Which shows (on page 13) that 38% of tested Fruit and Veg contained no Pesticides, 59% contained pesticides at or below the allowed level and 3.3% contained pesticides above the allowed level
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Veg - stick it in a colander and rinse it under the tap. Fruit, usually just wipe it. Soft fruit I rarely buy it, so it's normally straight off the plant, occasionally picking off the wildlife as I go. Bedding, always wash it first as OH gets migraines from most strong smelling detergents and from dust.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
.... Soft fruit I rarely buy it, so it's normally straight off the plant, occasionally picking off the wildlife as I go....
Some of us can't see the wildlife on the fruit without the aid of reading glasses ... sometimes not even with ... if they will lurk on blackberries they deserve to get eaten.
I never never never wash raspberries ... ruins them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Since my OH told me about someone he knew who grew lettuces commercially, 10 weeks to grow and sprayed as many times, I do wash salads and fruit. not raspberries, but then I don’t ever buy them from the shop.
Since changing from plastic type bedding to pure cotton, I do wash sheets and duvet covers, it has a smell to it especially Indian or Egyptian cottons. Never washed the old poly/cotton types though. Didn't wash the cotton duvet itself.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
ALERT for the sensitive. My dear late Mother rarely washed her frying pans. The lard was allowed to harden and the pans went back onto the shelf in the pantry. She said it added to the flavour. She lives to 72
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I thought, "you cheeky git, i have a shower every night before i go to bed!".
Which shows (on page 13) that 38% of tested Fruit and Veg contained no Pesticides,
59% contained pesticides at or below the allowed level and 3.3% contained pesticides above the allowed level
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
@B3 apparently you need one of these >>> Vegetable and fruit purifier
'The power of accurate observation .... is commonly called cynicism by those that have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw'
Fruit, usually just wipe it. Soft fruit I rarely buy it, so it's normally straight off the plant, occasionally picking off the wildlife as I go.
Bedding, always wash it first as OH gets migraines from most strong smelling detergents and from dust.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
I never never never wash raspberries ... ruins them.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
not raspberries, but then I don’t ever buy them from the shop.
Since changing from plastic type bedding to pure cotton, I do wash sheets and duvet covers, it has a smell to it especially Indian or Egyptian cottons. Never washed the old poly/cotton types though.
Didn't wash the cotton duvet itself.
My dear late Mother rarely washed her frying pans. The lard was allowed to harden and the pans went back onto the shelf in the pantry. She said it added to the flavour.
She lives to 72