Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pat Meadows <pat@meadows.pair.com>]

On Mon, 27 Mar 2006 14:26:46 -0700, you wrote:

>
>Somebody correct me if this is wrong, but I don't think those "prions" 
>survive in soil at all (if there's anything to the prion theory in the first 
>place). Proteins decompose naturally. They can't be taken up directly by 
>plants.  I'd go with the bone meal for the calcium and phosphorus. 

No, this isn't correct, from what I have read.  (I haven't
time to dig up sources, sorry.)

I don't use bone meal and wouldn't recommend it, for this
reason.

Pat
-- northern Pennsylvania
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