Local Versus Big Box
Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009
ALBANY — An Alabama-based plant wholesaler linked to a destructive tomato blight that turned up in northern big-box retail stores has pulled its plants from New York and five other states. ”
this from http://archives.timesunion.com/mweb/wmsql.wm.request?oneimage&imageid=8291541
This is a very disturbing headline printed last week on the Albany Times Union. It goes back to your buy local dichotomy you have heard me expound upon too much! We need to simplify our buying for more than just supporting our local farmers, but to keep diseases out of our area. Some will bemoan this as “the big box has cheaper prices!” But the ultimate cost is the spread of diseases, the cost of treatment, and ultimately replacement, or with these tomatoes, the extra time spent pulling and replanting. An as you know, I push for using natives, and trying to make our local ecology healthy. Did I say that before? Sometimes the bottom line is more than just money.
pic by craigemorsels
Dot
I’m here snooping around Forginahead&trade for a few minutes before gadding around in search of last peaches of the season ? plus new apples. It looks like that tomato plant has blight or whatever. My Early Girl plants (4) had a few bad tomatoes but most were O.K. & very uniform in size as I like them-just the right size, ha. I’ll check on your gardening info later as it looks interesting. Dot Foss
Dot
Just keeping in touch. dot