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**thesummerqueen** · October 19, 2012 at 5:41 am

Er, no, if you spent another second googling, you'd know that botany deals more with the science of plants specifically, while horticulture is more about the practical interaction of plants and humans. More later, I just woke up.

**The Grand Nudger** · (This post was last modified: October 19, 2012 at 9:44 am by The Grand Nudger.)

**thesummerqueen** · (This post was last modified: October 19, 2012 at 9:43 am by thesummerqueen.)

**The Grand Nudger** · (This post was last modified: October 19, 2012 at 9:54 am by The Grand Nudger.)

There is an absolute shitload of bad practice in the world, willy nilly spraying, that's a problem no matter what you happen to be spraying. That's why it's important to have an EPA certified trainer (like myself) impress upon anyone who plans on spraying anything the importance of proper application and record keeping. Failure to properly apply pesticides or herbicides -regardless of their marketing status (organic/conventional)-,and failure to record what you have done in accordance with EPA standards is costly, dangerous to crops, dangerous to the environment, dangerous to human beings, and illegal. Even if all you do is spray your lawn with commonly available herbicides, fungicides, pesticides and fertilizers you're supposed to be keeping very specific records of what you have done. The reasons for this are many, not the least of which is that having records of what has "gone into the ground" can be invaluable if a problem does arise. Without records like these we'd be scratching our heads like chimps wondering wtf happened.

**thesummerqueen** · October 19, 2012 at 9:56 am

Gee Rhythm, it's just plants and dirt...

**The Grand Nudger** · (This post was last modified: October 19, 2012 at 9:57 am by The Grand Nudger.)

I know right, how complicated could it be...hehehehe. Nothing makes me feel more intellectually inadequate than trying to manage plants and dirt.....lol

**thesummerqueen** · October 19, 2012 at 9:58 am

Burning bushes, dude. Burning bushes.

**The Grand Nudger** · October 19, 2012 at 10:01 am

Ah, almost forgot....as far as GMO's go...I'd be more concerned with Bt Corn (if I were in the business of being concerned by these sorts of things). The real irony here, is that Bt was the organic movements favorite son until some enterprising motherfucker found a way to bootstrap that process into the crops themselves.

**thesummerqueen** · October 19, 2012 at 10:15 am

On the GMO labeling issue, from xkcd -

The universal label.

[Image: the_universal_label.png]

**thesummerqueen** · October 19, 2012 at 12:28 pm

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