Sick of Electric

As I travel through the internet, finding bits and pieces about gardening and so on, I am increasing getting sick to death of Electric. All of these gorgeous gardens are powered by electric. I'm really bothered by this, gardeners claiming to be organic and eco-friendly are running their gardens using a bloody fossil fuel!

Drip irrigation powered by a timer, attached to the mains water supply to grow organic vegetables  Just smack of self-righteous ironic arrogance.

Where is the reuse and recycle mentality that is the basic tenet of all vegetable gardeners? Buggered off when all this fancy shamancy electric crap came in. These people are simply lazy. Spouting on and on about how eco-friendly/green/organic/save the whales they are while using up to 10% MORE non-renewable materials. Just think, what does it take to make these systems? The plastic is made through a high polluting method, usually on the other side of the world so there is the fuel to run the big tankers that ship all these gizmo's half way around the world. Then there is more travel pollution to send them off to the various warehouses and shops.

Of course, there is the public fuel we put in the cars, these people have to travel to buy all of this crap, or they get someone else to deliver it to them.

Then we come back to the beginning of this little rant... how much does it cost to run one of these things? I'm guessing it isn't too expensive but the overall damage to the environment isn't going to be repaired by your well watered tomato plants and lettuce.

The only ray of sunshine I have found during my travels is a drip irrigation system for the very poor farmers, it uses a bucket. No timers, no water mains, no electric!

Heavens sake people... Get a watering can and a water-butt and get off your lazy ass!