Healthy soil and sustainable growing

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

On Tue, 16 May 2006 20:07:25 +0200, you wrote:

>Pat,
>And if the cucumbers were being grown up on a trellis and quite well away 
>from splashing?
>I don't think the roots can take in bacteria like e.coli, for example, do 
>you?

I don't know.  I was being, as I implied, perhaps over
cautious *because* I don't *know*.  

>
>I confess that last summer we ate a lot of tomatoes that were growing not 
>too far from a bin of maturing humanure compost and so far no one in the 
>family seems the least bit unhealthy for it. But I wouldn't recommend that 
>to just anyone and I would not feed the tomatoes to someone unsuspecting!
>
>Really, do you or anyone else know just what the roots of vegetables can 
>take in from greywater? If not where could I find out?

There's a book about using humanure.  I haven't read it.

The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure,
Third Edition (Paperback)
by Joseph C. Jenkins 
See:  http://tinyurl.com/mru2l

You could also try Googling on 'humanure', 'greywater', and
'graywater' (note different spellings; I'd try both).

Cheers,
Pat

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