Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>]

I understand. What I don't know is how to avoid all the potential
contaminants in everything ;-) Like most organic folks I just do what I
can, what seems practical and affordable. On a home garden scale it looks
like making mush of alfalfa pellets is the cheapest way to add N and some
minerals in a hurry. 

paul, tradingpost@riseup.net

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. 
--Henry David Thoreau 
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On 7/3/2006 at 1:11 PM Pat Meadows wrote:

>On Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:02:35 -0600, you wrote:
>
>>
>>Various cover crop seeds are carried by feed stores everywhere. Here's
one
>>I just saw online http://cooperseeds.com/organics.php3?cat=Cover%20Crops
>. 
>>
>>What's puzzling to me at this point is how best to use amendments like
>bone
>>meal, fish meal, etc since I have a quantity picked up at Rowlands' going
>>out of business sale in Abq. Mixed in compost for spreading on the soil
>>surface to sprout cover crops? Or double digging in this summer heat?
Like
>>some others here I'm no "spring chicken" ;-) 
>
>Paul, I'd be very wary of bone meal - I wouldn't want to
>spread it around my garden if there's even a vanishingly
>slim possibility of it containing a BSE-type organism. 
>
>There's a ton of information out there on this; but here's
>just one page:  http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/%7Ecomm/bse-ra.html
>
>If the FDA thinks it's even vaguely possible that
>*cosmetics* could carry BSE, I'd think it more likely that
>bone meal could.  
>
>Fish meal, OTOH, as far as I know, would be OK to use.
>
>Pat (who is very glad she doesn't use any cosmetics!)
>-- Gardening in northern Pennsylvania.
>
>Growing some of our own food, eating local foods,
>cooking basic foods; transforming the planet -
>one cucumber at a time, one salad at a time, one
>meal at a time.   
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