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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon AT mindspring.com>
  • To: market-farming
  • Subject: Re: Lowering PH Naturally
  • Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 09:03:50 -0500


On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 07:11:07 -0500, "Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>
wrote:

>The Rose Dusting powders that I have seen contain Copper Sulfate as the
>fungicide. In this case you would NOT want to put this on as a Sulfur
>source to lower pH because of Copper being a heavy metal which could come
>back to haunt you as a toxcity problem down the road!

Thanks, Peg.

It has been over 10 years since I used this product. The brands I used
back then contained only sulphur - there was nothing on the label that
indicated that it contained more then that. I was using it only on
ornamentals in my landscaping jobs.

Where can you buy wettable elemental sulphur appropriate for food
cropping?
Lawrence F. London, Jr. Venaura Farm
intergarden.com InterGarden
metalab.unc.edu/intergarden InterGarden
metalab.unc.edu/permaculture PermaSphere
metalab.unc.edu/intergarden/orgfarm AGINFO
lflondon AT mindspring.com london AT metalab.unc.edu




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