Like many allotmenteers we think seriously about what we put on or in our soil. My guess is that many more of us buy so-called ‘green’ products on the basis of an ethical impulse rather than out of absolute conviction, and the manufacturers know this and exploit it. I could go on for ever about misleading labelling of so-called green sprays – you need a magnifying glass and a great deal of time to read the tiny print on a bottle of insecticide that deliberately fails to explain the difference between pyrethrum and pyrethroids with the consequence that customers are conned into using products that may compromise their organic produce. It’s probably not as much dangerous as thoroughly dishonest. Continue reading “Is it me that’s green?”
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