Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Let me be clear, I don't want to take chances with anything that hurts the 
production, and that covers a lot of territory. That said, it's often a 
mystery why a crop fails or doesn't produce. In some cases we may be able to 
trace the cause, in others not so much. For example, it's all too common for 
growers to blame the seed from a particular company, when they slipped up 
somewhere themselves. When a problem shows up in my garden the first place I 
look for the cause is in the mirror.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 3/21/2010 at 2:17 PM gloria@aquaponicfarm.com wrote:

>I have seen this happen using horse manure from a stable that buys hay
>from a broker who called it organic. Composted for a year in large
>pile and still killed the tomatoes
>
>Gloria
>Reliance Community Farms
>
>On Mar 21, 2010, at 3:00 PM, "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm afraid there's a lot of room for differences of fact and opinion
>> on this. For this article, I can't verify much of what they claim.
>> There's a lot of details in it with no references, and somebody said
>> it doesn't make it so. I do think it likely that some level of those
>> chemicals can affect plants, tho we haven't seen anything about
>> harming humans. As for compost materials from roadsides, I wouldn't
>> touch it anyway due to highway pollution.
>>
>> paul tradingpost@lobo.net
>>
>> Believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.
>> --  my grandmother
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> Residues of Picloram, Clopyralid or Aminopyralid Herbicide Create
>> Killer Compost
>> http://www.the-compost-gardener.com/picloram.html