Posted by David in Normandy on September 3, 2010, 3:55 am
Quote: "Compost manufacturers are considering putting warnings about
Legionnaires' disease on their bags following advice from the Royal
Horticultural Society."
The full article:
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7978133/Potting-plants-could-cause-Legionnaires-disease.html>
Personally I enjoy getting my hands into the compost, it is half the fun
of potting up plants!
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Posted by Sacha on September 3, 2010, 4:45 am
On 2010-09-03 08:55:03 +0100, David in Normandy
> Quote: "Compost manufacturers are considering putting warnings about
> Legionnaires' disease on their bags following advice from the Royal
> Horticultural Society."
>
> The full article:
>
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7978133/Potting-plants-could-cause-Legionnaires-disease.html>
Personally
>
> I enjoy getting my hands into the compost, it is half the fun of
> potting up plants!
Hang on - I'm just dashing out to the nursery......!
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Posted by David in Normandy on September 3, 2010, 7:31 am
On 03/09/2010 10:45, Sacha wrote:
> On 2010-09-03 08:55:03 +0100, David in Normandy
>> Quote: "Compost manufacturers are considering putting warnings about
>> Legionnaires' disease on their bags following advice from the Royal
>> Horticultural Society."
>>
>> The full article:
>>
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7978133/Potting-plants-could-cause-Legionnaires-disease.html>
>>
> Personally
>>
>> I enjoy getting my hands into the compost, it is half the fun of
>> potting up plants!
> Hang on - I'm just dashing out to the nursery......!
I've noticed that bags of some cheap compost have a very strong smell -
any idea what that is? I can't decide if it is some sort of man-made
chemical smell or some sort of decomposition related odour. Such compost
often has white fungus of some sort growing in it, so is clearly far
from sterile.
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Posted by ®óñ© © ²°¹° on September 3, 2010, 7:49 am
On Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:31:50 +0200, David in Normandy
>On 03/09/2010 10:45, Sacha wrote:
>> On 2010-09-03 08:55:03 +0100, David in Normandy
>>
>>> Quote: "Compost manufacturers are considering putting warnings about
>>> Legionnaires' disease on their bags following advice from the Royal
>>> Horticultural Society."
>>>
>>> The full article:
>>>
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7978133/Potting-plants-could-cause-Legionnaires-disease.html>
>>>
>>
>> Personally
>>>
>>> I enjoy getting my hands into the compost, it is half the fun of
>>> potting up plants!
>>
>> Hang on - I'm just dashing out to the nursery......!
>I've noticed that bags of some cheap compost have a very strong smell -
>any idea what that is? I can't decide if it is some sort of man-made
>chemical smell or some sort of decomposition related odour. Such compost
>often has white fungus of some sort growing in it, so is clearly far
>from sterile.
Added spent mushroom compost?
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Posted by Derek on September 3, 2010, 7:06 am
>Personally I enjoy getting my hands into the compost, it is half the fun
>of potting up plants!
Yesterday evening at our Society meeting we had a visiting speaker who
used to work in the Garden Trade, and now retired still runs a small
nursury. After fifty years he now, when potting up using compost,
wears disposal latex gloves.
www.lincolnfuchsiasociety.info
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> Legionnaires' disease on their bags following advice from the Royal
> Horticultural Society."
>
> The full article:
>