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2025-26 Season Application

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2024 – 2025

Approved Materials

Greenhouse Management Team (GMT)

The Approved Materials List

The Community Garden @ Snellville is a “Sustainable” garden. While not quite totally organic, sustainable gardening means the practices used to produce abundant food without depleting the earth’s resources or polluting its environment. It follows the principles of nature to develop systems for raising crops and is self-sustaining. It uses earth friendly practices like improving the soil. It includes plants that support wildlife. A more in-depth description of sustainable gardening is available here at “What is Sustainable Gardening”.

The Community Garden @ Snellville Committee Members retain the right to add, remove and amend the approved materials on this list at any tme.

Connect with Wes Nettleton

770-279-9062
P.O. Box 669,
Snellville, GA 30078

COMPOSTING

Aquatic Weeds

Coffee Grounds

Evergreen Needles

Garden Waste

Leaves

Grass Clippings

Sawdust

Straw

Wood Ash

Small Woods Chips

Bread

Egg Shells

Fruit

Fruit Peels

Tea Leaves

Raw Vegetables

MULCHES

Natural (non-dyed) mulches only

TOPSOIL

Natural Topsoil

Bagged Topsoil (not fortified)

FERTILIZERS

Alfalfa Meal

Blood Meal

Bone Meal (steamed)

Brewers Grain (wet)

Castor Pomace

Cocoa Shell Meal

Coffee Grounds (dry)

Colloidal Phosphate

Compost (not fortified)

Corn Gluten Meal

Cottonseed Meal (dry)

Eggshells

Feather Meal

Fish Meal

Fish Emulsion

Fish Powder (dry)

Grape Pomace

Granite Dust

Greensand

Green Manure (cover crop grown
and turned under for fertilizer)

Guano (bat)

Guano (peru)

Hoof/Horn Meal

Kelp (micronutrient)

Manure (well decomposed)

Broiler (poultry) Litter

Cattle

Horse

Llama

Sheep/Goat

Swine

Manure (dry)

Cricket

Dairy

Rabbit

Marl

Mushroom

Rock Phosphate (colloidal)

Soap Phosphate

Sulfate of Potash Magnesium

Soybean Meal

Volcanic Ash or Volcanic Turf

Wood Ashes

 

 

 

 

 

INSECT & DISEASE CONTROL

Pesticide users are required by law to comply with all the instructions and directions for use in pesticide label. First, “READ THE LABEL

Azadirachin

Bacillus Thuringiensis (B.t.)

B.t. var berliner (infects catepillars & beetle larve)

B.t. var san diego (infects beetle larve)

B.t. var israelensis (infects fly larve, including mosquitos)

B.t. var tenebrionis (infects Colorado potato beetle and elm leaf beetle larve)

B. popillac and B lentimorbus (infects Japanese beetle grubs in the soil)

 Benefical Insects

Bleach (4ml/L,ppm)

Bordeauz Mix

Chitin

Companion Plants

Copper (toxic to fish)

Cryolite (toxic to fish)

Diatomaccous Earth

Growth Regulators

Hand Picking

Horticulture Oils

Hydrogen Peroxide-based Products

Insecticideal Soaps

Iron Phosphate, Diatomatious Earth (for slogs and snails)

Neem

Nicotine

Organic Ethyl Alcohol

Organic Vinegar

Oxidate

Garlic. Onion, Oil & Pepper sprays

Sulfur

Lime and Lime-sulfur

d-Limonere

Peroxyacctic acid (80 ppm in the wash water. A post-treatment wash with clean water is required) 

Pheromones

Pyrethrum

Pyrethrins

Rotenone

Row Covers

Ryania

Sabadilla

Streptomycin & Terramycin

Traps (beer, pheromone, sticky, water, food)