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Re: *organic* SFG?

A quick greening up can be accomplished organically with foliar spray of
fish emulsion and seaweed.

At 10:35 AM 4/14/97 -0700, you wrote:
>okay, time to stir things up...
>
>anyone else out there choose to garden their SFG's organically?  i'm not a
>screaming fanatic (and have been awfully tempted by the boxes of fertilizer
>when things start yellowing a bit) but i prefer to garden as organically as
>possible.  funny thing is is that i'm a chemist...i guess i've just learned
>that there is an appropriate use for chemicals, and i feel it's *not* on my
>foods.
>
>BTW-  i've been playing around with my compost pile alot lately, and you know
>what i "discovered" which should speed things up...i threw all my w/e supply of
>kitchen scraps in the blender, pureed with some water, and poured it over my
>compost pile.  first, this  reduced the volume of scraps significantl;y (more
>room left in the compost pile).  second, it's definately maximizing the surface
>area of the scraps for easy decomposition (BTW:orange and banana peels were
>pulverized in no time!!).  anyone else ever do this???  i would think it would
>lend itself really well to worm bins (which i haven't gotten around to trying
>yet)
>
>i'd like to hear all of your comments on these two things...
>
>
>thyme
>
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