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To fertilize or not to fertilize
If your yard was traditionally fertilizer poisoned, you will need about two years to be able to switch it to an organic yard. There are amendments required if you want a plot of green turf. The two easiest amendments are sugar water and stale beer. The sugar water can come in many forms, full-sweetner sodas, left over sweet tea, molasses, or a mix of your own. By adding these sticky liquids to your water can, you're feeding the bacteria and increasing absorb-able organic carbon. The plants and grass use this energy to increase leaf growth, which allows the plant to convert CO2 and fix Nitrogen. If you have a feed & seed store nearby, go ask for molasses. This isn't grandma's cookie molasses, but a sweetner that is added to livestock grain and is excellent for horticultural use.
If you have a good nursery to work with ask for Medina HastaGrow. You need to apply regularly, but this is the best biostimulator I know of, and will improve the soil in any yard or garden.On How to green your yard -- even more posted 1 year, 6 months ago 9 Responses
55 times what?
Filling bottles with boiling water boosted rates of Bisphenol A by up to 55 times more than room-temperature water did, according to the study published in the journal Toxicology Letters. I don't have, the Journal's data; 55 times what value? Chronic toxicity (1 gallon consumption and daily skin absorption for 65 years) values for BPA is 1.2 parts per million. Leaching concentrations I've seen in lab reports is on the part per trillion level.
Metal containers - jeez, talk about cool water leaching, ever seen corrosion or scaling?
Glass containers, oh yeah, more metals and a fragile container.
Give me a Bota Bag! Those goats didn't need their stomachs anymore. Economical, lightweight, reuseable, sustainable resource, and thousands of generations have used them before us.On Hot liquid increases toxic leaching from plastic bottles, says study posted 1 year, 9 months ago 9 Responses