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Old 18-07-2009, 03:27 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening,rec.gardens,rec.gardens.edible
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Default Compost Heap. Horse Manure. Pathogens.

The string of illness and death due to contaminated leaf spinach was traced to a
field across the street from a herd of cows. Wild pigs were running thru the cow
pats and on into the field of spinach carrying the bacteria with them.

Ingrid
Somewhere between zone 5 and 6 tucked along the shore of Lake Michigan
on the council grounds of the Fox, Mascouten, Potawatomi, and Winnebago