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Originally Posted by Richard
Mitchell,
You have every right to be proud of your garden and fruit production -- I have been envious of your fruit on more than one occasion. But to say your garden is chemical free propagates a lot of misunderstanding. It furthers the marketing goals of those who wish to cast "chemical" as a negative term. Fact is, we would all be in bad shape without the chemical oxygen.
The worm castings in your garden are about 1% nitrates, 0.5% phosphates, and 0.5% potash, plus about another 0.1% minors and micros by weight. These chemical salts are manufactured for you by your wild and untamed worms!
Beer is every bit as synthetic as water soluble fertilizers -- it even contains a surfactant. If you use beer to control slugs and snails in your garden then you are using a synthetic pesticide.
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The slugs climb in the can and die. Nothing is added to the soil, so how is that affecting the plants or the soil for that matter?
My point is that I do my best to keep it free of toxic chemicals and anything synthetic and the results have been satisfactory.
BTW, I'll take the Oxygen, you can have the Dioxin.
