I dabble at growing vegetables. My tomatoes are healthy, but insects have attacked most of the fruit making them mostly inedible. They look OK as they hang there, but underneath the tricky little bugs have ruined them. I spray all the new fruit with a gentle insecticide Pyrethrum. The label advises that there should be a one-day withholding period before picking the fruit. I notice that a second ingredient is Piperonyl Butoxide which is nasty sounding stuff which was the main ingredient of fly sprays in the 1950s/60s.
It is hardly worth growing tomatoes, when at this time of year here, they sell for $5. per box.
There is no way that ‘organic’ and regular market garden tomatoes don’t get sprayed to keep the bugs off. They, of course, use organic insecticides and managed insect control....Oh Yea?
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