Tuesday 9 June 2009

Organic : What does that mean?

It helps release nitrogen, minerals, and other nutrients for plant use when it rots. A mulch of partly rotted straw, compost, or undecomposed crop residue on the soil helps keep the soil surface from crusting, retards water loss from the soil, and keeps weeds from growing. Nearly any plant material can be composted to be used in the garden.

Leaves, old sod, lawn clippings, straw, and plant refuse from the garden or kitchen may be employed. Composting material should be kept moist and supplied with commercial manure, especially nitrogen, to make it rot quicker and more intensively. The sides of the bin shouldn't be airtight or watertight. Buy plr articles. A convenient time to make a compost pile is in the autumn when leaves are abundant. I stopped by the local Safeway store yesterday ( twenty-three Mar 05 ) and among other items got a quart of milk. No info, positively nothing, indicating why or how it was organic, whether it was authorized or not, what standards it went along with to be "organic" nada, zip, a large fat 0 . S "So what were the outcome of this survey? The ICR revealed that "two-thirds of the general public would be misled by the suggested USDA seal on many key issues : '68 % asserted they would translate a product labeled 'USDA Authorized Organic' to be more safe to eat than non-organic foods' ; '67 % assumed 'USDA Licensed Organic' to be better than non-organic foods ; and, '62 p.c believe "USDA Authorized Organic" to be more healthy for purchasers than non-organic foods'.