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To: yldstrk

Actually eating microbes with your food is very healthy! Check out about what is being found about gut health and its effect on immunity. BTW, in organic gardening the poop is always decomposed in compost with other plant matter and is NEVER applied fresh directly to the soil or plants.

The method of modern monoagriculture (growing only one species in large areas without domestic animals) and industrial fertilizers and herbicides sterilize the soil so that it destroys its structure and composition. Also growing large areas of one species of plant encourages the pests that prey on that plant to multiply in that location. Anyone who has done even the least bit of organic gardening knows the amazing changes that happen in their soil in its ability to retain moisture and grow healthy plants. Why do you think the DOA is recommending no-plowing techniques now where machines poke seeds into the ground rather than turning over the soil each crop? It has finally been recognized that deep plowing destroys the soil so it won’t grow anything, no matter how much fertilizer is put in it. No amount of disinformation will convince an organic gardener that his/her methods are not working. They see the positive results right before their eyes every year.

As for bugs in your garden, many of them are supposed to be there for the health of the plants! You always need to fight against the bad ones, but that is because we do not live in Eden anymore. While sometimes certain insecticides are necessary, I’ve found that choosing plant species carefully and inter-planting various plant families rather than grouping in classic rows is a far more effective method of controlling insect damage. My gardens have been organic for more than 10 years and I rarely use herbicides or insecticides. Not because I do not have pests or weeds, but because I’ve found other means to control them in my garden.

Again, I am not claiming that organic gardening is perfect, but organic gardening methods have proven themselves for centuries and they will be continued to be used until the government outlaws them.


56 posted on 04/05/2014 5:53:54 AM PDT by Madam Theophilus
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To: Madam Theophilus

Madam I wish I could come and observe your gardening for a season, I have never been able to grow squat


72 posted on 04/05/2014 6:23:17 AM PDT by yldstrk ( My heroes have always been cowboys)
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