Stinging Nettle

Stinging Nettle
Making Peace

Sunday, July 28, 2013

ORGANICS AND HYPOCRITES

The other day I was doing battle with the second (there has been a third since) round with the squash bug eggs. I have grown 5 zucchinis and it was a task to look on and under every leaf and loosen the eggs and spray them away.  If I were an organic grower with 100 plants, this would be impossible to do.  Yet, if these eggs are allowed to hatch, the nymphs will kill the plant, leaf by leaf, as they suck the juices and dry the leaves out.  I  understand why controls that are not really good for the environment and, are questionable for our healthy, are used.  One cannot grow in volume, sanely, without some of these.  Pyrethrums persist in the environment and spinosad has residual that hurts beneficials. I don't know if rotenone is still allowed but I would not use it.  My conclusion?  Don't ask of someone else what you cannot or are not willing to do. If we want to tie up large areas of land in gas sucking areas called lawns, for no good reason other than blind adherence to a false norm, then don't complain when growers do what they must to provide us with food.  Either do it yourself or stop being hypocritical about the fact that you must eat.  We hoard land so wildlife and pollinators must look elsewhere for habitat and plants while we blindly destroy our own nest and then arrogantly demand growers give us something that is not possible.

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