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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Am I the only one who looks up the MSDS sheets to find out what the heck is 
in stuff?  They're all online and thus, you can figure out real fast what 
you may or maynot be putting in the garden.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>



> In a message dated 1/27/2009 7:58:28 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> genegerue AT ruralize.com writes:
>
>
> > >You did, so
> > here is what I suggest: put in under fruit trees and ornamentals where
> > it will not leach into your veggie growing soil. That is what I do
> > with my raw humanure, which I believe to be safe but I choose to err
> > on the side of caution.
>
> That's reasonable.  Until I know for sure, as sure as one can be in this
> mortal life, I wouldn't put anything on my garden either.  Things is, in 
> this
> case,  a chemist, even a chemical aficionado, CAN be sure.
>
> That is, the 'can't be sure' could be applied to absolutely anything if we
> took it far enough and then we'd never put anything on the garden.  I had 
> one
> person tell me they'd never put horse manure on their garden because they 
> heard
> horse people routinely give horses toxic wormers and they want no such 
> goings
> on in their garden.
>
> I applaude the caution, but not the ignorance.  It behooves us then to 
> find
> out, as much as we of common clay can do, to find out what the facts 
> really
> are.   In this case the wormers are indeed toxic, to worms at least, and 
> entirely
> organic so they don't even survive the horse's gut intact, much less 
> rotting
> in the garden.
>
> Besides the paper and adhesive, both of which are organic and good fodder 
> for
> compost, USG made gypsum board is hydrated calcium sulfate.   Might they 
> have
> snuk other things in there we don't know about?  Always possible, but then
> again that's equally possible for anything you might put on the garden.
>
> James
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