It is stupid to spray poison around the food you will eat or on the soil in which that food is growing. It is stupid to spray poison on the lawn where it will be tracked into your house or your children will play in it. It is stupid to spray it on sidewalks or driveways where it will wash into streams to poison the life there. May the people who advertise that garbage as being benign rot in hell. I frankly don't know how they can sleep at night.
Records Now is the best time to start planning for next year's garden.
Not just because there is no time better than the present but because this year's successes and failures are fresh in your mind. Perhaps you will remember all of the thoughts you had while gardening this year when it comes time to draw up next year's plot, order seeds, start seedlings, fertilize, begin working the soil. I I have had a running disagreement with Harris Seeds over their use of fungicides. The fungicides they put on their seeds are unwelcome in my garden. I have written to them to express my desire that they make untreated seeds available.