[OKC] plant hunter

[Alig, Jennifer L.]

Thanks to Randy Marks for this.

 

Jennifer Alig

**My email has changed to Jennifer.Alig at deq.ok.gov.**

Loved this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/garden/29garden.html

 

Among other wonderful things this guy says:

 Mr. Avent said he stopped using pesticides and chemical fertilizer in
his outdoor gardens 20 years ago and was amazed at the improvement in
his soil and plants. Conventional wisdom says that plants can't tell the
difference between a chemical fertilizer and an organic one, he noted,
"but the microbes do - the fertilizer was burning up the compost."

After he switched to organics, he said, "it took about a year before
everything started jumping. Our insect problems disappeared. It was just
amazing."

 

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