Re: [CH] That Fishy Smell

Doug Irvine (dougandmarie@shaw.ca)
Sun, 21 May 2006 15:12:41 -0700 

Hey Matt....are ya sure you aint got Jimmy Hoffa?    :-D  :-D !! Doug in BC

Matt Evans wrote:

> Elise --
>
> Scary observation....I hadn't really thought about it.  I doubt there
> are any dead animals buried there, however.  The area was wooded and
> largely unpopulated prior to construction of the neighborhood and I
> tilled a good 8 inches deep with no indications of disturbed earth.
>
> Maybe I am fooling myself, but the smell started almost immediately
> after a lime and fertilizer application and abated after several days
> -- this leads me to believe that perhaps it was a combination of
> nitrogen fertilizer and pH modification that caused the smell.
>
> Matt
>
> On 5/21/06, Elise Lutrick <eliselutrick@usa.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>  It's been nearly 30 years since I took organic chemistry and physical
>> chemistry in college so I don't remember a lot, but I do seem to 
>> recall that
>> some compounds that have a fishy odor are not really nice compounds. 
>> I think
>> most of them are amines, and some of them are very bad stuff. If I had a
>> garden in a spot that smelled that way, I would want to ascertain the 
>> reason
>> for the smell before I ate anything growing there. For the smell to 
>> be as
>> pronounced as you are describing, there would have to be a good bit of
>> whatever it is present. It could be that somebody dumped some 
>> containers of
>> nasties there to dispose of them. Also, this question: Any chance 
>> there are
>> animals were buried in that spot?
>>
>> Elise
>>
>> ------ Original Message ------
>> Received: Sun, 21 May 2006 01:24:24 PM CDT
>> From: "jim" <jim@mail.wildpepper.com>
>> To: Cameron Begg <PheasantPlucker@columbus.rr.com>, jim@wildpepper.com,
>> chile-heads@globalgarden.com
>> Subject: Re: [CH] That Fishy Smell
>>
>> > Well now... triethylamine.  An amine.  That puts it back to 
>> nitrogen again.
>>
>> >
>> > I guess I need to smell some more dead fish :-)
>> >
>> > That would seem to be your answer Matt.
>> >
>> > -Jim C
>> > Mild to Wild(R)
>> > http://www.StepUpForCharity.org
>> >
>> >
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