The importance of 'Organic'

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Just noticed that one Dim, nice one The Growth inhibitors they use over here persist into the second generation. The garlic I re planted after last years pathetic sized ones have still come up tiny:DOH:

Getting organic blubs this autumn

 

Hi Ziggy.

Just a thought. If one buys Garlic (meant for planting) that had growth inhibitor applied, wouldn't that stop it growing in the first place? BTW, I bought some bulbs from the Garlic Farm (Solent Wight) a few years back, and my first crop were REALLY good. However, subsequent crops using the offspring, were pretty useless. Maybe the past couple of years haven't been ideal for growing Garlic? Dunno.....

Cheers...Freddy.

 

I found that with the garlic also Freddy, made me wonder whether the bulbs were actually "f1" which would explain the poor performance this year.

 

Ok if you can afford to pay the extra when it comes to buying "organic produce".
I think its mostly overpriced due to the very strict regulations regarding organic growing.

Personally I think we need something in the middle, eg. grown using maybe artificial fertilizers but with the minimum of chemicals sprayed.

I know, I know, difficult to regulate, but we do seem to have both ends of the scale and no middle ground.

 

there are 3 products that I always buy organic only and dont mind paying a bit extra....

milk
free range organic eggs
butter


if you check the sell by dates on the milk, you will always find that the organic milk has a longer shelf life

funnily, I don't check the cheese and buy whatever is cheap or what I fancy...

as for chicken, I would love organic free range, but end up buying corn fed that is not organic but is 2nd best (a decents sized free range organic chicken costs nearly a tenner vs £4)

other to that, I would love to buy all organic veg/meat, but seldom do, due to the prices ....

however, many organic vegetables/fruit do not sell well at supermarkets such as Tesco in my area, so if you browse in the fridges that have the reduced items, you will find organic bargains (I'm always skint, so browse there first)

:o

 

I would never buy battery eggs, but I'm not sure you can actually trust some of the other kinds.
Free range seems a bit open to abuse these days.

 

Thats an interesting thought Freddy. I used to grow Garlic for sale, upto 5000 blubs at a time, I used to get a percentage of small ones each year but not the whole crop.

The Elephant Garlic, which was grown in the same bed as the rest of it, has done fantastic. They were from certified cloves from the nursery.

I'm saving one blub for next seasons planting, i'll see how that grows & let you know.

I would never buy battery eggs either.