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Information Number 13: What you see
and hear in the oftentimes deceptive and expensive mass-market advertising of
huge and highly profitable corporations notwithstanding, it takes a LOT (yes,
I'm shouting!) more than splashing some over-priced liquid chemical fertilizer
all over your lawn and garden - including directly on open flowers in the
bright sun - to be successful and have a really nice garden!
Corporate marketers would have you believe that their blue-water "plant
food" is the end-all and ultimate answer to gardening success. Don't
believe all of what you see on the TV!
While it's
obvious that I'm not a fan of high-nitrogen chemical fertilizers especially
in vegetable garden and perennial beds - what really gets my back
up are the (ad-nauseam) commercials depicting a clearly contrived
"garden" jam-packed with an impossible mixture of annuals and
perennials, being sprinkled with this blue-water, high-nitrogen,
powerful-chemical "food" in the full, bright sun. And all this in
the gardens of households where small
children and household pets would later romp and cavort in the now
contaminated grounds.
Come on!
First, if
all those gorgeous flowering plants were not still in their nursery containers
and then crowded together to simulate a garden, I would truly be
surprised!
Secondly,
any High School kid with an ounce of sense and a passing grade would tell
you that sprinkling chemicals on open flowers in the sun is very apt to at
least cause heavy water-spotting...if not serious scorching of all those
beautiful flowers.
And, if all
that deception isn't enough, any parent would (at least should) be
horrified at the thought of toddlers and the family puppy or kitten crawling
around near or under plants that had just been drenched with questionably-safe
chemicals.
It takes a
LOT more than blue colored chemical soup to be successful in the garden.
I don't
reward deceptive advertising with my hard-earned dollars... and I encourage
others to respond likewise.
That's my
considered opinion! I'd be willing to wager that profit-hungry corporate giants probably take an entirely
different view. They have stockholders to keep happy.
