I know this may sound like a stupid question but I have to ask it anyway. I'm a city gal. Born and raised. Now my grandpa had a farm in Northport Long Island. We used to go when I was 5. I have no idea what he did on this farm because I can't remember anything from that time.

So what happens if you want to grow your own vegetables, like lettuce, tomatoes, zucchini, squash, etc..

How come there is pesticide on everything that is NOT ORGANIC??

Where the hell do the bugs come from, that farmers have to spray everything?

I have seen movies where crop dusters are spraying pesticides over fields.

Isn't this stuff poison?? why the heck are cropdusters allowed to spray this?

See, I know this sounds stupid, but I have absolutely no knowledge of farming and I just thought that if someday, I have a planter in front of the house, that I might be able to grow basil, or rosemary, or SOMETHING.

My landlord grows grapes right underneath my back window. You should see the vines in the back yard, a big trellis (I think it's called a trellis?)

Hundreds of bunches of grapes grow all summer and then he cuts them down and gives us platters of the stuff. I have to be careful with grapes but I tasted them. OH MY GOD, sweeter than anything in the grocery store.

He also has big pots of stuff in the garden in the backyard. He grows everything. And he grows these 7 foot long zuchini things and he used to give me the squash flowers (except when he handed me them, they were full of bugs inside) and I screamed and ran away and he thought I was nuts but he laughed his head off.

Where the heck do all the bugs come from. Can't we just eradicate bugs??

Don't all gang up on me for asking this stupid question, but you guys are farmers, you know about nitrate in water, ,.....and I don't have a clue.

I just go to the produce stand and buy what's there. I would love to be able to grow stuff, but not if there are going to be bugs inside them. Yuck.