Grow organic-disease control

New methods of cultivation that improve yields or that reduce losses from pests and diseases have been discovered, and these have been translated into gardening terms.

A great deal of research has also been directed at finding new methods of growing plants commercially. There is no doubt that much of the information that has come from this research has benefited the gardener, but it would be a mistake to fall into the trap of following the commercial grower automatically. Nowhere has the mimicry of the professional been more evident than in the field of pest and disease control.

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Just as soon as a new chemical has been produced for commercial use, so a slightly diluted version of the chemical appears in the garden shops and centers, accompanied by seductive claims that it has proved to be moree ffective than its competitors. You have to remember that your requirements are very different. The farmer or commercial grower is constantly on the lookout for higher yielding, larger, and therefore more profitable varieties of plants, while you are after fruit and vegetables with flavor, which are not contaminated with chemicals. In addition, he or she may have many acres of, for example, cabbages, that are infested with caterpillars, and so have no alternative but to spray them.

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If you have only one or two rows of cabbages, you do not need to cover them with chemicals. Instead, walk down the rows two or three evenings a week, pick off the offending creatures, and drop them into a jar of paraffin. Likewise, a few well-directed squirts of soapy water will wash any aphids off your couple of dozen rose bushes in next to no time. 

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