What is the effect of the growth of mongo in organic fertilizer?

Question

What is the effect of the growth of mongo in organic fertilizer?

Answer 1

heavy metals

Answer 2

Organic fertilizer is a better product to use than chemical fertilizer, regardless of what is grown with it. In organic fertilizers from organic sources, as in nature, there are many molecules that are variants of the listed fertilizer product, as well as some important trace elements, unless the product has been so over-processed that it is essentially chemical in nature. When one buys bat guano or blood meal or chicken manure for the nitrogen in them, there is more than that available, not only in macro elements but micro-elements. But the thing that is available that doesn't make the label are all those strange quasi-nutrients and odd molecules that are the fingerprint of nature. If you took bat guano and processed it and cleaned it up to get ammonium nitrate from a natural source, though a few odd balls get threw, all of the benefit of organics is lost and all you get is an overpriced chemical.

If anything is grown in organic fertilizer (and processing should be as limited as possible), balanced with the macro-nutrients for that plant, the micro-nutrients will be there without fail. Those dozen minors, give or take, is what will make the difference between a good crop and an outstanding crop. Yes, you would probably save money getting your N, P, and K from chemicals and adding a mixed minor element amendment, but it isn't the same for the plant and the environment, the soil and water, are not being cared for as well as it could be.

Answer 3

It could contaminate it with heavy metals.

According to Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongo

Mongo could be:

"Metal objects salvaged from the trash by garbage collectors, sold to scrapyards"

If that is true then there could be things like batteries in the trash.  Batteries contain mercury and other heavy metals which would contaminate the organic fertilizer thus destroying one reason for organic foods; the attempt to avoid harmful ingredients added to the environment by pollution.

Answer 4

Mongo is a legume so it should add Nitrogen to the organic fertilizer mix.