Originally Posted by Chironex (Post 52154)

... Where is the K mag stuff?

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Originally Posted by momoese (Post 52408)

On your "are you growing organically" page which I really enjoyed reading I couldn't help but notice you make no reference to Veganic gardening. Where would that fit in to the examples you gave? It's my understanding that Veganic growing methods use only organically grown plant waste/compost. No animal by products can be used, but what about naturally occurring minerals and such that have been mined?

Originally Posted by momoese (Post 52408)

Do you have an opinion on this way of growing?

Originally Posted by BIGDAWG69 (Post 52445)

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Originally Posted by Richard (Post 52500)

Ivey, Thanks for the validators! Although I think they more conform to Microsoft's idea of HTML than say, w3.org. For example, it's perfectly o.k. to have a "table" within the scope of a "span", but both of these validators reject it.

Originally Posted by Richard (Post 52498)

Mitchel, prior to writing the article I discussed "vegan" growing with many people here in San Diego county. Even among people with a vegan diet, it seems that there are several narrow (and sometimes defiant) definitions of "vegan gardening". So I opted to coin a new term "bio-organic" and also give them the word "strict" to play with. Of the Vegans who read the article, some of them said that their practices are more "progressive", or "strictly vegetarian", and I think in general they now understand that their choices are more individual than universal.



Well, maybe some observations. The first concerns the diet motivations of vegetarians and the stricter vegans. Now among vegetarians there are those whose principle desire is to not eat slaughtered animals and in general these folks are opposed to raising animals for food. However, the vast majority of this group will drink milk because they see it as a "natural" phenomena in our world. Vegans are essentially a schism of vegetarians that reject this idea, although they appear to be internally conflicted over the issue of human milk. My observation is that "Veganism" is a faith-based principle, and is not based on any external heuristic or observable physical/biological process.

My second observation is that for organic and especially vegan gardeners to produce sustainable, self-sufficient crops over many years tilling the same soil, they will incur substantial costs in plant nutrition: 5 to 10 times more than those willing to work with nutrients from non-plant sources. For example, phosphorus that has been chemically extracted from poultry manure is far cheaper than phosphorus extracted from plants -- because it is uncommon for plants to have phosphorus in significant quantity. Consequently, as organic gardeners "wear-out" the minerals originally in their soil, the replacement costs become high.

Originally Posted by Chironex (Post 67203)

Richard, I wonder if you might add a section about container grown plant amendments. Perhaps you will also offer containers, since you seem to be connected with some great sources.
I don't care for any B/B, just a thought.