Are you aware of the pesticides that food has?

I agree. Some vegetable plants are gorgeous!

I tried several times to post a picture of my sweet peppers for you to see, but this computer is not working. I posted somewhere else here one of my hot pepper plant. It pained me to pick the peppers to make a wonderful hot sauce.

I think it´s dangerous for everyone. I grow some veggies. Some are so beautiful that we can use it as ornamental plants too

I had never heard of such a thing! But I often wonder at the difference between the way they raise chicken now and the way they did it when I was a kid. Chicken took their time to grow, but their meat was far better. If people are injecting veggies, we should start learneing to plant our own veggies.

I have a farmers market nearby twice a week. But I´m lazy (specially since my chemo) and the farket is open only in the morning. So I go there once in a while and buy several veggies so they last. I freeze some of them too.

Hello there , Rosekitty and MArguicha. Those horrible chemicals concern me alot And I want to know more about them. Rosekitty , Can you give me some links to discussions where you wrote about the pesticides ? I found a website in hebrew that specify many pesticides and the crops that those are used for , but it is ment for people who know a lot about them. A newbie has to read a lot about the pesticides and it will take too much time. I want to know what crops and pesticides to be away from.

I agree with topffer and I check if they have a branand at the super that says they are organic. As for farmers market, I doubt that they are organic. That´s why I´m trying to grow at home those veggies that I like to eat raw. I have always a container with coriander leaves and I have several herbs that are perennial (oregano, chives, parsley and the like). Now that is Autumn here, I´m starting my own lettuce and kale.

I don´t use pesticides in my apricot tree. Probably some of the apricots get eaten by ants and birds. But I can clean an apricot with my hand and eat it without washing it

Fortunatly in my country we have good and cheap veggies and fruit if you buy them on season. But farmer´s market is close to my house only twice a week and I prefer to grow some of my own veggies so that I don´t have to rely on my going there at the right time of the day. Here fish and seafood get extremelly expensive during Easter time. I usually either buy it in advance or do without.

Hiya stringer, Username is very long yes but most people just put lovin an that is it. It was fresh spinach and very fresh looking but even though I washed it thoroughly it was still dirty so it seems so I did it again and then it was really clean but I had a colic and vomiting attack almost right away after since then I have only ever ate it frozen as they can clean it much better. Like you I was really ill and I thought like I was dying it was just that really wretched feeling when you can´t stop being sick and the colic as well at the same time. It took me nearly a whole Day to get over it. Also Swiss Chard is another one to be very careful with as well it can be treacherous you have to eat it very fresh no keeping it in the Fridge for a few Days it has to be cleaned very well and used. I think it is not only the pesticide but the very bad quality of water that they might use as well. Right on strawberries are so wonderful but they can be very treacherous as well all depends really. We can never really know what sort of treatment they have been given can we? As most of us cannot grow those things on our own through lack of space and so on we have to rely on the suppliers. I am never usually sick with anything but when I was ill with that it was quite bad. That is twice actually I have been sick through spinach or swiss chard. Sorry I don´t know the pesticide but I would have hoped that I would have got rid of it as I wash everything so well. Now I wash them and scald them all in boiling water first and throw the first water out and replace it with fresh water hope this helps I also throw in the first boil a clove of garlic and lemon sometimes. Seeing as strawberries are in at the moment I will be very careful and hope that it does not happen to me a colic attack is pretty bad I know. Hope this helps a little although you can never be 100 per cent sure of anything can you? Good eating with your strawberries too.xxx

Hello there , lovingangelsinstead21 (wow , what a long name , my fingers are tired :)). Can you please tell what exactly was that green and what was the pesticide it had ? Maybe you can save many people who read about it , preventing them from getting sick. I once ate strawberries at the mourning and during the day I got such a stomach pain and I didn't even reach the toilet in time. It was too urgent.

I started after reading some posts here made by Granpa Bob (I had had a vegetable garden when I had small children, many years ago. Now each season I learn a bit more and it´s interesting to plant nd eat our produce.

Do send us a picture of your veggies, luv. I have posted several times pictures of my veggies. Now I just make the most incredible hot pepper sauce I´ve seen. YUMMY!!!

There are some people in my city that wash lettuce adding some chlorine to the water. I don´t like that because the taste changes. But I am trying to grow as much veggies as I can. Not potatoes, as they will be cooked before eating, but the veggies that we eat raw.

I am trying to grow my own veggies, specially the ones I like to eat raw. Thanks for answering.

I think my doctor is wonderful. And in my country, giving a booklet about what to do and what not to do when in chemo is standard procedure. The nurse gave me the book, made me read it and then came to test me. I passed. But some people don´t have the knowledge required and they must be taught.

I love to eat some raw veggies. There´s nothing better for me than a salad with iceberg lettuce, celery, avocado and arugule. Other times I make a sort of greek slad with olives and feta or goat cheese. Now I have lettuce, kale and arugule in my garden so there´s only the celery to clean.