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On Feb 14, 2008, at 5:03 pm, Robert Kesterson wrote:
>> We grew up eating directly out of our garden. As kids we would
>> often wander over to the garden and eat carrots that we merely
>> brushed off - onions too.
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> My kids still do that. So do I. You're never too old for that. :-)
Well you two are still alive so I guess it must be pretty safe.
>> Of course we never fertilized the garden, so there were no
>> chemicalsor manures on our vegetables.
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> None that you put there on purpose, anyway. :-)
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> There are always animals, insects, and microbes depositing their
> excrement all over the place. Personally, I do fertilize our
> garden, using composted chicken manure. The key word is composted.
> By the time it gets to the garden, the chicken manure has been
> composting, outdoors, for at least six months, usually more. By
> that time, the worms and soil microbes have turned it into something
> that looks like the crumbly dirt of the forest floor. I wouldn't
> dream of putting raw animal manures directly on the garden (which is
> what is said to have happened in the recent packaged vegetable cases
> you mentioned).
We have a vegetable compost heap that is home to a decent size family
of voles. If we had any manure, would you add it to this heap? Or
start a manure heap?
Sounds like soil is pretty safe after all. I was expecting a few
horror stories :)
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