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I'm not an organic gardener but I haven't needed to use pesticides or inorganic fertilizer in years. My strategy is abundance, tolerance and biodiversity. I always plant enough flowers and veggies for a few pests to share and if they chew a few holes in a leaf or two I take comfort knowing I'm just fattening them up for my predatory friendly ones. If however I'm having a really bad day, I might nuke them with every chemical known to man and regret it in the morning. It's the farmer in me. When planting thousands of acres of mono-culture small grains as I have, it's how things are done or go broke. I'll be the first to admit the system is flawed and that subsidies fuel the beast. RScott