Shoked!! :shock: an a apple a day :?:
10-05-2011, 09:23 AM
#42
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Wauconda, IL
Posts: 972
Just because something is organic doesn't mean that it isn't dirty. Remeber, manure and other waste is used to fertilize in some countries. You need to wash your fruits and vegetables (when I lived in China, I would wash with dish soap)
10-05-2011, 10:02 AM
#43
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Barnesville GA
Posts: 3,181
I buy from farmers markets, local grown ,no pesticides whenever possible. Other than that its wash a lot.
I use cow manure when I plant and other than that no fertilizer or pesticides on my plants. My peppers and tomatoes are just fine.As were the little bit of strawberries I got this year
I use cow manure when I plant and other than that no fertilizer or pesticides on my plants. My peppers and tomatoes are just fine.As were the little bit of strawberries I got this year
10-05-2011, 10:47 AM
#44
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Oshkosh, Wis
Posts: 759
Never buy apples, my husband grows our own and eat 3-4 aday. Love them. Except this year, ladder tipped with him on top of ladder (10ft ladder) Am now sitting in hospital with him with a broken hip. Had surgery, 3 pins put in and now on the road to recovery. Was quite a scare. But we have lots of apples and plenty for anyone else who wants to pick them.
10-05-2011, 12:57 PM
#45
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 935
Originally Posted by mhansen6
It says the pesticides were ON the apple so if you wash the apple well you should be OK.
10-05-2011, 02:33 PM
#46
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: maine/washington
Posts: 1,572
And don't forget all the creepy-crawleys that get on our produce. By the time we finished the tomatoes, we had disposed of 25 tomato horn worms.
And we are looking into organic "poisons" to prevent late blight and powdery mildew. We lost over a dozen beautiful big tomatoes to the blight. Now I understand the Irish potato famine. It seemed overnight that everything rotted away.
Mim
And we are looking into organic "poisons" to prevent late blight and powdery mildew. We lost over a dozen beautiful big tomatoes to the blight. Now I understand the Irish potato famine. It seemed overnight that everything rotted away.
Mim
10-06-2011, 05:55 AM
#49
Super Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: maine/washington
Posts: 1,572
as kids we heard that you had to eat a peck of dirt before you died. For some crazy reason we decided to eat sand -- and filled a tiny cobalt blue Bromo Seltzer bottle. We dared each other to eat it.
Kids are nuts!!! but we survived it all
Mim
I wonder how big is a peck -- there was a song a bushel and a peck ----
Kids are nuts!!! but we survived it all
Mim
I wonder how big is a peck -- there was a song a bushel and a peck ----
Originally Posted by Mary T.
I wonder how I have lived to age 70!!!!
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
craftybear
Recipes
5
09-24-2011 01:36 PM
