posted by Cass on Mar 30
Well, spring has sprung here, and suddenly all my earthy friends are talking about gardens. You know, tomatoes and zucchini and watermelon and all those other easy to grow foods that I love…. it’s enough to make me think about doing some gardening of my own. As if I didn’t have enough to do, LOL. But fresh tomatoes to go in my awesome guacamole? Yummmmm! And, you know, if there had been batteries in my camera when I made that guacamole Saturday, I so would have written all about it. It was that good, people. Really.
Anyway, back to the gardening thing. Are you doing it? What are you planting? And how are you going to keep your garden pest free? Back in the day, when my grandparents gardened, they used something called Sevin Dust to keep the bugs out of the plants, and then, they washed the vegetables and we ate them, and no one thought much about it. Nowadays, though, I’m concerned about what my kids eat. Not that my folks weren’t, just that we are generally better educated about the dangers of traditional pesticides than they were, yk? So, I’m looking into using organic pest control if I plant a garden.
The claims for the organic pesticides look pretty good. For instance this
organic bug patrol kills over 40 insects. That’s pretty broad spectrum, if you ask me, not that I know a whole lot about bugs, but what I want to know is what it does to people. Specifically, what does it do to little people who follow along after me and will nibble stuff when my back is turned, despite warnings to the contrary? So, if you’ve used it, did it live up to it’s claims? And do you feel comfortable from a safety standpoint?
And while I am asking questions, here, I saw an upside down tomato growing thing in Walgreens the other day. Have you used one? Known someone who used one? Laughed at the very idea of one? I can’t decide which is appropriate on my own, so help me figure out what to do, wouldja? And could I use one for the zucchini? Cause if I plant anything, I will plant those two things. And watermelon. And now, I think I am about to start repeating myself, so it must be time to hush up and go cook!
