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Is organic gardening viable?
"shazzbat" wrote in message ... "Ivan McDonagh" wrote in message 7.67... "Ray Drouillard" wrote in : "Terry Collins" wrote in message ... Ivan McDonagh wrote: SNIP Don't forget the big reason: The food tastes so much better! Ray It's this sort of anectodal evidence, Ray, that I'm curious about - one of my friends had a load of vegies from my totally organic garden last year and maintained how much better they were than the chemically grown ones. Yet I genuinely couldn't say definitely one way or the other .... SNIP As I understand it, someone did some blind tests to prove or disprove the claim that home-grown veggies taste better, and the results basically were that even the home growers couldn't tell their own produce from supermarket bought produce. I don't know whether this was cooked, raw or a mixture of both. But I don't care, there's nothing to beat the smug feeling of knowing that you grew what you're eating. I wonder who did the study. I wonder what veggies were used. Radishes and lettuce might be difficult, but I have yet to see a store-boughten peach that comes even close to one that was picked ripe from the tree (as opposed to being picked green and ripened after being severed from its source of sugar). The same sort of goes for tomatoes. It isn't as much an issue of vine-ripening, but there is a taste that comes with home grown tomatoes that is missing in the store-boughten fare. Perhaps buying some of the $3.00/pound premium tomatoes would fix that, but I wouldn't bet on it. Ray Drouillard |
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