"Red" wrote in message
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On Nov 6, 11:02 am, "SteveB" wrote:


My situation is this:

I can back my truck up at the local landfill, and for $20, they will fill
the back of an 8' bed with compost that they have made of organic
materials
they have made. This compost includes fertilizers and all the best of
things my taxes can buy.

Good enough for flower beds and general landscape use, but not for
vegetable gardens. You have no idea what herbicides & insecticides
was used on those "organic materials" before they went to the landfill
for composting. People put some really nasty things at really nasty
rates on their yards before they cut, bag, and put on the curb for
pickup.

Red


You think that's bad? Dillo Dirt includes treated sewage sludge. According
to the web site they claim it's save for use in gardens. I only use it on my
yard and flower beds but there is a chance we are eating food watered by
effluent from a waste water treatment plant anyway.

http://www.ci.austin.tx.us/water/dillo.htm

Yummy! Oh well, it usually just gets dumped in a river anyway. In Las
Cruces, NM the old treatment plant was so bad the effluent was dirtier than
the influent. Dumped right into the Rio Grande and to the pecan, lettuce,
onion, chili and all the other crops grown down there. They (Las Cruces)
built a new plant back in the 70's. We used to go swimming in that river all
the time.

Jim