Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

At 11:33 PM 9/12/2007, you wrote:
> I don't discount the obvious, but there are some things in this 
> article that I find to be problematic.  It could be just me, but I 
> figured that I'd see what others found.

I'm always concerned about breeding for a single, or a small number, 
of characteristics in a plant variety. Trying to increase the amount 
of lycopene in tomatoes, taken by itself, could well result in the 
loss of some other valuable nutrient. I think the emphasis needs to 
be on enriching the soil (which of course doesn't mean just throwing 
fertilizer at it). Then returning to open-pollinated varieties, which 
by definition are not best for high-yield factory farming.

Liz in SW VA
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