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129 messages, Last post on Aug 01, 2009 at 8:46 PM
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The corn is tasseling. No silk yet. Wife went out to oil it today. Considering our temps are about 15 degrees below normal this Spring I guess the corn is doing ok. Not near enough sun so far this year. I'll bet the folks up North would like a little global warming about now. Plums are nearly ripe. Nothing like last years crop. Good thing we made lots of jam and brandy last year. Still have plenty left. Good peach, grape and apple crop and not a single cherry on 8 trees. I think the late frost got em. 
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Replying to: gagrice (Jun 15, 2009 4:53 pm) Did you know that every single silk goes to a single niblet on the cob?
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Replying to: steve_ (Jun 15, 2009 5:25 pm) 
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The good news is these are taking off. The bad news is they make use up all the space in my garden, and I won't have a crop until October. Cherry tomatoes also are coming in strong. Too early for fruit but I can just tell it'll be a good year for those.
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Replying to: ateixeira (Jun 17, 2009 8:19 am)
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Our corn is looking good. My wife says she may pick some for this evening meal. With the CA water shortage this may be the last year we grow corn. They have doubled the price of water over last year. Plus penalties for using more than 90% of last year's usage. It made it to 10 foot this year on the first planting. Purple potatoes in the other part. We have dug a few and eaten them. Taste like potatoes.  
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 09, 2009 5:34 am) I've gotten a yellow banana pepper, a squash, half a dozen cuces, and a few cherry tomatoes so far. The pumpkin plant is taking off, so hopefully I get a few to make jack-o-lanterns for Halloween. |
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I think the soil has more to do with the food value in the produce than the fertilizer and pesticides used. In the USA the Organic Food produce industry is not all it is cracked up to be. Organic food is no healthier, study finds LONDON (Reuters) - Organic food has no nutritional or health benefits over ordinary food, according to a major study published Wednesday. Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine said consumers were paying higher prices for organic food because of its perceived health benefits, creating a global organic market worth an estimated $48 billion in 2007. A systematic review of 162 scientific papers published in the scientific literature over the last 50 years, however, found there was no significant difference. "A small number of differences in nutrient content were found to exist between organically and conventionally produced foodstuffs, but these are unlikely to be of any public health relevance," said Alan Dangour, one of the report's authors. "Our review indicates that there is currently no evidence to support the selection of organically over conventionally produced foods on the basis of nutritional superiority." The results of research, which was commissioned by the British government's Food Standards Agency, were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Sales of organic food have fallen in some markets, including Britain, as recession has led consumers to cut back on purchases. The Soil Association said in April that growth in sales of organic products in Britain slowed to just 1.7 percent in 2008, well below the average annual growth rate of 26 percent over the last decade, following a plunge in demand at the end of the year.
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Replying to: gagrice (Jul 30, 2009 4:54 am) I'm a bit confused about the study... I always thought eating organic food was about avoiding chemicals, not about better nutrition.
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Replying to: tallman1 (Jul 30, 2009 7:01 am) My feeling is that the health value from eating an apple outweighs any possible risks, especially after you wash it thoroughly. I made a GREAT apple sauce from the apple trees in my back yard last year. I guess they are "organic" but Santa Cruz county did do some bug spraying last year, so I dunno. I'm still alive though.
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