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January 26, 2007 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: UK.
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Hidden dangers of manure problems/unless organic.
Just about this time of the year -lots of you are thinking of putting manure on your gardens and in your green house border soil etc.
Be very carefull where you obtain it from initialy,because the wheat or barley straw or hay usualy mixed in with it as bedding material for the animals- usualy has been treated when growing in the fields with up to eight different types of herbicide, and umpteeen pesticides. Tomato plants can somehow sense this in the straw/hay even if it is up to 6 months old, and about a week after you plant them they keel over and die/ or look burnt around the leaf edges. By far the safest way is to try and get manure from a farm that uses only totaly organic methods of farming. |
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