miracle Grow and the Organics
View Single Post
  #9   Report Post  
Old 15-05-2007, 05:01 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible
Salmon Egg Salmon Egg is offline
external usenet poster
  
First recorded activity by GardenBanter: Aug 2006
Posts: 42
Default Miracle Grow and the Organics
On 5/15/07 8:21 AM, in article
, "William
Rose" wrote:

Ignore the unfounded ruminations of Jon Shemitz. Plants don't care where
their NO3- come from as long as they get it and it isn't too
concentrated. Using chemical fertilizers is like hydroponics, where the
dirt is the inert medium but, you can't recycle the nutrient solution.
In the midwest (among other places), it ends up in the aquifers where
NO3- makes babies sick when tap water is boiled and added to powdered
formula.

If you do hydroponic growing, use the spent nutrient on your soil plants.
There still is plenty of good plant nutrition in there.

Bill
-- Fermez le Bush--about two years to go.


Reply With QuoteReply With Quote