CONVENTIONAL FARMING is the method that has been practiced in the United States since the United States began. The farmer clears the land by whatever means necessary, using whatever tools he has at his disposal. The farmer then plows the soil, to provide aeration and to break up the dirt so it can be seeded. After laying...
down the seed, some crops require irrigation, while others grow fine with the moisture provided naturally by rain. Periodically, during the growing process, the farmer may need to spray the fields with fertilizer, herbicides, fungicides and pesticides in order to facilitate the highest production quantities possible.
IN THE OLD DAYS, these fields would have been manually weeded by many field hands and alternative measures for insect control would have been utilzed. Today, GMO crops have been designed to grow and thrive in areas that have been sprayed with pre-emergent herbicides. The pre-emergent kills the weed seeds before they sprout while the crop seeds are able to sprout and grow without fighting for space and nutrients with the weeds. In the Image above, the field in the foreground is alfalfa and the field in the back has been sprayed for weeds and has yet to be seeded. It will have soybeans.
TRADITIONAL GARDENING employs these same techniques, only on a much smaller scale.
- Tilling/Plowing
- Pre-Emergent
- Planting
- Periodic Watering (as needed)
- Periodic Insecticide Use (as needed)
- Harvest Vegetables
- Wash throughly all Traditionally grown Veggies to remove herbicide and insectides from the outside.
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