From: "Cerumen"
Subject: compost heap question
Date: 31 October 2003 11:53


"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
...

My first thoughts on this are that you would be overloading your compost
heap with the chemicals of which the ash is composed.
Moreover, a person who believes in organic growing would (or should)
object
strongly to using ash in a garden, since ash is entirely inorganic.

Peat is totally comprised of plant matter how can it be considered
inorganic or am I missing something here?

Burning it to produce ash is not an organic process. It is an artificial
chemical process.

Franz

--
Chris Thomas
West Cork
Ireland

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:57:13 +0000 (UTC), "Franz Heymann"
wrote:


From: "Cerumen"
Subject: compost heap question
Date: 31 October 2003 11:53


"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
...

My first thoughts on this are that you would be overloading your compost
heap with the chemicals of which the ash is composed.
Moreover, a person who believes in organic growing would (or should)
object
strongly to using ash in a garden, since ash is entirely inorganic.

Peat is totally comprised of plant matter how can it be considered
inorganic or am I missing something here?

Burning it to produce ash is not an organic process. It is an artificial
chemical process.

You can't apply scientific definitions to "organic". The "organic"
world have redefined the meanings of scientific words to mean what
they want them to mean. You just have to accept it or ignore them.
--
Martin

In article ,
"Franz Heymann" writes:
|
| My first thoughts on this are that you would be overloading your compost
| heap with the chemicals of which the ash is composed.
| Moreover, a person who believes in organic growing would (or should)
| object
| strongly to using ash in a garden, since ash is entirely inorganic.
|
| Peat is totally comprised of plant matter how can it be considered
| inorganic or am I missing something here?
|
| Burning it to produce ash is not an organic process. It is an artificial
| chemical process.

It happens pretty often in nature, too. Why do you regard it as
artificial?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
...

In article ,
"Franz Heymann" writes:
|
| My first thoughts on this are that you would be overloading your
compost
| heap with the chemicals of which the ash is composed.
| Moreover, a person who believes in organic growing would (or should)
| object
| strongly to using ash in a garden, since ash is entirely inorganic.
|
| Peat is totally comprised of plant matter how can it be considered
| inorganic or am I missing something here?
|
| Burning it to produce ash is not an organic process. It is an
artificial
| chemical process.

It happens pretty often in nature, too. Why do you regard it as
artificial?

The burning of the peat about which we are talking is an artificial
chemical process initiated by holding a match to it.

Franz

"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
...

From: "Cerumen"
Subject: compost heap question
Date: 31 October 2003 11:53


"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
...

My first thoughts on this are that you would be overloading your compost
heap with the chemicals of which the ash is composed.
Moreover, a person who believes in organic growing would (or should)
object
strongly to using ash in a garden, since ash is entirely inorganic.

Peat is totally comprised of plant matter how can it be considered
inorganic or am I missing something here?

The attribution marks got tangled here. The above sentence belongs to
Cerumen and not to me.
Franz


Burning it to produce ash is not an organic process. It is an artificial
chemical process.

Franz

--
Chris Thomas
West Cork
Ireland