"Alan Gould" wrote t
I will willingly discuss and explain organic methods for anyone who
wants to know about it. They don't need to either like the system or
agree with it, but if they want to knock it, they would be able to do
that much better if they know something about it. Unfortunately it too
often goes back to deliberate mis-definitions of the words 'organic' and
'chemical' in the context of gardening, as Bob has just sadly shown.


How can one discuss sensibly with organic growers of veg who constantly talk
about working with nature when they fight nature just as much as any other
gardener, they dig, they cover the ground to smother it, they fertilise,
they weed, they stake, they water, they remove butterfly eggs and
caterpillars, they spray with plant extracts (chemicals) of unknown
strength, and worse, they make up the brew themselves so have little idea of
the chemical compounds involved and their effect on wildlife( sorry they
aren't chemicals are they, they must be magic then. Get real, some of our
best chemicals came from plants originally and some kill).

Work with nature indeed! They just fight to control it another way.

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Regards
Bob (who gardens with as little synthetic or otherwise chemicals as he can
get away with)
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London