Does it take longer to grow?

Question

I'm writing a speech, and I'm wondering if growing organic food, (with like NATURAL pesticides, herbicides, etc.), will take longer than growing foods that aren't organic, which use those harmful chemicals?

Please answer ASAP, thanks!

Answer 1

This is a big question to answer.  

If nutrients are still added, as in compost, they can grow just as fast.  The herbicides will reduce weeds, but weeding by hand will produce the same job in small veggie plots.  The pesticides will reduce pests to protect the crop but organic growers often use non-chemical pesticides or they do companion planting, this is where flowering plants are used to attract the pests instead.  So viable fast growing organic veggies can be found. A lot of non-organic fruits and veg are picked before they ripen. they are kept in carbon dioxide to stop them becoming ripe, when they are ready for the supermarket shelves they spray them with ethylene gas to ripen them quickly.

Answer 2

You might want to use a more reputable source than yahoo answers for your speech, there is a reason wikipedia is all but banned as a resource in scholarly works

Answer 3

Some pesticides induce growth too. So in that case the organic food would grow slower than the food treated with the chemicals.