As the Eastern Shore Sanctuary blog reports, scientists have detected antibiotic residues in plants grown in fields fertilized with animal manure. So, yo, fellow gardeners: Unless you like your home-grown veggies seasoned with Sulfamethazine, skip that bagged manure-based “organic” fertilizer in favor of cruelty-free and earth friendly gardening techniques. See my previous posts here and [...]
Superweeds menace GMOs. That’s the word from the latest news reports of Amaranthus palmeri (aka pigweed) crowding out crops of genetically modified cotton and soybeans.
Here’s how it works: Farmers buy both herbicides and seeds of crops that have been genetically modified to survive those herbicides and are thereby — at least in theory — able [...]
Hmm… There, the government encourages people to replace lawns with fruits and vegs and everybody has a right to a garden allotment. Here, community garden allotments are rare and, in many municipalities, you can be fined for growing rambling, diverse, edible, drought-resistant, organic herbs and vegetables rather than tidy, mono-cultural, useless, water-sucking, chemical-fed grass. [...]
