Home Gardens Ruined by Toxic Fertilizer

re: Home Gardens Ruined by Toxic Fertilizer

Magnolia — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:36:45 GMT

Composting is the best way to insure that a horror like this does not ever happen. We put grass clippings, leaves, veggie peels, and overripe fruits and veggies in the heap, with a separate pile for smaller branches and twigs. Nothing is lost.

If only material from one's own garden and market-bought organic fruits and veggies are used, there is little chance for contamination.

A horror story like this does not have to happen. Herbicides haven't always been used. My uncles did not use them back in the 1950s and 1960s on their farm. They used a sling blade on the big weeds and good old fashioned hand pulling on the little ones. I know because I pulled many of them as a child. Also, they had cows to eat a lot of the lower growing vegetation. When I was very little, a mule pulled the plow. There were pigs to eat leftovers and chickens who scratched around everywhere.

Here's to a cleaner life for all humanity!

re: Home Gardens Ruined by Toxic Fertilizer

Aaltrude — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:52:50 GMT

This situation highlights why our organic standards in New Zealand are very strong on verifying the source of all farm inputs. We supply horse manure to a number of organic farms in our area. Because we received the horses since the last audit that was done on our property for organic certification, the horse manure is not yet included on our organic certificate therefore we have to supply these farms with a statement that verifies the horses have been kept in accordance with the organic standards.

re: Home Gardens Ruined by Toxic Fertilizer

JWRM42 — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:34:39 GMT

I think just a little bit more than just the home gardens were ruined [or atleast damaged] by the toxic fertilizer... The land that was sprayed, the cows that ate the grass, horses that ate the hay from the land, kids playing cricket [I guess they play that in UK] in Farmer William's field, ect.

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