Subject: Re: Spraying

From: [email-masked] (Melasoma)
Date: 17 Mar 1996 10:31:50 -0500

If you seem to be having an extraordinary problem with diseases and
insects, more than likely some important components of a more balanced
ecosystem are missing from your garden.  And they may be missing because
you have already sprayed and eliminated them. (Like maybe the tiny, nearly
invisible,  parastic wasps that control aphids).  Once you spray once, you
will have to spray again and again.  (See the The Pesticide Conspiracy
1980)  Maybe try to put back some missing pieces (like habitat for
predatory wasps, bats, birds) and recognize that mostly tolerable levels
of insect and disease may be the acceptable model... that is if you want
your garden to model nature rather than an unrealistic Eden.