The Lie of the "Green Revolution"

 Craig said:

This is an old tip that I've never had the occasion to test directly (but I
will comment more after):

Drive a small spade down in one or two spots  around one of your
plants and cut a few roots.  This might shock the plant into ripening
the tomatoes.

OK, this year one of the new varieties I was trying was not ripening any
tomatoes, not even a hint of color, even after all the others were doing
so.  It was so full of green tomatoes that the stake was leaning over
threatening to crash into the fence. (I have electric wires at the top so
this would have been a Bad Thing.)   I drove in a couple of small stakes
to tie off the larger one and stop the leaning.  And shortly after that, a
whole bunch of tomatoes on that plant started turning red.

 Now, I would think this was entirely coincidental, except for having
remembered that old advice.  So I may have unintentionally confirmed it
works.  Or, maybe not.  I doubt it would hurt to try.

--
Pat in Plymouth MI ('someplace.net' is comcast)
  
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(attributed to Don Marti)

 If Hillary is elected, she will put a Swami in as Secretary of
Agriculture ;)

 

More sock puppets? Don't think it'll  help. With all the money she is
dragging in, "Big Money" must either feel she is beatable or already in
their pocket.

The point though is diversity, not monocultures, and crop rotation, not
chemical fertilizers, and family farmers selling locally, will give us
the healthiest food, clean air, and clean water.  

Problem is that the Republicrats take money from them what's has an
agenda (making us poor and them rich). Campaign financing is the only
way to separate the politicians and the plutocrats. It has already been
pointed out, that in our dense stupidity, this is unlikely to happen,
and all that could be, won't.
--
FB - FFF

Billy

Get up, stand up, stand up for yor rights.
Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
- Bob Marley

 

Makes me think of a song......

"Tragedy
Now you tell me
Who you gonna get to do the dirty work
When all the slaves are free?"
       ~Joni Mitchell

For more on the work and activism of Vandana Shiva see this:

http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID �

A search of CounterCurrents will turn up articles on the suicides of
Indian farmers.

Excellant post, Billy.  More people need to be aware of the situation
in other parts of the world and look to the misery that has been
created in order to see our future.  Factory farming must be abandoned.

I spent the afternoon creating another compost heap...6x6x6...green
garden refuse and raked leaves and did the layering thing....inoculated
and watered and ready to start cookin'.  Looks like, after the leaves
all fall, and all the garden tailings are used, I should have as many
more this size as I want.

FFF - Fart For Fuel.  Oh, and FB!  And Monsanto.
Charlie

 

Spoken as a "Real American". Down with tyrants every where.
--
FB - FFF

Billy

Get up, stand up, stand up for yor rights.
Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
- Bob Marley