Growing in my garden today
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I was out in my garden on Saturday and picked a huge bowl of kale for green smoothies and kale chips. I still have tomatoes and my sugar snap peas are blooming! I spotted my first strawberry too. I am not sure with our wacky warm Texas winter what will happen with the strawberries, but right now they look great. I didn’t take pictures of everything, I just snapped a few. All the tomato vines are brown, so after I get the last of the tomatoes, I will pull the plants and start something else there. I am about to plant a few new things so stay posted to see what will be new in my garden!
If you are new to my blog, here are the benefits of my unique raised urban garden plans. Check out my other posts for recipes and what I grow in my garden.
huge bowl of kale I picked for green smoothies and kale chips
kale
blooms from the sugar snap peas
tomatoes
my first strawberry
celery growing back after harvest
cabbage
my lettuce bed
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Is that black plastic ‘bucket’ that the plants are growing in.. is it BPA free? Do you think it links chemicals into the soil?
Thanks.
Missy,
Hi! Thanks for the comment and your question. It is a valid one that others might ask, so thanks for asking. I have done a little research on it and have found that I think it is okay to
use the plastic tubs to garden in. Here is a website that helps explain my thinking. http://www.researchgate.net/post/If_BPA_or_BPS_is_leaching_from_plastic_containers_filled_with_soil_is_this_toxic_substance_absorbed_by_food_crops_growing_in_those_containers
I think there is so little leeching occurring from the plastic if any that it doesn’t affect the plants, and I feel I am much more healthy as a result of eating home grown food.
Good luck to you and wishing you a great garden harvest!
Melanie
Update:
Hi! I kept doing research and found out that my tubs are BPA free.
Check out this link and see what you think,
http://ecovillagegreen.com/1812/what-are-safe-plastic-numbers-to-use/
http://www.h2no.org/plastic_recycling_codes.asp
It looks like if the recycling codes are #2, #4, or #5 then it should be BPA – free and safe.
The tubs I use and reccomend are #5