Re: Soil Additive Experiment, List Of Ingredients

GBPUMPKIN@aol.com wrote:

>  I seem to remember it being suggested to add dog food or cat food to a
>  compost pile as an activator.  Certainly all those high nitrogen "meals"
>  ought to pack some punch in that regard.

This may be BUT, what about all the fat? Cat food has, I seem to recall
quite a high fat content, how good can that be to add to the soil? I
also remember hearing that Corn (which is in both cat and dog food and
usually quite high on the list of ingredients) has certain growth
inhibitors. On another list I am on, anytime the subject of using Alfala
as an additive comes up, someone always makes a point of mentioning that
you should be certain that the Alfalfa contains NO corn.

Would we not be better off to use the individual vegetable based
ingredients found in dogfood, rather than the dogfood itself? And, what
about the problem of attracting animal pests with the food? Cat and Dog
food are quite expensive as well, it would probably cost less and be
better for the plants to stick to things like alfalfa, cottonseed meal
and green manure tea and leave the fat, chicken, and beef to the
carnivores.

-- 
Brian Cook              b*@interlog.com
Toronto/Port Perry      Ontario Canada


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