Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Michael Nevin <mikepnevin@yahoo.ca>]

Hi - I do not know anything about this Barker TV fellow but I was struck by

your approach to the "war", as it were, with pests which reminded me of the Principles of a Just War. Would I be right in seeing some parallels

between a minimally offensive strategy against pests and the Christian Just War theory? For example, respond only after attack and damage, use a proportionate response only, war only as a last resort; minimize collateral damage or damage to non-offending parties, etc.,etc.

Any ideas? Cheers, Mike in Toronto

Catherine Fenner <c1fenner@comcast.net> wrote:

> I've been annoyed with Baker for decades. His programs used to be used on
> our public television pledge drives and people would get so excited about
> his tonics. The weekend after his shows were aired the master gardener
> phones would
>  ring off the hook hoping for more information about his
> philosophies.
>
> As university volunteers we could only respond with university research so
> it didn't help much. But I would try to bring IPM techniques into the
> picture and one of those principals that also exists in organic growing
> techniques is that you only treat when it's absolutely needed, only when
> damage has occurred at the right level and at the right time for the disease
> or bug cycle.
>
> Baker's basic flaw, to me then, is that he does this general, all-purpose
> spray now, spray tomorrow superficial and non-symptomatic approach.
>
> Catherine
>
> > Organic gardeners know that just because a substance comes 
> > from the kitchen pantry or bathroom medicine chest doesn't 
> > mean it's "organic" or even safe.
> > Several whom I know from another list recently began 
> > protesting to their public TV stations about Jerry's 
> > half-Baked ideas, pointing out that
>  re-using pesticide 
> > containers and modifying the label instructions are, at the 
> > very least, violations of federal regulations. The husband 
> > of one of them works for their local PBS station; whether 
> > this "campaign" will get JB off the air remains to be seen.
>
>
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