Re: "Garden writers need to stop home gardeners from "using non organic icides....."

**C* S* <h*@cox.net>**

TC,

I am retired, but my advice is not to become a born again garden writer 
who advocates either extreme - 100% kill with inorganic chemicals or the 
use of only organic pest and disease controls.

Mixed habitats help avoid major disease and insect pressures compared to 
monocultures where a problem quickly spreads from plant to plant because 
of the same genotype. Providing excellent cultural conditions - soil, 
water, draining, and sun conditions, that are optimum for growing should 
provide plants that are not stressed and better able to withstand insect 
and diseases pressures.

Home gardeners can frequently inspect their plants and do spot control 
rather than spray the entire property. It helps to point out that some 
plants are VERY high maintenance and perhaps more disease and pest 
resistant plants are better choices.

It takes more research and effort to write a balanced piece, but the 
effort should payoff.

Good luck.

Claude Sweet
San Diego, CA

TC wrote:

>Ellen Spector Platt said:
>*
>"I've been thinking for some time about the conflict between what many of us
>believe about the dangers of pesticides and our willingness as GWA members
>to accept sponsorship by some manufactures who are part of the problem."*
>
>Therein lies the dilemma. What's the solution? I write for two weekly
>newspapers, a monthly piece in a magazine aimed at seniors, and a couple of
>articles per month for Dave's Garden (and other freelance work when I can
>find it). Is there a method, prim and proper, that I should be utilizing in
>my writing to let readers know "we've been duped?"
>
>TC Conner
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