"paghat" wrote in message
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In article , "Marie Dodge"
wrote:

Alas, I don't have your income and you seem frustrated that not everyone
can
afford organic gardening.

Is you joshin'? It's too expensive to not have to buy lots of harmful
chemicals for the garden? Or do you mean you can't afford to waist money
on the rarely needed natural products (which tend to cost the same or less
than any other product for the same use) when you have to save funds for
lots of costly chemical swill?

I have no idea what you're talking about. I posted the prices of organic
products from the Co-Op store. What chemical swill are you talking about?
The Organic oils and Soaps? Pyrethrum? All those expensive products I
tried that didn't work?


On organically balanced garden with diverse plant species needs no
artificial soil ammendments and is less inclined to pest or disease
problems, incurring few costs.

In your fanatical dreams. Balanced gardens occur in Nature, not in a bean
patch or tomato patch. Pests will be attracted to any plant they use as food
or for reproduction, be that plant healthy or sickly. You need to do some
studying on crop pests. A sickly plant will succumb faster than a healthy
one. That's the only difference.

A garden that is out of balance (probably
from chemical use) will be more rather than less susceptible to return of
diseases and pests (for many reasons, such as the fact that harmful
insects bounce back more quickly than the beneficial insects pesticides
also eradicate), inducing the "need" for further purchases of costly
harmful chemicals.

And useless Organic pesticides that don't work. Agreed, that's why these
gardens were not sprayed with chemicals untill everything else had been
tried.


In short, organic gardening is gardening on the cheap! Non-organic methods
feed into themselves -- expense builds on expense.

LOL!!!! Those products are cheap? Now I know you're dreaming or have stock
in one of the Co's that produce this stuff! A measly 4 lb bag of Kelp Meal
was $17.99, say $18.00 or almost $130 to do my gardens. And that's just for
the Kelp Meal........ you must live in lala land or are very wealthy.


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