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Do you compost
"Red" wrote in message ups.com... 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 |
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