Is Your Garden As Organic As It Could Be?

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Enter your name* This field is required.

first name

last name

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Where is your garden soil from? Choose one* This field is required.

Certified organic or OMRI label, topsoil, potting mix, soil mix, or compost

Not certified but identified as organic

Available soil from the ground

Other Medium (water, nutrient solution, fibers)

Commercial topsoil, potting mix, soil mix, or compost

Contaminated soil from the ground (oil spill, parking lot sweep)

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Where are most of your plants from?* This field is required.

Certified organic seeds or seedlings from a grower, nursery, or friend

Not certified but identified as organic from a grower, nursery, or friend

Wild harvested seeds or seedlings

Your own saved seeds or raised seedlings

Commercial seeds or seedlings from a grower, nursery, or friend

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What is your garden plants' nutrition and fertilizers like?* This field is required.

Certified organic or OMRI label fertilizer

Your own compost, earthworm castings, animal manure, or other non-synthetic, artificial fertilizer

Not organically certified, but identified as organic

Commercial compost, no organic claim

Commercial liquid or dry fertilizer

No added fertilizer

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Where is your garden's water from?* This field is required.

Rainwater

Stream or lake water

Well water

City (drinking) water

Agricultural water from a city/county

Grey water

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How do you primarily control pests and disease in your garden?* This field is required.

Mechanical controls (traps, netting, fencing, hand picking, repellents, barriers)

Biological control (insectaries or predatory insects)

Organic soaps, oils, clays, baits, herbs, spices, or other plants

Certified organic or OMRI labeled chemical, repellants, or barriers

Not certified, but identified as organic chemicals

Commercial artificial, synthetic insecticides, fungicides, and pesticides

Commercial baits or explosives

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What is your garden's container primarily made of?* This field is required.

No container; garden is in the ground

Clay/ceramic pots, concrete blocks, hay bales

Wood, painted or stained

Wood, not painted or stained or natural fabric

Synthetics: fabric or commercial containers (tires, plastic pots and boxes)

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How do you control weeds in your garden, primarily?* This field is required.

Cultivation (hoes, rakes, weeding by hand)

Physical barrier (styrofoam, plastic/synthetic, rubber mulch, row covers, tarping, solarizing, cardboard)

Organic physical barrier (wood chips, hay, straw, alfalfa leaves)

Certified organic or OMRI weed spray

Organic, but not certified weed spray

Commercial weed spray

None

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Move/rank the reasons why you want to garden organically, from most important (4) to least important (1)

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If you chose "Health" is important (reason 1 or 2), which health reasons for gardening are most important to you?

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totalscore

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Definitely Conventional

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Temporarily Transitional

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Totally Organic

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risk level

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risk level description