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[Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>]

Good questions, Ginda.  Answers as follows:
1] I'm going to plant some pumpkin seeds in the compost to grow pumpkin 
seeds.   Pumpkin seeds are high in zinc.  I can expect the pumpkins to want 
zinc in the soil.
2] The U.S.A. diet in general is short in zinc.  I would much rather have my 
plants take up the zinc and eat the plants as food rather than myself taking 
zinc mineral directly.  Minerals as food can be absorbed much better in some 
cases than minerals taken directly.
3] I'll be consolidating two large i.e. 4' tallx5' longx4'wide compost piles 
into one in april turning both over to become one.
Charlie

list@ginda.us wrote:

> Charlie, how much compost are you talking about?  (Not that I have any
> idea what the answer to you question is.)  And why do you want to add
> zinc sulphate?  For the sulfer, the zinc, or both?
> Ginda

>  Charles Paradise wrote:
>
> > I'm going to turn over my compost pile in April.  I was thinking of
> > adding 5 lbs. of zinc sulphate mixed into throughout.   Would this be
> > an overdose?
> >
> > Charlie Paradise
> > zone 5/Massachusetts