The enthusiasm with which new pesticides were recieved now seems naive‘In 10m homes throughout Britain this morning, householders will breakfast and then potter out into the garden,’ starts the Observer’s 4 July 1965 report on the contemporary gardening boom. It’s not a wholesome account of a simpler time, evoking your grandad’s sun-warmed raspberries or the delicate ephemeral scent of sweet peas; rather it’s the story of how gardening became a chemically enhanced big business.This uncomfortable hindsight read describes how science was taking the place of sweat and old-fashioned expertise (laughingly deemed ‘muck and mystery’ by horticultural chemists according to the… Source – Full Article The chemically enhanced gardening boom of 1965
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