May 2010

The Midseason Tomato Report

by bdunn on May 21, 2010

in Garden

While distractions dragged my attention elsewhere the past couple of weeks, the tomatoes were busy converting the fertile earth of a new garden into many inches of explosive growth. In eight weeks three of my five varieties rocketed from about 8 inches above the ground to 7 or 8 feet tall, spilling out of their [...]

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Living Better With Chemicals

by bdunn on May 4, 2010

in Big Ag, Nature

Sometimes I think Monsanto is like a big kid with a chemistry set. See? If you pour the white powder into the test tube and add four drops of this liquid, the whole thing smokes and turns red! Monsanto found that its researches could pull apart plant DNA strands like so many accordions, insert genetic [...]

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