southerncomfort
Full Member
Posts: 29
Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:37 pm
Location: Georgia - Zone 7b

Organic all the way ?

Not trying to start any controversy at all !!!

Just curious if most on this site are 100% Organic Gardeners or do some use pesticides.

I 100% respect your choice .... just curious.

Thanks!

User avatar
applestar
Mod
Posts: 30514
Joined: Thu May 01, 2008 7:21 pm
Location: Zone 6, NJ (3/M)4/E ~ 10/M(11/B)

I believe some of us are and some of us aren't.

Organic cultivation questions and their merits are usually discussed in the Organic Gardening forum and sometimes in the Permaculture forum, and general vegetable cultivation issues are discussed here in the Vegetable Gardening forum. I believe there is a wider readership and participation in the Vegetables forum and general questions will get a better response in the Vegetable forum and can be adapted for either method.

southerncomfort
Full Member
Posts: 29
Joined: Sat Feb 18, 2012 6:37 pm
Location: Georgia - Zone 7b

That's clear enough ! Thanks!

User avatar
PunkRotten
Greener Thumb
Posts: 1989
Joined: Sat Apr 16, 2011 8:48 pm
Location: Monterey, CA.

I try to grow 100% organic but unknowingly it probably is not 100%. I don't use any chemical fertilizers or pesticides.

User avatar
rainbowgardener
Super Green Thumb
Posts: 25279
Joined: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:04 pm
Location: TN/GA 7b

I'm 90-some percent organic-- totally organic except for starting my seeds in Miracle Grow potting soil. But definitely there are well-respected gardeners around here who are not organic.
Last edited by rainbowgardener on Tue Feb 21, 2012 6:45 am, edited 1 time in total.

cynthia_h
Super Green Thumb
Posts: 7500
Joined: Tue May 06, 2008 7:02 pm
Location: El Cerrito, CA

I originally went organic because of necessity--my own!--and am now organic b/c of choice. (The story, in excruciating detail, is somewhere around here. Just do a search with cynthia_h as the author and maybe key words migraine and organic.)

Cynthia H.
Sunset Zone 17, USDA Zone 9

sixshooter
Senior Member
Posts: 110
Joined: Sat Aug 02, 2008 2:00 pm
Location: Davison Mi

I try to be as natural as possible. I tend to not use the word organic when describing my garden because it just seems snobish. I agree its the best practice, but are the coffee grounds I put it my compost organic? No. If my tomatoes get ill will I try everything I can to remedy them? Oh hell yes.

User avatar
!potatoes!
Greener Thumb
Posts: 1938
Joined: Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:13 pm
Location: wnc - zones 6/7 line

totally organic here, for a number of reasons, including money and laziness.

stryper
Full Member
Posts: 44
Joined: Tue Feb 07, 2012 4:03 pm
Location: Belleville, IL

!potatoes! wrote:totally organic here, for a number of reasons, including money and laziness.
Bolded is not usually what I have hears associated with Organic. :D

treehopper
Senior Member
Posts: 103
Joined: Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:43 pm
Location: Southeast MI

I wanted to go organic once...then the bugs came.

User avatar
rainbowgardener
Super Green Thumb
Posts: 25279
Joined: Sun Feb 15, 2009 6:04 pm
Location: TN/GA 7b

Plenty of organic ways to deal with bugs!

I call myself a lazy gardener. I do think once you get it going, natural gardening can be low fuss. I don't buy or use all those fertilizers, pesticides etc. I see some gardeners schedule for spraying things, fertilizing things, etc etc and it all seems like way too much work!

User avatar
soil
Greener Thumb
Posts: 1855
Joined: Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:40 pm
Location: N. California

Some people say I grow organic, others say I practice permaculture. I just like to say I grow good food, simple as that. Though my standards of farming are considered beyond organic.

User avatar
!potatoes!
Greener Thumb
Posts: 1938
Joined: Tue Apr 14, 2009 2:13 pm
Location: wnc - zones 6/7 line

stryper wrote:
!potatoes! wrote:totally organic here, for a number of reasons, including money and laziness.
Bolded is not usually what I have hears associated with Organic. :D
like soil, it's actually a ways past organic. there's really little input/labor needed if you've got a system where different elements help each other, and diversity (especially of predators) is encouraged.

User avatar
Royiah
Senior Member
Posts: 207
Joined: Thu Jan 12, 2012 4:36 pm
Location: Louisiana

I try to be as organic as possible becuase I like the idea of eating something that hasnt been covered in cemicals.
But I do admit We use bug and ant spray in our yard. Mostly for fleas and ants becuase one of our dogs are alergic to fleas and the others attack the ant piles. That and we usally get overridden with ants. :evil: (Big problem where I am.)



Return to “Vegetable Gardening Forum”