Hello; I have a question. A friend of ours came to our camp on a bayou here in Louisiana. He raises organic vegetables as a hobby to sell at the local farmer's market. We have a problem here with giant salvinia growing in our water ways here in LA. My son usually rakes them up around our dock and piles them up. My friend asked me an interesting question. Could he get a load, break them up and spread them on his yard. We have a lot of nutrients in our water ways from all the fertilizer coming down the Mississippi River from farms up north. I believe the plants would absorb some of these nutrients. Would they absorb pollutants also at the same time, making them harmful to organic farming? Could they be collected in the Fall, shredded and spread on fields as organic fertilizer? I found where some people do this in African communities on the web, but nothing else. Retired and curious!
Hello; I have a question. A friend of ours came to our camp on a bayou here in Louisiana. He raises organic vegetables as a hobby to sell at the local farmer's market. We have a problem here with giant salvinia growing in our water ways here in LA. My son usually rakes them up around our dock and piles them up. My friend asked me an interesting question. Could he get a load, break them up and spread them on his yard. We have a lot of nutrients in our water ways from all the fertilizer coming down the Mississippi River from farms up north. I believe the plants would absorb some of these nutrients. Would they absorb pollutants also at the same time, making them harmful to organic farming? Could they be collected in the Fall, shredded and spread on fields as organic fertilizer? I found where some people do this in African communities on the web, but nothing else. Retired and curious!