My Coconut Juice Isn't Organice Yet?

[cateaway]

My coconut juice isn't organic (yet),, if I use cow manure from unknown farmers as fertilizer for my coconut trees? For example, I don't know what the cows've been fed.

Do u have any further suggestion about easy and simply organic fertilizer?

Thanks a lot

[gotlost]

Elephant shyt.

[loong]

There's organic and there's pedantic.

Is this because of requirements for your coconuts to be certified as organic? If so, then I can understand your concerns. If not, why worry?

I have to buy some vegetables as I cannot produce all I need/want for the whole year round. The veg that I buy are undoubtedly treated with pesticides and grown with chemical fertiliser. I compost the peelings etc and believe that any toxins are mostly destroyed in the composting process. I still consider that I grow my veg organically.

As long as you compost the cow dung first, is it really a problem?

[cateaway]

Elephant shyt.

It's only a national park near my garden, but I won't dare to go collect any.

[cateaway]

There's organic and there's pedantic.

Is this because of requirements for your coconuts to be certified as organic? If so, then I can understand your concerns. If not, why worry?

I have to buy some vegetables as I cannot produce all I need/want for the whole year round. The veg that I buy are undoubtedly treated with pesticides and grown with chemical fertiliser. I compost the peelings etc and believe that any toxins are mostly destroyed in the composting process. I still consider that I grow my veg organically.

As long as you compost the cow dung first, is it really a problem?

No problem. Just wanna do my best for it!!

[loong]

There's organic and there's pedantic.

Is this because of requirements for your coconuts to be certified as organic? If so, then I can understand your concerns. If not, why worry?

I have to buy some vegetables as I cannot produce all I need/want for the whole year round. The veg that I buy are undoubtedly treated with pesticides and grown with chemical fertiliser. I compost the peelings etc and believe that any toxins are mostly destroyed in the composting process. I still consider that I grow my veg organically.

As long as you compost the cow dung first, is it really a problem?

No problem. Just wanna do my best for it!!

And if you do your best, then you can feel proud of yourself. Just accept that certain aspects of your gardening/farming, you cannot have total control. Chemical air pollution is a fact and the rain will deposit these chemicals onto your land.

If you use manure/compost instead of chemicals, then you are being as organic as you can be.

Be proud that you are taking every step available to you to give nature a helping hand and also keeping it as natural as you can.

I, for one applaud you for your concern, but realistically, we can never do better than 99% organic.

[Foreverford]

QUOTE (loong @ 2010-05-05 09:33:22) There's organic and there's pedantic.

Is this because of requirements for your coconuts to be certified as organic? If so, then I can understand your concerns. If not, why worry?

I have to buy some vegetables as I cannot produce all I need/want for the whole year round. The veg that I buy are undoubtedly treated with pesticides and grown with chemical fertiliser. I compost the peelings etc and believe that any toxins are mostly destroyed in the composting process. I still consider that I grow my veg organically.

As long as you compost the cow dung first, is it really a problem?

No problem. Just wanna do my best for it!!

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