Poisons and Toxins in the Garden
Poisons kill! I suppose that's why you placed poison in your
garden in the first place. I'm not sure what it is you are
trying to kill? It could be you placed slug pellets to kill
the slugs and snails that are eating your imported prized
hybrid plants. But, of course, if you enjoy seeing birds and
hedgehogs in your garden then you are a hypocrite as they
eat slugs and snails and what do you think the poison will
do to them? The experts will argue they are selling hedgehog
friendly slug pellets, but did they ask the hedghogs? It is
a poison, moron! How can that possibly be friendly! Somehow
or other that poison is going to affect the hedgehog! Maybe
you will give the hedgehog a serious tummy ache that prevents
them from feeding? Could be the poison is in the mother's
milk and kills her young? Questions, questions... Far better
not to use toxic and damaging chemicals in the first place,
especially in the garden where that poison may come back and
bite you in the arse! Far better that you encourage birds
and hedgehogs into your garden to eat the slugs and snails
free from danger of poisoning. Also slow worms and small snakes
eat slugs and you can easily encourage these wonderful predators
into your garden by placing a piece of slate or a tin sheet
on a south facing slope as slow worms will gather under any
heat gathering object. Other things you can do is place an
up ended pot or half a grapefruit skin on te flower beds and
the slugs will gather underneath and it is easy to remove
them from your garden, but again I would encourage you not
to kill them. Wholesale murder of slugs and snails is, in
my view, tantamount to genocide. People commit genocide because
of a hatred for another race or they feel offended by another
cultures religion or beliefs and that is called ethnic cleansing.
A gardener who kills slugs and snails is killing indiscriminately
because they feel offended by another species eating habits
and, in my view, they are ethnically cleansing their garden.
That attitude offends me. According to your view of the world
I have every right to kill you.
Weed killers! A weed is simply an indigenous plants that
propagates easily. The definition for the word weed is a plant
growing where it shouldn't. The reason an indigenous plant
propagates easily is that it has evolved in an ecology nature
has decreed it perfect for and, of course, nature knows best.
For instance, if you kill a thistle you are killing a food
source for a beautiful bird like the Goldfinch. Grow thistles
and, on the other hand, you will attract Goldfinches. There
are many other examples and I encourage you to seek out the
reason nature has perfected a plant for a particular ecology
before you kill that plant. Besides, personally, I think,
if a "weed" could talk, it would stand up and object
to being called a weed. It might say, "I am a dandelion!"
or "I am a thistle!" or "I am a daisy!".
So I think we have to ask the question: is calling an indigenous
plant a "weed" racist? In my view, yes. So there.
You are welcome to email your arguments and I will consider
your opinion and maybe I'll publish your opinion here... :)
