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Is organic gardening viable?
On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:25:58 GMT, (The Watcher)
wrote: One factor rarely included in the cost/benefits analysis is the problem of possibly running out of fossil fuels(which is where many of the chemicals come from). It's kind of hard to establish a value for that, but it might be important somewhere down the road. Now I'm going to have to look up how much petroleum it takes to make a packet of MiracleGro. :-) Probably less than transporting a couple of truckloads of manure 20 miles. Encouraging dependence on 'artificial' fertilizer (and petroleum is really 'organic' ultra-compost) is unwise where it's expensive and organic substitutes are readily available. When we run out of oil, it's *not* going to be because we've been using too much commercial fertilizer. |
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