Doggler
T'was I who mentioned the Soil Association and their two year rule. One of the reasons they give is that if the ground you wish to be classed as organic is full of rampant, perrenial, hard to shift, bloody deep rooted weeds, they advise you to spray them off with glyphosate, as hand weeding them when you have anything bigger than an alotment size patch is not an option - imagine trying to remove all the nettles, thistles, dockens, couch grass from 10 acres or more ! The two years then gives sufficient time for any traces of the chemical to all but vanish, as well as any artificial fertilisers, herbicides, insecticides that had been applied to the crops or ground previously

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Scottish by the Grace of God

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