Dangerous For The Environment

I am so disappointed. My garlic crop has got rust, again! It happened at around the same time last year, and despite rotating the crops, we’ve got it again. My initial thought was that I should pull out all the garlic before the rust spreads to the onions and leeks in the same bed. Then I thought, to hell with good intentions and organic gardening, I’ll be damned if I let these beautiful plants fall foul to this fungus. Off I went to a local garden centre. The manager told me that there wasn’t an organic fungicide that I could use and recommended Dithane 945. I bought it and took it home.

The symbol on the back of the packaging tells me that this product is dangerous for the environment. How can I even consider using it? I’m glad I have the receipt still, I’m going to return it tomorrow. Then I’ll go back down to the allotment, pull up the garlic and bring it home to hang up on the fence to dry in the sun. Small garlic is better than no garlic at all. No garlic is worth damaging the environment for.

Written by The Little Green House on June 28th, 2006 with 5 comments.
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