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Please post some opinions here. I am really trying to come to some decision as to what to do, and I am sure this is a question others may have.
Ok, so I get the reason why we should avoid, for almost any reason, the use of pesticides near our torts. But I am not sold on the idea of not using chemical fertilizers. I absolutely guarantee that just about everything all of us have eaten recently was grown with the use of chemical fertilizers. Even the original founder of Greenpeace has said that if the world went all "organic" millions more people would starve all over the world. Organic is far more expensive to do, WAY more work, not as efficient, produces far less, and it is still debatable if it is even better for the animals (us included) who eat it.
The chemical fertilizers I want to use would help me attain a fuller and greener lawn, and more robust edible plants for my slow moving yard buddies to eat. Most of it is in the pelleted type forms. After I apply it, the tiny pellets dissappear into the lawn, or I rake them into the soil for bedding plants, so the torts have almost no chance of eating it. (I seriously doubt my torts would eat it anyway.) I do not use "weed and feed" as that does have some poisonous chemicals.
What do you people think?
Looking forward to opinions....
Ok, so I get the reason why we should avoid, for almost any reason, the use of pesticides near our torts. But I am not sold on the idea of not using chemical fertilizers. I absolutely guarantee that just about everything all of us have eaten recently was grown with the use of chemical fertilizers. Even the original founder of Greenpeace has said that if the world went all "organic" millions more people would starve all over the world. Organic is far more expensive to do, WAY more work, not as efficient, produces far less, and it is still debatable if it is even better for the animals (us included) who eat it.
The chemical fertilizers I want to use would help me attain a fuller and greener lawn, and more robust edible plants for my slow moving yard buddies to eat. Most of it is in the pelleted type forms. After I apply it, the tiny pellets dissappear into the lawn, or I rake them into the soil for bedding plants, so the torts have almost no chance of eating it. (I seriously doubt my torts would eat it anyway.) I do not use "weed and feed" as that does have some poisonous chemicals.
What do you people think?
Looking forward to opinions....