With all the exhortations to "get growing" in the alt health and truth communities, it is easy to get started in haste, as I did, and end up committing a critical, expensive, time and effort killing error.
*PLEASE* be extraordinarily careful about your soil source, whatever amendments you add, and here is why: AMINOPYRALIDS
Did not intend to insert a "black cloud" into such a bright, hearted and helpful series of posts on gardening, one of my favorite topics - just wanted to help any other beginners, or even experienced gardeners who hadn't yet heard the precautionary word on aminopyralid contamination, to avoid what was a heartbreaking - and wallet breaking - difficult experience for me that almost killed my gardening aspirations straight out of the starting gate.
I did a ton of trial and error to find out what worked and what didn't in Las Vegas (Zone 9). Eventually I became lazy and we just stuck with the fruit trees, though my Mom says both plum trees are experiencing a die off I believe is related to the ground being infested with slugs (Diatomous Earth I guess is good for that). I had good luck with swiss chard, kale, and collard greens in colder months and the sweet potatos went crazy for a time against the cool side of the wall, growing into beautiful vines. Those came from sweet potatoes left in a bag too long which were growing roots. I do that with potatoes and onions and garlic cloves too. Usually though the winter is just pomegranite, aloe and rosemary...
Dogsnose Knows
just now
*BLACK BOX WARNING* to new gardeners like myself!
With all the exhortations to "get growing" in the alt health and truth communities, it is easy to get started in haste, as I did, and end up committing a critical, expensive, time and effort killing error.
*PLEASE* be extraordinarily careful about your soil source, whatever amendments you add, and here is why: AMINOPYRALIDS
https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/charles-dowding-scott-head-discover-herbicide-contamination-hard-way/
https://www.thesurvivalgardener.com/another-garden-aminopyralid-strikes/
Having weaponized the air, food, water, soil is certainly also in the crosshairs of the psychopaths.
That aminopyralid "Grayzon" is wicked stuff! I had not encountered it until reading your link above.
Did not intend to insert a "black cloud" into such a bright, hearted and helpful series of posts on gardening, one of my favorite topics - just wanted to help any other beginners, or even experienced gardeners who hadn't yet heard the precautionary word on aminopyralid contamination, to avoid what was a heartbreaking - and wallet breaking - difficult experience for me that almost killed my gardening aspirations straight out of the starting gate.
Thank you for sharing the value of your very expensive investigation Dogsnose!
This is great info for a so far unsuccessful vegetable garden grower! Thank you all!
You are welcome, Barbara. I am really trying to be useful.
Nice read!
I did a ton of trial and error to find out what worked and what didn't in Las Vegas (Zone 9). Eventually I became lazy and we just stuck with the fruit trees, though my Mom says both plum trees are experiencing a die off I believe is related to the ground being infested with slugs (Diatomous Earth I guess is good for that). I had good luck with swiss chard, kale, and collard greens in colder months and the sweet potatos went crazy for a time against the cool side of the wall, growing into beautiful vines. Those came from sweet potatoes left in a bag too long which were growing roots. I do that with potatoes and onions and garlic cloves too. Usually though the winter is just pomegranite, aloe and rosemary...
Invasive food species are good, but it is a lot of work digging sweet potatoes.
Okra should also do well in Vegas.
Greens in winter ;-)
The banana plant in the picture is a dwarf Namwah type, from Thailand.
Most timely, topical, useful: https://www.naturalhealth365.com/urgent-news-growing-food-in-a-toxic-world.html
Thanks Dogsnose,
It's hard to completely know, but one might be able to know what happened on one's garden plot over the past 10-30 years.