Chemical Gardening

[alan refail]

Hi Jenny

I don’t know about the First World War Jenny but I had heard that modern recruits were not in such good condition as the Second WW ones.

All I can think is that perhaps the First WW recruits were deprived of the benefits of eating all those 1940s’ chemical foods!!! (But then I would wouldn’t I?)

Barney

Barney can you give some evidence? If not, your second paragraph is just nonsense. How big and fit were your parents and their friends? Mine were small and unfit and died in their forties, and I still miss them forty years later.

Alan

[Jenny Green]

I thought chemical farming was brought in during and after WW2? Correct me if I'm wrong.

Found this:
The necessity of such schemes was highlighted at the end of the First World War, when the Report of the Ministry of National Service declared that only one man in three of the two-and-a-half million servicemen examined was completely fit for military service

here
http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/ ... rpact.html

Can't find anything about WWII fitness for service though.

[PAULW]

National Growmore chemical fertiliser well advertised in the dig for victory information sheet during the war.

[peter]

No chemist me, but could you make your own from chalk and heat?

Or have I got the wrong one?

[Cider Boys]

Alan

Please forgive me; my second paragraph was not intended to be taken seriously. I’m not advocating anyone should brush their teeth in creosote either, all I ever originally asked was, what realistic dangers are there in using previously creosote treated wood as a raised bed border.

Barney