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Interview with author Thomas Ogren


© Colleen Kaemmerer
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Nov 1, 2000


would inhale some of it. But really, who'd get the most smoke? You would! You're standing right next to me and I'm blowing it all over you. This is just like having a big, male, pollen-pumping tree right there in your own yard. Who gets the most pollen. Well, you do! That's kind of the whole point of allergy free gardening. I'm glad you brought that up, Colleen.

Colleen: In your book you mention the substantial increase of allergies over the years. Can you tell us more about that?

Tom: When I started on this research, the official rate of allergies among Americans, according to the figures from the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, was 12 percent. What is it today? In December of 1999 the ACAAI released figures showing that now 38 percent of Americans had allergies! Wow! That's a mighty big jump. This is happening all over the world except in places where they do not have modern landscapes. East Germany, with its poverty, pollution, and old-fashioned landscape plant materials, has low allergy rates. Right next door, West Germany, with modern landscapes, has allergy rates three times higher. Deaths from asthma are way up too. Not all that long ago deaths from asthma were rare. Now more than 7,000 people here are expected to die from it. They are calling it an epidemic of asthma. It is now actually the most common childhood chronic disease.

Next month, I will run part two of this interview, which covers the basic concepts of allergy free gardening, tips on how to know what to buy at your local garden center, and allergy free gardening success stories on the municipal level, plus more. Also, for further information, you can visit Thomas Ogren's website at http://www.allergyfree-gardening.com/

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9.   Nov 13, 2000 5:13 PM
In response to message posted by Little_Missy:

Little Missy, You ever notice how people act like everyone with allergies is a wimp? I ...

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8.   Nov 7, 2000 3:29 PM
In response to message posted by sbcokeman:

Dear SB, The pepper trees are an easy one and you have indeed been suspecting right. All o ...

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7.   Nov 7, 2000 5:44 AM
In response to message posted by sbcokeman:

Well, I'm not that knowledgeable about gardening in general, but I know that sometimes a ...

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6.   Nov 7, 2000 5:38 AM
In response to message posted by ColleenKaemm:

I forgot to add that some people also hose down their plants (with a nozzle, etc.) whe ...

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5.   Nov 6, 2000 1:47 PM
Hi, I live in Santa Barbara, Ca and I've got two pepper trees in my yard, one of them has red berries on it, and the other one doesn't. The one that doesn't have berries on it, is it because it's a m ...

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