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Soil sterilization...

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Posted by: iananderson02 at Sat Oct 22 11:59:42 2005   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by iananderson02 ]  
   

A while back there was a discussion on how hot/how long to bake soil or mulch to properly kill any bugs/microorganisims. I found this page, thought it might be helpful. I have always baked for 1 hour at 400F, this yielded about a 200-250F tempature of the actual dirt, seems this isnt adequate. I dont know what oven tempature/duration will work but check the link out if you like...

-ian

Oh yeah, do you think that perhaps the USDA method is overkill perhaps? I have usually had good results with 400F for 1 hour....
USDA soil streilization method...

   

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