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  • From: "Peg Cook" <pegcook AT northnet.org>
  • To: "market farming" <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Lowering PH Naturally
  • Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:54:30 -0500


Often times Garden Centers will have it or maybe an Agway (or store of that
nature). You may have to ask for it specifically as "elemental, wettable
Sulfur", though.

Peg Cook
Cook's Consulting

pegcook AT northnet.org

----- Original Message -----
From: Lawrence F. London, Jr. <lflondon AT mindspring.com>
Newsgroups: market-farming
To: market farming <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: Lowering PH Naturally


> 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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