Pests
and plant diseases are inevitable, so they say. Pests and plant
diseases spoil my early morning coffee - I walk around my garden
every morning, five-thirty to six, with a coffee mug in my hands.
So
far we are strictly organic, no chemicals, no pesticides, but a view
like one on the right shakes my organic principles.
True,
I don’t make living by gardening, I could proba- bly just share
the garden with other life forms. No way, says my selfish gardening
spirit and I’m about to start an arms race for the means of mass
pests distraction. There are organic alterna- tives to most garden
pesticides, like companion planting, I know. Maybe, if you can live
with the less effective means and the extra work.