Sunday, August 16, 2009

Sevin is Not Organic!

Why do people insist that they are doing organic garden and then say something like: "All I use is Sevin, you have to use something in the summer, and then I don't sell the produce after I use the Sevin.".....Cmon, people!! Sevin is dangerous! Organic Gardening or Organic Farming either IS or it ISN"T. It can't be part way.
Organic gardening means only using non-chemical means of pest control, which includes picking off, washing off, screening off insects.
Ask any bee keeper if they would use broad spectrum chemicals on their farms. What do you think the bees do when you are busily spreading your insect killing chemicals around? Think about it! Do you want pollinators, or do you want to have to go around to every plant with a feather to spread the polllen? In China, they have to hire people to do this, due to the wide-spread use of pesticides.
Please put up with a few bugs, keep your plants and soil well fed with sustainable practices, and save perhaps thousands of pollenators with your good practices. (No pollenators, no produce.)