link not borked http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/06/18/137249264/organic-pesticides-not-an-oxymoron?utm_campaign=storyshare&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social

It just occurred to me that i rarely read the actual posted article on SE. I just go straight for the comments.
Says something about journalism and trust.
Says something about attention span.
Says something about peer consensus before actually committing to an opinion of my own.

I think your link is borked.

Fixed. Been a while since using this special system.

Anyone have the link for the website for the that old "ghost" radio station out west that plays nothing but classic rock b sides without commercials? There were a couple posts about it on old SE.

wax track radio?

My mom had a tomato plant come up in her compost pile this year that bore these amazing lemon yellow colored tomatoes without being staked or watered or anything. They had this amazing flavor, light and tart. I'm hoarding a few seeds for next year.

They might be an heirloom variety called Golden Jubilee. I always grow a few of them, and I haven't bought plants in years. I just chop up a few choice tomatoes once the first frost hits and plant them in a new bed. Same goes for cherry tomatoes and a few Roma types. We also do Cherokee Purples. We do get some odd hybrids now and then, but we either pull them or stick them over in the "experimental" bed.

Pretty sure these are some kind of hybrid, but I hope you're right. I'd love to get some more of them next year.

It's pretty easy to take some cuttings and keep them alive over winter. When in doubt, clone!

I've always found it amusing that the Bt in Bt corn that anti-GMO activists rail so hard against is a pesticide approved for use on organic crops. Almost as amusing as the idea that many consumers of organic foods don't realize that they use pesticides, too.

Bt actually refers to Bacillus thuringiensis which is the species of bacterium that the transplanted gene comes from. I'm guessing you mean that the pesticide it confers resistance to is one approved for organic farming?

Derp. I mean nevermind. Please ignore. Enjoy these bewbs. ( .) ( .)

I think you're mistakin... oooh, boobs. Cheerfully withdrawn.

i hate those boobs. The nipples are all borked. 2/10 would not bang.

Well guess what, those were modeled after my OWN nips and now I feel bad.

Bt modded plants produce the pesticidal toxin, doing the same thing the bacteria themselves do. Resistance is not involved. Roundup on the other hand is a herbicide, and roundup resistant plants have had the resistance gene spliced into their genomes.

I've been a fan of neem oil for years. It's one of the organic pesticides mentioned in the article. It interferes with the molting process in many insects, making it impossible for them to mature, and they die early. It works great for things like aphids and potato beetles, anything that lives on your plants from egg to adult. Works well on various scale insects, too.

Do you ever see the gray potato beetle juveniles that prefer to eat bull nettles? I always made a point of letting them live.

I'm only familiar with the red/brow juveniles and the yellow/orange/red striped adults. I don't spray indescriminately, only when I find the critters actually eating my plants.

>Neem oil is a vegetable oil pressed from the fruits and seeds of the neem (Azadirachta indica), an evergreen tree which is endemic to the Indian subcontinent

cool beans.

From Wiki..."Neem oil is not used for cooking purposes. In India" Just in case you were wondering.