I have been gardening this block for 5 years, not an enormous time, but I don’t use animal products to fertilise I just use compost/mulching/weed tea/and cover crops.
Everything seems fine. Yet every gardening show or whatever will be like “slather that manure and blood and bone on each year, use fish emulsion, fucking sacrifice your firstborn on that shit”. Am I an idiot or do you just not need to do any of that?
edit: not looking for the peanut gallery. Interested in opinions from people who don’t use animal products and what their experience has been.
Thanks for giving me a thorough answer! I appreciate you taking the time to lay it all out for me.
No worries. We have a reputation on lemmy for being insane zealots that hate you all but we’re really just trying to find a way to live that makes consent and respect the core of it all.
Feel free to ask questions in good faith, nobody is going to bite your head off.
That’s cool! Yeah I don’t know much about all that, I was just browsing all and didn’t notice it was a different instance. Most of my friends are vegans and I believe veganism is a necessary change for humanity to get to one day.
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