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  • From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] neem oil
  • Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:39:47 -0500

kate spinner wrote:
Seems like neem oil is being touted as a vegetable pest cure all. Does
anyone know whether this is true and whether is it used with any
success in organic agriculture?

It's been years (decades, actually) since I used neem oil. My biggest question about it at the time was how limited it was in its impact--whether non-target species would be knocked off as well.

I stopped being interested in neem (or rotenone, or pyrethrin, or any other "organic" way to kill insects as a way of dealing with competition for my crops) when I made the amazing discovery that I didn't have to kill *anybody* to harvest my crops--indeed, the solution to insect problems was: More insects!

The story is at
http://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Organic-Gardening-Beneficial-Insects.html

~Harvey

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Harvey in northern Virginia
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A person dependent on somebody else for everything from potatoes to opinions may
declare that he is a free man, and his government may issue a certificate granting him
his freedom, but he will not be free. He is that variety of specialist known as a
consumer, which means that he is the abject dependent of producers. How can he be free
if he can do nothing for himself? What is the First Amendment to him whose mouth is
stuck to the tit of the "affluent society"? ~Wendell Berry





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