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good point nev, but i'm not sure if i agree when it comes down to chemicals you spray on the land. one viewpoint i've heard is that home gardeners using small amounts of pesticide occassionally isnt the same as big farms spraying by the bucketload. but i've seen the huge quantities of the stuff sold at B&Q etc, all of us collectively adds up to an awful lot of poison going into the groundwater. we get our water from a well, so anything my neighbours put on their land could end up directly in our water
luckily they dont use much, mainly because its too expensive.

there is also the angle of the efficiency of farming. modern agriculture uses more energy in the form of petrol than it produces. its crazy to grow veg in huge quantities on the other side of the world, with massive chemical input, and then transport it to shops, where people drive in their cars. as we here all know growing veg is relatively easy and fun. as Peak Oil starts to hit, more and more of us are going to have to do it. if we dont regard chemical fixes as REALLY the last resort for some VERY difficult areas, our environment will quickly become an even worse chemical soup than it is now. (i can taste the pollution when i come to uk cities, and uk tap water is undrinkable!)

and as i said, who here wants to financially support the likes of monsanto? (agent orange, bovine growth hormones, GM maize, to name a few of their crimes).

Wow! I wasn't expecting this number of replies.

Thank everyone - much of what you've discussed is what I said to those who told me to napalm the plot when I first got it but I'm on my own, have only had the plot a month and need to get things shifting so I feel it's something I have to do this once.

I specifically bought the generic version because B&Q aren't owned by Monsanto