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Boulder County Colorado USA planet Earth

I was wondering if anyone is certified organic. I am trying to become certified but i need some advice. email me if anyone is certified organic. coloradopolarbear@hotmail.com

11/12/2013 5:01:06 PM

Menomonie, WI (mail@gr8pumpkin.net)

You may be better off being "Naturally grown, or organically grown" The cost of certification was expensive 10 years ago can not imagine what it is now

11/12/2013 5:31:56 PM

Eurasia

Grow with fortune: grow chorganic!
Ch means chemical, ´cause you can´t grow wise, when you do not understand the chemistry behind organic substances.
And you also should add only the best chemical fertilizers to your organic mucking!
de facto:
Yesterday I did the autumn therapy for the soil in my mother´s greenhouse, where I restored soil a year before with iron chelate injections (with broad fork) and so did not want to dig all the iron up now.
Fine charcoal, sugar-beet-pulp-pellets and granulated dolomite I admixed only 3" to 4" deep with the garden claw.
Last year I had to disinfect this soil with crude calcium cyanamide to fight soilborn diseases, but next year I can use actinovate to prevent them.
Last year I added sand for more Si release in 2013, but this year I gave 10% Si with 60% Ca and 30% Mg in the granulates dolomite for 2014. No more compost or dirt should be added to such a clean substrate in green houses.
A chorganic soil is the best plant protection.
Last year my mother had to yield up her green house early September, ´cause too much diseases ruined tomatos and cucumbers, but this year she had club gourds until Halloween and tomatos until 20. November there with no greenhouse whitefly (she formerly always had) and only a little pseudomonas syringae. The later will be prevented with activonate from Texas next year. Of course we can´t use poisons like captan there, ´cause this systemic compound would kill all the streptomyces lydicus in actinovate.

12/1/2013 5:22:00 PM