Be careful with hay in gardens. Alfalfa is ok (until it's all GM) because they can't spray it with herbicides as the alfalfa would die too. These herbicides don't break down for 7 years or so and I just got some free straw that's been sitting outside for many years, but I'm still testing it first before using it in the garden:
http://highdesertpermaculture.org/blog/2010/11/26/test-results-herbicides-in-our-straw-our-horse-manure-is-ok/
Christine
At 09:45 AM 4/30/2011, you wrote:
That is okay,
About all I put into my soil is leaves.
Once in a while a little organic fertilizer.
Sometimes hay that is well broken down after using it for mulch for a couple years.
Alan
--- On Sat, 4/30/11, Christine Baker <christine@bayhouse.com> wrote:
- From: Christine Baker <christine@bayhouse.com>
- Subject: Re: [papercreters] Everybody working hard?
- To: papercreters@yahoogroups.com
- Date: Saturday, April 30, 2011, 12:37 PM
- Vermiculite often contains asbestos. They do sell horticultural vermiculite for gardening they claim to be asbestos free, but I read that it's dangerous for the people who work in the mines and I don't use it anymore.
- They say perlite is ok. We use rice hulls for seedling soil now, but don't know how that would work in papercrete.
- http://www.hummert.com/ProductDetail.aspx?Page=ProductSearchList.aspx&ID=9062&Text=rice%20hulls
- It really IS compressed and goes a long way.
- Christine
- At 06:11 AM 4/30/2011, you wrote:
- Thanks, Lee.
- Next time I go to Missouri I will drop by there and pick up several bags of perlite.
- Their Earth City location is right on the way.
- Alan in Michigan
- Subject: Re: [papercreters] Everybody working hard?
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