Matilda Zuckerman wrote:

Are you gonna eat that stuff ?

Not me.


I have eaten plenty of wildraspberries growing in manmade dump sites abandoned.
I consider the entire plant as a screening or sieve of any trash in
the soil and that the berry itself is as clean and pure as one grown in an
organic orchard.

Now, your reply got me to thinking as to why perhaps raspberries love
trashpiles.

Consider entropy, the measure of disorder. And consider that plain dirt
soil at a given place or site is near to its lowest entropy.

Hard to believe that trash contains alot less entropy, a lot less disorder.
And that trash and garbage contain alot of order and thus energy.
Trash such as plastics and glass and metal and asphalt and paper
and wax and discarded kitchen wastes.

And so, if any one of us were a plant, we would love to have that
supplemented into the soil around us because that more ordered energy
will be broken down and in the breakdown will nourish the plants.

Also, trash and garbage aerate the soil more than normal soil.

I believe that is some of the answer to the question as to whether plants
like trash and garbage put into the soil.

There should be some means of quantifying and researching the above
questions.

Archimedes Plutonium,
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies