Re: Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 24, Issue 44

**"Marge Talt" m*@hort.net**

Well, I'll bite Dan....totally unscientific response here....with the
'cides' you do not know what other inhabitants of the soil web are
being affected and I always assume some are as there are so many
microscopic critters about whom we know so little of their
interaction with chemicals; with the nematodes - if they are host
specific - you know they are only hitting their target...if they
don't find it, they die.  

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Dan Clost <dan.clost@sympatico.ca>
> Hi folks,
> Jeff L says...
> Don't fall for the idea that  there is anything right about
selectively 
> killing insects, fungi,  bacteria etc. with chemicals. When a
gardener does 
> this, he or she has  to do the job of the missing link(s) in the
soil 
> foodweb and doing so  not only is more work, but usually results in
use of 
> more icides with  more missing links and more work ad nuseum!
> 
> 
> Just a thought here, perhaps a bit of the metaphysical. (I'm not
looking at 
> it from a safety to humans and other organisms viewpoint.)
> What's the difference between selectively killing all the grubs, in
this 
> case Japanese Beetle, with an "icide" or a nematode? If we use a 
> non-chemical "icide" to manipulate our gardening environments
arern't we 
> acheiving the same results?
> 
> Dan
> 
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