Re: Composting manure

"Mary Fisher" <mary.fisher@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"0tterbot" <spl@xxxxx> wrote in message
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even our Dear Jackie

Who?

jackie french, gardener extraordinaire.

said not to put grey water on root crops, lest the evil small traces of
e. coli in shower water get "in" your root crops. it's the only dumb
thing i've ever known her to say so far, but really. it's tickety-boo to
put horse manure all over your root crops for the worms to drag down, but
god forbid the shower water goes on them ;-) e. coli can't survive in a
carrot for months, for heaven's sake.
kylie

It sounds as though Dear Jackie is a politican. They're politicans because
they have no specialist ideas as a rule. If they had they'd be earning
honest money.

ya, but she's not one :-)

i've noticed in gardening that sometimes otherwise sensible people (even
me!! ;-) will sincerely believe something that's actually completely
illogical and maybe even nuts. noticed the same thing concerning animals &
livestock a lot too. well, in fact, it's probably across the board of human
endeavours <g>. BUT because gardening (and livestock) involves food (often),
some people get a bit carried away with their weirdities at times & feel
obliged to say illogical things that probably if it wasn't food-related,
they'd not bother saying or thinking about. i don't know.

(i suppose it's one of those subjects where, once a person has had a sincere
belief for a thousand years, it's hard for them to realise it might be
illogical after all.)

one good example pertaining to this group might be: the (apparent[?] ... do
correct me if i'm wrong) ban in the u.k. on chickens eating cooked meat
which isn't even a chicken and isn't anything's brain either. it's not
logical. but it involves food, so hey. ban it.
kylie


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