If you use any Chemicals or Synthetics on or around your garden or fruit trees, not only are they toxic they are also expensive, therefore you are wasting your time and money. It would be cheaper and less work for yourself to buy off the shelf.
Many artificially produced fertilisers contain the three elements - Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium and little else. Plants that are fed on only artificial fertilizer grow well, look good, but have very little taste. These plants will produce more nitrites and less vitamin C. Nitrites are known to be carcinogenic to humans and animals. Vitamin C neutralises nitrites in the human body. Farmers that only grow the same crop over and over, all year round, such as tomatoes, have depleted the soil through lack of crop rotation, eroded the top soil and lost organic matter. They are committed to use artificial fertilisers and chemical sprays. Their environment is dead, 100% artificial. (in the USA tomatoes are up to 70% deficient in vitamin C.
Poisons damage natural predators (spiders, birds, fish, animals), pollute the water ways and the air we breathe, damage human health. Plants feed through their leaves and roots. One way or another they take up the chemical residues, and you, the consumer are eating these plants and chemicals. If you use Chemicals and Artificial Fertilisers in your garden there will not be any life in the soil, no earthworms or micro - organisms, which naturally produce nutrients needed to feed your plants. (and do all the turning of the soil needed)
There are many good books and publications on organic growing. Your public library will have most of these on their shelves. Avail yourself of them. (If you think that doing it "on your own" is difficult and you are discouraged join a Organic Gardening Club. They have an excellent library, a non hybrid seed bank, a plant information and advice service, monthly meetings with speakers covering a wide range of topics, field days, a shop which stocks all the basic fertilisers etc. at reduced prices and more.) |
