Reply To: Re: Vermin and salad crops

[MrErus]

Charles, thank you so much for the reply.

Firstly, I’d like to thank you for sharing your vast experiences of No-Dig gardening, your YouTube video’s have been a pure delight to watch and a huge inspiration for me, I’m very much looking forward to getting your books now.

Could vermin pee get absorbed through the soil and into the plant via the roots? I’m just curious if roots had any type of in-built filtration to prevent the uptake of pathogens.
I wish I knew more about these mechanisms.

I was born in the late 70’s, I think modern life and its assault on all germs, antibacterial this and that has given me an OCD level obsession with germs, together with media pushing how disease ridden vermin are, is a bad combination, I think (well I know really) perhaps I need relax a bit more about it, but its difficult in the modern world.

Apologies for the waffle,

Many thanks,
Mark.