Backyard Aquaponics
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Ordered some seeds and comfrey cuttings online. Also got 10 asparagus plants. And noticed the usual we don't post to WA. It listed some other states but WA is the one that I notice most often. Does anyone know why.

our Aquias and customs reg's are stringent.......

You guys have more bugs and germs....

We are a more pure and untainted form of Australia ........

Cane toads will still get over there.
And a lot of insects fly. Would be a pain to order plants and seeds online. You'd have to send them to someone in NSW and have them forward them on.

No no....

All my stuff go through the proper channels...into quarantine...for a while and then onward to me if it is desease free.

I would never like to poison my side of the country
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if you buy seeds on ebay Duff a lot will say except WA but we can by them from garden shops, it's a control thing, we don't want the eastern weed seeds over here that's only because we have enough of our own but you will notice 9 out of 10 the seeds that can't come here also can't go to Tassie

It's kind of funny that WA has quite strict quarantine rules regarding plants... yet, up to recently, had the most liberal regulations relating to fish...

still more liberal than most states with fish, I was surprised I got mussels through customs, but they had a passed sticker on them, yet Neil can't send me glass shrimp but found millions of shrimp in a natural lake here, I would be peed off with SA and QLD laws for instance on trout, the seed thing is annoying though, found some nice mini pumpkins and different tomato's on ebay, I think the big concern is hybrid plants and cross pollination, but will ask the guys from CALM when I see them

Funny how the same government agencies don't seem to have the same concerns about GM crops though...

Agreed, depends where the money is WA was against GM Canola until the Govt realized the east was going to kick our arse with yields and sales, i'm not a gm fan though rupe, be interesting to see what effects GM plants and animals will have in 30 years, if I make it that far, most people prefer chicken drumsticks so will we see chooks with 8 legs soon Octochooks The difference in modified produce is huge, we don't buy tomato's etc from the supermarket because they look crap and taste like nothing, we produce our own eggs now because the shop ones had shells so thin and the yolks ran more than the whites, we by free range chicken meat because it taste like.....chicken, why do they have to modify everything so it grows faster and produces more? we all need to go back to basics

And there speaks a guy who grows his vegies in rocks and fish excreta
wouldnt basics be leave em in the dirt and let the rain water em

Actually... GM crops haven't shown the promised yields at all... many don't even match current crops....

But they do sell a lot of "Roundup"....

well john still growing un moified produce at home, sort of basic, but what you said is what I mean, what we all need to do, mine is an advanced basic
Same same rupe, the chemical companies are actually producing the seed to be resistant to the chemicals they sell, in canola at least everyone had to have because it was available in NSW and they paid high prices for the high yielding, high oil content seed that survived the spray but hardly made the grade at the receival point, monsanto still made their money I bet

Most GM crops are "roundup ready".... that is ... many in fact wont germinate or grow properly... unless sprayed with "Roundup".... before, during and after...

Alhough I think it's actually claimed that they've been genetically modified to "withstand" the effect of Roundup when sprayed for weed control...

The absurd part is that "Roundup" itself has been found... to cause genetic modifications... including in humans..

Round up PRO Biactive has no warning on its labels at all... completely harmless, dish washing liquid and dishwasher tablets are more dangerous thank it. During a sprayers and spray conference i went to in the UK we were all invited to try a "taste".

Roundup ready is a very bad joke. When the plants are not in a paddock they are a weed that you have to spray with stronger stuff to kill. Roundup ready plants are already taking over roadsides.