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13
2008
Feb
11
2008
Is it still considered organic gardening if you use poison traps for rats?
Oxnard Montalvo asked:
I have a very small patch of ground in which to garden–3×10′. I do everything organically–natural fertilizers, worms, no pesticides, etc. Last year I had rats so bad in my little spot in suburbia, I didn’t harvest a single tomato. They all got eaten. I tried Urine-Away, traps, (got two), and I am prepared to use poison traps this year. I know it affects the environment negatively, as the rats will die somewhere and the poison will leech into the earth. But if they don’t die and decompose in my garden, and the poison is kept to the trap, I don’t see how it affects my personal harvest. I’d just like to have one this year! I know this is not the ideal method, and I would prefer a more natural way, but nothing else has worked. I want them out of my garden, away from my kids, and certainly not in my house!
Allison
I have a very small patch of ground in which to garden–3×10′. I do everything organically–natural fertilizers, worms, no pesticides, etc. Last year I had rats so bad in my little spot in suburbia, I didn’t harvest a single tomato. They all got eaten. I tried Urine-Away, traps, (got two), and I am prepared to use poison traps this year. I know it affects the environment negatively, as the rats will die somewhere and the poison will leech into the earth. But if they don’t die and decompose in my garden, and the poison is kept to the trap, I don’t see how it affects my personal harvest. I’d just like to have one this year! I know this is not the ideal method, and I would prefer a more natural way, but nothing else has worked. I want them out of my garden, away from my kids, and certainly not in my house!
Allison
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11
2008
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