March 14, 2017 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
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Bonnie Plants not available in Canada for 2017
Looks like Canadian gardeners will not be able to buy Bonnie Seedlings in 2017. See Bonnie Plants email below:
Tom Hughes (Bonnie Plants Help Desk) |
March 14, 2017 | #2 |
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Good. Buy local and without neonic pesticides
KarenO Last edited by KarenO; March 14, 2017 at 02:17 PM. |
March 14, 2017 | #3 |
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Yup! I refused to buy ANY perennials last year, and the local guy who grows organically only has veggies and annuals.
I found it sad that the powers that be here were in no hurry to ban neonic pesticides! Linda |
March 14, 2017 | #4 |
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Box store toxic sprayed awfulness. The reason is that health Canada is banning the use of a neonic pesticide harmful in many ways and specifically banned due to harm in aquatic environments. Note the letter doesn't mention why.
Can't imagine why anyone would want them except they are cheap. I suppose the good news is that if they wish to sell their plants in Canada, at least those plants can't be sprayed with the banned pesticides. No matter to me, I won't support them and their blighty tomatoes regardless. Box store plants are generally the source of any late blight outbreaks in northern regions. where the disease doesn't winter it is imported in diseased plants. A huge and destructive outbreak in the US northeast 2009 was traced back to a single strain from Bonnie plants in Alabama. Yet they retain the big box wallmart Home Depot etc monopoly. KarenO Last edited by KarenO; March 14, 2017 at 02:51 PM. |
March 14, 2017 | #5 |
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March 14, 2017 | #6 |
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Neonic pesticides kill bees. I've done a little research on it in the past, and did not like what I read.
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March 14, 2017 | #7 |
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Under contract to growers all over I'm sure but using their brand and their methods. They will be back clearly but they will need to make changes to comply with the new pesticide bans if they wish to sell here. Meantime, I hope that local growers will get the business usually undercut by a giant monopoly.
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http://environmentaldefence.ca/2017/...banned-canada/ |
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March 14, 2017 | #9 |
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Not just Ontario. And it's about darn time.
KarenO |
March 14, 2017 | #10 |
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I've noticed in the last year an increase in bees and butterflies in our city.
I wonder if it's because of the increase in community gardens in the city and the ban of harmful pesticides. http://hcgn.ca/about-us/ |
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March 16, 2017 | #12 |
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The distribution model for plants in big box stores is flawed on many levels. The stores consider the plants to be loss leaders, meant only to draw in shoppers who will also buy other items. The plants are sold on consignment, meaning the store has no incentive to keep them alive or healthy. Employees often don't even know to bring them inside on freezing nights. And the idea of any of them being capable of spotting a diseased plant is laughable at best. The mistreatment that the Bonnie plants get while at the store makes any disease problems become much worse.
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March 17, 2017 | #13 |
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Bonnie's tomatoes and peppers show up in box stores here in February. Our last frost date is April 29th, but our weather is highly variable. It has been sooo hard to educate people on the proper time to plant anything. When the plants sulk and whither after a week of 33F nights they think they can't grow plants and give up. So frustrating. I have many other issues with the way these plants are grown, but I'll save it.
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