Contaminated farmyard manure stunting garden growth[UK]

Telegraph ^ | 23 June 2008 | Charles Clover

[Gabz]

Garden Ping

[labette]

Bad things can happen if you don’t know your -—stuff.

[Red Badger]

Sounds like some bad s#!7!............

[OB1kNOb]

[hoe_cake]

Thanks for this ping. Fortunately for me, due to the drought in Georgia, my garden areas are so small now and I make my own compost, so am able to control the ingredients in my fertilizer. This also includes the tomato salmonella problem.

[blam]

(Ahem) In the middle of a worldwide food shortage too.

BTW, I've made about 6-8 vegetable baskets (actually bags) from my garden to pass out to my friends and neighbors today. I'm being over-run.

[Arrowhead1952]

The Natural Gardener show on Saturday morning had something about using this in gardens. He also talked about using “dillo dirt” [which is treated sewage sediments] on yards. Dillow dirt can have prescription drugs or illegal drugs that pass through your body, and can be absorbed into your skin or your pets as well.

[Gabz]

Due to excessive rains, my gardens are getting a late start, but yesterday Virginia tomatoes were declared “safe” from the salmonella problems. Which is good news as the first/early harvest is now starting in parts of VA.

[TexasNative2000]

Another good argument for composting your own fertilizer. You control what goes into it and how long it brews.

[Gabz]

Interesting.

[hoe_cake]

excessive rains? Now you know how to hurt a gal, don’t you?

[Gabz]

You’ve got that right.

[Oshkalaboomboom]

Thanks for this ping. Fortunately for me, due to the drought in Georgia, my garden areas are so small now and I make my own compost, so am able to control the ingredients in my fertilizer. This also includes the tomato salmonella problem.

We are using the runoff from our air conditioners to water our garden. We catch it in containers and any extra goes in gallon milk jugs so mosquitoes can't lay eggs in the open water.

[Gabz]

Sorry, didn’t mean to add insult to injury.

I was sitting out on the deck the other day starting seeds, surrounded by a dozen or so seed trays in various stages of germination and growth when the wind picked up and it started raining. I got hubby and daughter to give me a hand hauling them all back in the house.......it really irked me because by the time we got the last one in, the rain up and quit.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

[hoe_cake]

milk jugs hinder mosquitos? I’ll make a note of this.

I always thought the freon (or whatever) in air conditioner run-off killed plants.

[hoe_cake]

oh, keep it up, Gabz! :`)

I’m scooping water out of my showers, sinks, and tubs with buckets to water my gardens.

We’re allowed to “hand-water” 25 minutes on Sunday, between 6am and 10am.

I am bracing myself to lose quite a few shrubs this summer.

[Ditter]

Whre are you?

[TexasNative2000]

Nope - the 'run-off' is simply condensation from the cooling unit.

BTW, the removal of humidity in the air was the original intent of Mr. Carrier, who is credited with inventing air-conditioning. He wasn't trying to create a cooling system, just a humidity removal system..... Talk about serendipity.

[Old Professer]

It is only water that is pulled from the living areas as humidity; no refrigerant gas contaminates it.