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 Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:52 pm
I'm new to the organics thing, but I want to try to eat more of it. I know the growing season is over, but in planning for next year...
Last year I saw a display at the store of organic seeds. Now, from my understanding, organics don't have pesticides and artificial add ins and stuff. So I thought just growing them in your own garden made them organic. What's different about organic seeds than normal ones?
(And this coming year I will remember not to put the sunflowers in front of the poor veggies so they can get some light, too.... sweatdrop )
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Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:12 am
It's like you said, organic seeds are from plants that are grown free of pesticides and other chemicals, they also tend to be heirloom varieties and non-GMO seeds. The seed comes from the plant. Typically, when you save seed you try to save it from the plants that are the healthiest and produce good food, that way the seeds you plant next year will be more likely to have those qualities. So it's not just how you grow your food but where that food comes from that's important.
It's also a really big issue to fight the efforts of big-agri and resist the use of GMO seeds and foods.
Monsanto is the worst company, they promote their gmo seed as being more productive and disease resistant but often fail to fully disclose to farmers (many in less developed areas of the world) that these crops are totally dependent upon the fertilizers and and other chemicals that Monsanto manufactures.
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Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:17 pm
What onicoe said, and also some types of seeds are normally treated in chemicals etc before they're sold, so that may have something to do with it as well.
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