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Nutrient density of vegetables in your garden
width=”550″ height=”316″ /> Just out of curiosity I got my hands on the USDA food database and had a little fun in Excel and the results were pretty interesting. Assuming I wanted to figure out what vegetables I could grow in my garden had the highest nutrient density. I wrote a formula for each nutrient from Vitamin A to Zinc what percentage rank across all of the foods did…
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Serious weed control
I have been having a losing battle with cattails for the past couple years. This was what was lurking under my snow peas after I pulled them out. The problem with cattails is they do not emerge until the temperatures increase and given their broad root structure trying to remove them will most likely kill the plants (in this case peas) surrounding them. If you attempt to pull cattails…
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Grocery store Vegetables are not as nutritious as they used to be?
“University of Texas, Austin. Davis claims the average vegetable found in today’s supermarket is anywhere from 5% to 40% lower in minerals (including magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc) than those harvested just 50 years ago.” Not only are those vegetables you been eating at the grocery store less tasty, but may be getting marginal nutritional value. They discuss some of the potential factors in this including use for synthetic…
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Tomatoland: How modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit review
There is a very good reason why tomatoes are the most popular vegetable grown in the home garden, you can’t beat the taste of a home grown tomato. Tomatoland provides and exposé of specifically the Florida tomato industry showing many of the negative, though there are still a few positives explaining the history and the process of getting this previously alluring fruit to your local grocery store. After reading…
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Easy Ways to Eat Local
alt=”FarmersMarket” src=”https://i0.wp.com/www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FarmersMarket.jpg?resize=400%2C258″ width=”400″ height=”258″ srcset=”https://i0.wp.com/www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FarmersMarket.jpg?w=400&ssl=1 400w, https://i0.wp.com/www.cheapvegetablegardener.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FarmersMarket.jpg?resize=300%2C193&ssl=1 300w” sizes=”auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px” /> Whether you want to eat local just to know where your food comes from, to support your local farmers, or possibly an environmental perspective of promoting organic farming or going for a challenge of a 100 mile diet, here is a guest post to help you out. Eating local has tons of benefits. Fresh food,…
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Deterring mystery pest from eating my tomatoes: New Updates
width=”549″ height=”412″ /> This is not the first time visitors have stolen tomatoes from my garden, but this year the mystery pest has gotten every ripe tomato I have grown this year, which given out cold/wet summer has only been about a dozen ripe tomatoes. I normally go with the philosophy of this land is owned by my neighborhood animals first and I am fine sharing a tomato, some…
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