You grow your own black cherry tomatoes from seed? Incidentally, my litter-composting days are over since I moved.
I now have a cute white-tailed yard bunny that was decapitating my pepper plants, so I sprayed bitter apple on the tender leaves (same stuff I use on houseplants to deter the cat from chewing the leaves). I also tried the same spray on the fragrant yellow roses, which are irresistible to Japanese beetles. Seems to worth in both applications. On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Rich Thomas via Mercedes < [email protected]> wrote: > I am a Mendelist > > --R > > > > > On 7/25/15 1:57 AM, Curly McLain via Mercedes wrote: > >> What's wrong with GMO food? Don't make me lump you in with the Global >>> Warming religion nut cases worshipping Gaia... >>> -- >>> Max Dillon >>> Charleston SC >>> '87 300TD >>> '95 E300 >>> >> >> As long as you don't group me with wacko the insane! Its all good. >> >> I don't understand what is wrong with GMO food myself. What I can tell >> you is that products made from GMO corn turn my insides out. This leads me >> to be skeptical of beef and pork and chicken and turkey fed GMO grain, and >> even venison here where most of their diet is gmo corn. >> >> Is it the Bt? could be, it is a poison bred into the plant. Is it >> something else? Could be. I started having trouble with corn products 30 >> years, which just about coincides with when the first Bt corn came out. I >> have no science. Just results of trial and error food elimination. >> >> What I have been able to figure out is that when I was a kid, all our >> food came from the farm, except sometimes bread. Then we started buying >> milk in place of milking a Hereford. and so it went until here we are >> now. Almost nothing is homegrown or farm fresh, or eaten in season. >> >> BTW, had the first helping of homegrown green beans tonight, along with a >> heritage black cherry tomato. Great real food! Had a nice crop of sugar >> pea pods this summer so far. Way better than cat poop jelly! >> >> So I am seeking out things to do with exotic grains that Monsanto has not >> heard of, and new types of those exotic seeds (grains) >> >> IMHO, it is a conservative approach. Conserve. Conservation. It is >> what we all do with our old MBs. Not a trendy term. The state conservation >> commissions set up to conserve natural resources, have become DNRs with >> the mission of dictating who gets to use natural resources. The socialist >> approach, not a conservation or conservative approach. >> >> Even andrew is a conservative at heart, as are all liberals. He does an >> excellent job conserving old MBs. >> >> When GMO is only accelerating the plant selection that has been done for >> eons, I don't have a problem with it. When GMO is grafting in bits of >> other organisms, we may run into trouble. Such may be the case with Bt >> grains. >> >> .02 ... >> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> >> >> > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
