[Market-farming] bulk compost, peat, etc.
OakCamp2 at aol.com
OakCamp2 at aol.com
Thu Jan 8 14:31:54 EST 2004
Matt,
While you are keeping your eyes out for sources of organic material and
compost, ask what is in everything you get. You will only want vegetative compost-
stuff that comes from other plant material and is free of pesticides and
herbicides. A lot of the stuff coming from lawn mowing companies will probably
have pesticides in it. You should check the sources of everything you are
going to put on your wonderful veggie transplants. Any good compost supplier will
have a chemical analysis done on their finished compost, so ask to see it.
Look for the unobvious results (they will highlight the NPK results) like
selenium, aluminum, other heavy metals because they are indicators of problems with
the compost.
HTH,
Barb Birkinbine
Oak Camp Herb Farm
In a message dated 1/8/2004 11:42:32 AM Central Standard Time,
cheselka at mksit.net writes:
The point is that I've found that I *must*
be a vegetable farmer. So size and profit doesn't really matter as long
as I can grow happy veggies and get people to regularly take them home
with them and eat 'em.
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