Orange Eggplants and Currant Tomatoes Oh My: Are Exotic Vegetable Varieties Worth Growing?

Are you seduced by curvy Golden Crescent beans? By Purple Dragon carrots, cushion shaped orange eggplants or yard long Red Noodle beans

The "Other" Ingredients in Pesticide Formulations

Look at the label of any modern commercial pesticide or herbicide, and you’ll see an ingredient list of active and inactive (also known as “inert” or simply “other”) ingredients. For the purposes of pesticide labeling, “active” ingredients are those chemicals that directly attack the target pest, while inert ingredients are added to help improve the formulation in effectiveness, storage, and lifespan. For most pesticides, the inert ingredients can compose over 90% of the total volume or weight of the pesticide.