Rather worrying when you ponder that what we feed our gardens can end up playing havoc with our body functions in more ways than one. Indeed, people are getting sick from eating mussels, due to algal blooms. An entire shellfish farm has been closed in Tasmania and the shellfish has had to be recalled.
Typically, these algal blooms are not just due to natural processes in the waterways, but are caused by man-made land-management factors. So that means that what we feed our gardens and agricultural crops ends up in the waterways (nutrients such as phosporus and nitrogen) and ends up in our rivers and potentially then ends up in our stomachs, depending on our diet, of course.
(I wrote a few blogs on this a while back, as these algal blooms have been happening all over Australia.)
So, let's remember to avoid over-feeding our gardens with fertilisers, as this gets in to the drains and ground-water and creates a chemical imbalance in our eco-systems at large.
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A blog by Nicolle Kuna
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I forgot to mention that fertilisers when overdone cause an abundance of weeds, too. Go easy (use organic products with lower nutrient content) and less weeding!
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