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Ironite Questions?
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:38:03 -0400, Bill
wrote: Penelope Periwinkle wrote: I understand. There doesn't seem to be much sympathy for people on a budget or people who don't have easy access to organic products; but I understand where you're coming from. I have difficulty with the idea of organic soil amendments that have the word product included. Why? Not everyone has the time or the free access you appear to have to organic...er...materials. Should they be banned from trying to garden organically? Sure dried blood, bone meal etc. and other products are costly. But is it not a fundamental idea to put back into the soil more than we take out. Aside Bone meal and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease scary. I don't use bone meal or blood meal for much the same reason. I did go quite a long distance this spring to get a bag of pelleted soil amendment that was made from a blend of cotton seed meal and other goodies like that because it didn't use bone or blood meal. It's still kinda high in nitrogen, though, so I used it on the lawn this spring, and set aside a bit to till into the vegetable garden this winter. I figure it will have been broken down enough by spring that the nitrogen won't be a problem. How to do it becomes the issue. Cover crops, manures, anything once alive. I favor wood chips as I get them delivered for free. Then there are the trips about to barber shops to take the waste hair. Making friends with the local high cafeteria folks to take the garbage. Keeping those teaming microbes alive and well so we can eat off the top of the chain. Maria has already described the steps she takes to incorporate compost and yard clippings into her garden. I use horse manure, although I have no one to deliver it, and must find the time to go and load lots of buckets and trash cans, as many as I can fit into my car. Both of us still find a need for store bought products once in a while. I don't use cover crops or green manures because I find the horse manure already raises the nitrogen in the soil higher than makes me happy. I can't get yard litter from the city compost pile anymore, it proved to be such a popular item that the city charges for it, even for a few grocery bagfuls. Well, I shouldn't say "can't", I could, but I refuse to pay what they're charging for a product of marginal quality. As to begging for...um...materials from cafeteria employees, high or cold sober, for me it's mostly a time issue. Bully for you that you have the luxury of time to do things like that. I don't right now. I would like you to explain the difference to the bacteria, fungi, and the like between store bought organic products and...uh...materials you sponged off someone for free? Bill wondering why my eyelid is itching. ) Along as it's not frothing... Penelope -- "Maybe you'd like to ask the Wizard for a heart." "ElissaAnn" |
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