Re: Composting manure

"Farm1" <please@askifyouwannaknow> wrote in message
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I'm satisfied that any claim that the E. coli was IN the spinach is
not true.

lol, me too :-)

however, it's rather amazing how many otherwise-sensible people think e.
coli is not present at all in soil or on the surface of plants or in fact
anywhere at all unless bad poo-poo practices put it there. as e. coli is
indeed present in the guts of mammals to aid digestion, it therefore follows
e. coli is on every surface people or animals or their by-products touch, to
some degree. (degree will obviously vary ;-).

even our Dear Jackie 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


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