It's lacking the shit. (organics)
It's lacking the shit. (organics)
Someone sold the top soil years ago. That ain't no farm.
I'm not sure who the NCDACS is, but where I live the MOE recomends chicken poop as a good alternative to synthetic fertalizers. Wow that was a struggle, my R key is pooched!
North Carolina Dept of Agriculture & Consumer Services
Whaaa?
North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
synthetic fertilizers suck and for the sake of the environment ought to be banned.
They do suck a lot. Most customers request it since it provides the best results, however we atleast usea 50% organic/synthetic mix, which is a little better. And for our organic customers they get chicken poop with acedic acid/yucca for weed control.
I wonder why? One is full of bacteria (possibly with other viruses, parasites) - and of fluctuating chemical composition
- while the other is sterile clean, and formulated to exactly match the plant's chemical needs.
LOL. And return to the days of e coli, cholera, listeria, dysentery, and foodstuffs mishapen and unappealing due to proper mineral balance?
BTW - there's nothing "synthetic" about chemical fertilizers. Chemically, there is no difference whatsoever - except for uniform composition and lack of impurities. Science - not voodoo traditions.
I believe that it is sterilized beforehand else the bags would have a biohazard symbol on them.
You know, if you do like I do, and every time you cut the grass, just pile it all in a wheelbarrow, roll it 'round back & put it on the compost pile, you don't ever have to buy chemical fertilizers.
Does help to use a pitch-fork and turn the pile once in a while. That's a good time to add in the vegetable scraps, coffee grounds & egg shells.
About once a year, I run it through a chipper/shredder & move it over to the second pile. That's also a good time for cleaning up any volunteer shrubbery & walnut trees and shred them into the second pile as well. Anything 1/2" or more gets cut up for kindlin'
Second pile's also goes thru the shredder (with the fine screen) & gets moved to the third pile.
To me, the third pile looks just like the topsoil they sell in bags at Lowes or Home Depot.
Plus you never gotta' buy bait. There's plenty of worms in there if ya' wanna' go fishin'.
Compost it & the heat it generates will sterilize it for you.
best, Jim
LOL - never thought of buying chicken manure by the bag.. Pickup truck yes - bag no !! Sterilized chicken shit ?? - what next ?
And hope that fine roots don't invade your pile and make it so bound up you can't get a shovel in it.
And warn the unaware - not to use fresh chicken manure cause it burns the vegetation. What are poultry farmers using for floor cover in your area ? Hate like hell to have 75% woodchips spread over my lawn.
Sterilied mouse turds, in little tiny bags you can put in your walls, with a plastic dishwasher-safe reusable applicator.
That might just become the code in Cary for wall insulation!
We had plenty of that during the Carter administration...
I can see the rack in Cary Home Depots now: *color co-ordinated* matched sets of dishwasher-safe reusable applicators (with carbon-fiber handles), $90 ...
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