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		<title>Market &amp; Garden Report: Battling Bugs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guy Hand</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[HOST INTRO] What do you do when your garden is invaded by bugs?  If you’re an organic gardener, a plague of pests can test your convictions.  Do you patiently pick the bugs off, accept serious losses or pull out the big chemical guns? In this installment of the Market &#38; Garden Report correspondent Guy Hand visits an organic gardening class struggling to balance idealism with practicality when pests threaten to destroy their crops. (Hand) So what are these? (Clay) They’re black blister beetles. (Hand) Clay Erskine is showing me the pests that have invaded his organic gardening class garden. (Clay) And it looks like just in a five by five square food area there’s about maybe a thousand bugs. (Hand) These shiny black beetles have descended on the classes previously idyllic organic garden in horror movie numbers.  But rather than bring out chemical sprays, albeit organic ones, Erskine sees the infestation as a way to put fundamental organic gardening principals to the test. (Clay) That’s the philosophical idea of organics is that you just don’t knee-jerk spray no matter what.  Organics is more of trying the least invasive process of just monitoring, hand picking and make sure you’re following all [...]]]></description>
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