Re: JI Fertilizer Conflict
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] JI Fertilizer Conflict
- From: J* J*
- Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 08:13:42 -0700
Nick Zentena wrote:
>
>
> On a sort of related note. I intend to take advantage of the
> city's compost program. Problem is they only sell it by the tonne.
> Nobody seems to have a clear idea how much a tonne is. Anybody have a
> rule of thumb to convert tonnes to cubic yards? Also can I assume the
> compost is safe?
>
One of the things that you should keep in mind with city sponsored
compost programs is that you have the potential of getting everybody
else's disease problems.
Not all disease or spore based diseases are killed in the composting
process. Spores in particular are difficult to kill in that phase of
their life.
John | "There be dragons here"
| Annotation used by ancient cartographers
| to indicate the edge of the known world.
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