Re: hosta-open DIGEST V1 #777

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>Chemicals are expensive.  A quart of Roundup concentrate, one of the 
>most common herbicides on the market costs about $60, and the cost of 
>many of the insecticides and fungicides commonly used by commercial 
>growers would make your hair curl.

If you buy Roundup in the 2.5 gal size it is about $100-110.  Of 
course, that is more then what the average backyard gardener needs.

A lot of the chemicals gardeners use are expensive not because they 
are expensive to manufacture, but rather because the EPA made all the 
chemical companies reregister all their chemicals and to go through a 
very expensive process.  It costs millions of dollars to register a 
chemical for use and someone has to pay that cost.  The environmental 
wackos in our society want to eliminate the use of all chemicals.  I 
doubt that will ever happen, but get someone like Gore in the 
Whitehouse and we may actually start down that path.  Yesterday it was 
tobacco, today it is firearms and tomorrow it will be garden and 
agriculture chemicals.

Unfortunately, we are not going back to the days of organic gardening 
and farming.  What we need is save chemicals that do a specific job.  
Unfortunately, these chemicals will be more and more expensive as it 
will take a lot of research to develop these chemicals.

Joe Halinar

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