Who is Wintergreen Nursery?
Roderick: That’s Mike –or Nevin- -Smith. (There are too many Mike Smiths, so he had to use his middle name, Nevin.) He’s in Watsonville. He takes lots and lots of my excess plants. Then I can help myself more or less to anything I want down at his place. That way we get together once in awhile. Riess: Do you call yourself an organic gardener, if anyone were to bring that question up? Roderick: I try to be as near as possible, but if I get bad pests in, I’m going to use some kind of materials to control them. Your organic gardening is great, but when you do get a bad infestation of a pest you’ve got to do something to keep it from going from your place to the neighbor’s. I believe you’ve got to use common sense, with a lot of caution. Riess: Do you do things like bringing in ladybugs , or are you talking about chemicals? Roderick: Yes, you’ve got to use a little bit of chemicals. But if you use lots of humus to keep your plants well -growing you’re not going to get too many diseases. O
