It will probably be fine. Ammonium nitrate isn’t really needed for a garden, at least not in concentrated blends, unless your soil is fucked. Shitloads of nitrogen just makes plants bigger, which isn’t something you normally want for most vegetables.
I don’t really have to worry about that. The closest ‘body of water’ to me is a swamp/bog that’s maybe a mile away. Runoff would have to run very far indeed to get to a body of water, and 99% of the way there would be through spruce and birch forests.
I know that the soil is pretty shallow; ledge is just a few feet down. (On the positive side, if you want to build a rock retaining wall, frost heave will give you lots of free rocks every year!) I haven’t checked soil quality yet. If I need fertilizer, it’s not going to be just ammonium nitrate, it’s also going to be potassium and phosphorus. And I need to work on my compost heap, maybe see about buying chicken or cow manure? (Or raise chickens…?)
But when I say ‘garden’, I mean several acres, not going from a 10x10 to 20x20. I also need to get a greenhouse in, because we have a very short season here otherwise.
It will probably be fine. Ammonium nitrate isn’t really needed for a garden, at least not in concentrated blends, unless your soil is fucked. Shitloads of nitrogen just makes plants bigger, which isn’t something you normally want for most vegetables.
It also gets into nearby bodies of water and makes super charged algae that suffocates every living thing in the water.
I don’t really have to worry about that. The closest ‘body of water’ to me is a swamp/bog that’s maybe a mile away. Runoff would have to run very far indeed to get to a body of water, and 99% of the way there would be through spruce and birch forests.
I know that the soil is pretty shallow; ledge is just a few feet down. (On the positive side, if you want to build a rock retaining wall, frost heave will give you lots of free rocks every year!) I haven’t checked soil quality yet. If I need fertilizer, it’s not going to be just ammonium nitrate, it’s also going to be potassium and phosphorus. And I need to work on my compost heap, maybe see about buying chicken or cow manure? (Or raise chickens…?)
But when I say ‘garden’, I mean several acres, not going from a 10x10 to 20x20. I also need to get a greenhouse in, because we have a very short season here otherwise.