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   Frank <"frank to songbird   
   Re: EWG's 2019 Dirty Dozen list   
   24 Mar 19 07:30:25   
   
   From: "@frank.net   
      
   On 3/24/2019 2:59 AM, songbird wrote:   
   > Frank wrote:   
   > ...   
   >> Guy that sold tomatoes nearby said that you'd have to replace soil in   
   >> the garden by maybe 5 ft deep to get rid of the blight.   
   >   
   >    which isn't ever going to happen...  especially   
   > considering it would likely come back for various   
   > reasons.   
   >   
   >    even if we have a lot of clay it has taken me   
   > a long time to get the garden soil in some of the   
   > patches to be fairly decent.  i'm surely not going   
   > to be removing it.  also considering i don't have   
   > any easy way to move it around other than a   
   > wheel barrow or bucket at a time.   
   >   
   >    i can live with it as it is.  :)   
   >   
   >   
   >    songbird   
   >   
      
   Not a lot of choice.  Even growing tomatoes in pots on the deck getting   
   it, I replaced all the soil with new and still got it.  I just put up   
   with the lower yields.   
      
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