Writing Assignment

     If your garden was threaten by bugs or other critters.  What would you do?  Chemicals are not always the answer.  Although pesticides, herbicides and fungicides may be designed to kill plant pests, they can be lethal to more than just plants.  It can harm butterflies, ladybugs and bees these insects help our gardens grow healthyand stay that way, harsh garden chemical can destroy chances for that. The trouble is that these chemicals have a toxic residue which can leak into groundwater, where as small plants, fish...........may be rural.  The Enviromental Protection Agency states that lawn pesticides contain carcinogens in large quantities, that causes birth defects, gene mutations, nervous system damage, liver and kidney damage.


1.What type of chemicals would be consider safe for the environment?
2.How often would can these  chemicals be used?

Zimmerman, Sacha.  2011,The Reader's Digest Association:  How to Grow 
     a Chemical-Free Garden.
www.rd.com/home/for-america-grow-a-chemical-free-garden.