niceindian35 asked:


Organic pesticides, How to produse ,for my home grown Vegetables and some Banana trees, Papaya and weed killers

jbrandtc asked:


We have a Saturday Market nearby that offers home grown fruits and vegetables (organic, too), fresh breads, and many types of handmade crafts, soaps and baskets.

The Market is only available in summer, so we go as often as possible to enjoy the season. How about you?

Jessica asked:


Okay. I am doing a science project on different types of Organic and Conventional fruits and vegetables.

People say that people who eat Organic fruit get sick because the foods are not cleaned.

But the Conventional foods are grown in cow feces and pestisides.

I want to test this to see which has more germs.

Is this a good project for a science fair?

What kind of solution should I use to see which has more germs?

Should I swab it with a cue tip or should a put a piece of the food in some solution.

This is apart of agriculture right? I am trying to do this to go to State Convention for the FFA.

If you cannot answer all my questions but know one please answer.

Thanks!

Brandy asked:


Sludge in the Garden
by Mike Krumboltz
4 hours ago

1,816 Votes
New homes are full of questions and possibilities. What color to paint the walls? How to arrange the furniture? What to plant in the garden? The Obama family must have asked a lot of those same questions when they moved into the White House. However, the first lady’s dreams of growing an organic vegetable garden have been dragged down by a previous resident that refuses to leave: sludge.

Various sources within the Buzz are reporting that Michelle Obama’s organic garden has been besieged by icky goo in the ground. As a result, the veggies aren’t quite what the first lady had in mind. According to Daily Finance, the National Park Service tested the soil in the vegetable patch and found highly elevated levels of lead due to sewage used as fertilizer.

So the question is: Who to blame? While dumping sewage into the ground sounds like a crime worthy of Mr. Burns from The Simpsons, the actual perpetrators were none other than the Clintons.

abraham c asked:


I think they are aphids the bugs size resemble fruit flies but they jump. I live in California and i’m trying to grow some vegetables and they are all over the pots where i’m trying to grow them outside. they some of them are still seedlings but the bugs are living in the soil for some reason. I don’t like them, I want to get ride of them, does anyone know how to get ride of them the organic way if I can’t what can I use or do so my plants can grow and not be harmed by those bugs. thanks.

Bryan asked:


I have added compost and mulch in the spring to the garden. Do I still need to mulch, or is this the same thing? I have an existing garden and I add seeds and annuls to it as well. I am wondering if I should also fertilize it with Scotts or Miracle Grow, but I want to stay organic and I am confused about these fertilizers? I believe they are not organic. I am growing vegetables and flowers in the same bed and I would like to use the fertilizers on the flowers only as my vegetables are organic, but how can I fertilize one and not fertilize the other? Or is it best to stick to only compost and manure that is organic? Is it worth it to use the Miracle Grow or the Scotts, or should I not because it will mix in with the vegetables? Please help!

Will asked:


We planted a couple of trays of seeds for starts last week. All vegetables. Instead of using a straight seedling mix from the garden store, I mixed the seedling mix, plus some of our soil from the garden, plus (per the ratio he suggests) some of Steve Solomon’s complete organic fertilizer (from his book Growing Vegetables West of the Cascades). They are in flats, with clear lids, under fluorescent lamps with heat mats below the flats.

Almost immediately, a fine cobweb-ey looking stuff started covering the seed trays. In reading the Solomon book, I believe this is what is called damping-off disease/fungi? Solomon says that too much organic material in the soil can make this happen and your seeds can either not germinate at all or be stunted for life. Gah! Maybe my outdoor soil had a lot of nutrients, PLUS using the fertilizer was just too much?

So, the questions:

1) Is this what it is?
2) Should I start over?

I am wondering if I should wait and see what happens, but I don’t want all my seeds stunted for life and I wouldn’t know it! Gardening is not supposed to stress me out, is it?
Thanks!

Gaura asked:


I just moved to Val David , Quebec in the Laurentian Mountains. I realize that the mountains are probably not the best place to grow things but that is where i am , and I want to explore the possibilities of growing organic food.

d.f. asked:


I bought a tomato from the supermarket and it was surprisingly yummy. The label said it came from a farm called Eurofresh and found on their page that it’s grown hydroponically. Although it’s not organic they don’t use pesticides because everything is grown in a giant greenhouse. Do you think hydroponically grown produce is safe? As I understand it they use chemical solutions in water to feed the plants instead of the plants getting their nutrients from the soil. It seems like an unnatural way to grow food…

soccer_girl asked:


I am going to be making a pet treat to sell to pet stores. It is going to be made from organic materials only, all of them human quality and most grown in my garden (obviously not the meat, but all of the vegetables and fruit). So I want to know what you would like to be seeing in todays pet treats. I am making them for both cats and dogs. Please say anything you would like to see at all, even if you think it might sound stupid. I want to make a better treat for better, healthier pets.
Thanks.