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Re: slugs, N2, etc.

nonayobusiness wrote:
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> I have decided not to use blood meal or bone meal any more, because I heard
> that there is a slight chance that you can get mad cow disease from it, and
> I have enough problems of my own with my brain, without importing the
> problems of some cow or something...
> 

There's a lot of discussion and more than a little paranoia on the
subject.  Since cattle in the U.S. have never been fed sheep offal I'm
not too worried about my local blood or bone meal being infected.  Even
if the chance was there I'm in much more danger on my daily commute.  So
I'm going to keep using bonemeal in all my fertilizers and blood meal as
appropriate.  Maybe the scare will drive down the price! 

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> Has anybody ever used the pots you make out of newspaper?  I remember
> seeing an advertisement for a tool to make them in a magazine, and I
> figured out how to make them, using 2 small, different sized cans, but I
> never used them.

I made a paper pot maker out of firewood, on my homemade woodlathe. 
(No, I'm not a self-sufficiency nut; I just enjoyed the process of
making the lathe more than I actually enjoy making things *on* the
lathe.)  Works just fine, but I'm still mostly a plastic pot user.

Steve  (Maritime...)

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