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I’ve gardened organically for, forever. Not because I want to save the earth, but because I’m CHEAP and the old ways ARE the best ways for the avereage home garden. It does NOT always work on a massive scale when you are a business and must honor your bottom line during times of grasshopper invastion and tomato blight!

I totally respected her Grandpa Robert Rodale. She’s just a shill using scare tactics to sell magazines and books.

Organic Gardening magazine these days sucks. It is completely dumbed-down for the average to advanced gardener, and just filled with LefTard feel-good and alarmist propaganda from page one.

Mike McGrath was an awesome editor from yesteryear; Maria sucks.

My garden also is mostly organic but I lose a lot of plants to bugs and disease but I’m not too worried, I can always go to the store.

OTH, we are farmers. There are many diseases and fungi that can kill people but most of all destroy crops. Without the chemicals we have access to many people would be starving.

If people were dropping off right and left, I’d certainly suspect food but since we are living longer and healthier lives and it has happened with the advent of the science of chemicals, agricultural and medical, I would think just the opposite.

On the small penis problem, I wonder how many years we’ve kept records on penis size, LOL. Are we even sure that they are small penises? Maybe the majority are growing large penises and so those that stayed the same appear small in comparison? Did she do penis research. Did she take pictures or plaster casts or maybe just trace them.
Did she measure them when they were flaccid or turgid?

Okay, enough but you could have a field day with just that “symptom”.

I do worry about the chemicals on things I eat directly. I’ve learned to garden without them and don’t have a majority of pest problems. I’ve gotten so efficient at gardening the old way I can and have sold at a profit, especially at today’s prices.

The other thing is that the store varieties suck in flavor and nutrition. I know plenty of old heirlooms that produce well and are superior in quality in every category.

Nutritionally, you get out what you put in. Poor soil yields poor quality, nutritionally worthless produce.

I’ve gardened organically for, forever. Not because I want to save the earth, but because I’m CHEAP and the old ways ARE the best ways for the average home garden. It does NOT always work on a massive scale when you are a business and must honor your bottom line during times of grasshopper invasion and tomato blight!

Agree completely. And after years of organic gardening in the same spot of my yard, I'm going to have to fertilize or next year's crop is going to suck. I can tell the difference between this year and the year before. So I either have to plant a legume like soybeans for a year or I can put fertilizer and top soil and move the corn to a different spot next year. That's what I will probably choose.