Gardens, Food and Food supply issues.

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If any of you know of anyone who frequent uses dry aerosol shampoo products, you might tell them about this.

Popular Shampoos Recalled Due to Potential Presence of Cancer-Causing Chemical - Truth Press

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If any of you know of anyone who frequent uses dry aerosol shampoo products, you might tell them about this.

Popular Shampoos Recalled Due to Potential Presence of Cancer-Causing Chemical - Truth Press

For years companies have put PEG-40 (hydrogenated Castor Oil) in their products, a known carcinogen found in a lot of shampoo products, mouthwash, toothpaste and ladies makeup products. peg-40 carcinogen - Google Search

Again, I ask...why is this allowed in consumer products if this is a known carcinogen? These companies should be held accountable for the ingredients they put into their products.

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If any of you know of anyone who frequent uses dry aerosol shampoo products, you might tell them about this.

Popular Shampoos Recalled Due to Potential Presence of Cancer-Causing Chemical - Truth Press

I did not know that shampoo came in an aerosol spray. We actually use shampoo ginger from our yard to use as a hair and skin cleanser when possible.
Shampoo Ginger Plant: 'Awapuhi Kuahiwi - Epic Gardening

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[allan]

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So I bought some butternuts from the grocer used them and save the seeds. To my supersize one butternut squash plant came up and the rest were gem squash plants!? Did not know that was even possible. Must be cross pollination were they were growing next to each other.

So the female butternuts flowers must have been pollinated by male gem flowers.

First time for me to plant cucumbers and I found that very rewarding. They grow like crazy. I have only two plants and I have a nice fruit every second day and no end in sight yet.

[copiertec]

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So I bought some butternuts from the grocer used them and save the seeds. To my supersize one butternut squash plant came up and the rest were gem squash plants!? Did not know that was even possible. Must be cross pollination were they were growing next to each other.

So the female butternuts flowers must have been pollinated by male gem flowers.

First time for me to plant cucumbers and I found that very rewarding. They grow like crazy. I have only two plants and I have a nice fruit every second day and no end in sight yet.

Awesome! We grow butternut squash as well, that is interesting that they cross pollinate. From what I know avocado grown from seed with cross pollinate with other avocados in the area also, basically avocado is not true to seed either.
Love me some fresh grown cucumbers. I'm a little behind my seed sprouting this year due to a hurricane that hit us last month. I had cucumbers growing last year and they were doing great, but one day they just started dying back. I was unsure of what it was at the time, I pulled back on watering, etc. but they still continued to die back, so I yanked one of them out to inspect the roots and nematodes got to them, I could tell by the root knots. So, this year I plan to grow them in our protected raised beds.

[allan]

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Awesome! We grow butternut squash as well, that is interesting that they cross pollinate. From what I know avocado grown from seed with cross pollinate with other avocados in the area also, basically avocado is not true to seed either.
Love me some fresh grown cucumbers. I'm a little behind my seed sprouting this year due to a hurricane that hit us last month. I had cucumbers growing last year and they were doing great, but one day they just started dying back. I was unsure of what it was at the time, I pulled back on watering, etc. but they still continued to die back, so I yanked one of them out to inspect the roots and nematodes got to them, I could tell by the root knots. So, this year I plan to grow them in our protected raised beds.

Nematodes - yuk. Don't give me new fears and phobias. Seems like there are good and bad nematodes out there. I had a hell of a time transplanting the cucumber seedlings . They have very sensitive and fine root systems. Out of the 5 I got only 2 made it. The others welted or rotted at the base. I try to grow everything I can in big pots and the new batch of cucumber seedling transplanted just fine but those I germinated myself. The reason I use pots would be for space and that I found a spot underneath a compost heap that is pure worm casting and its an easy way to concentrate the good soil I have.

I forgot that the US was hit hard this year. Hope the damage was minimal. I went thru the devastation of a hurricane myself. Had nice star lit sealings for about a month. Never did we thought it would hit the east coast of Africa.

[Phil B.]

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Awesome! We grow butternut squash as well, that is interesting that they cross pollinate. From what I know avocado grown from seed with cross pollinate with other avocados in the area also, basically avocado is not true to seed either.
Love me some fresh grown cucumbers. I'm a little behind my seed sprouting this year due to a hurricane that hit us last month. I had cucumbers growing last year and they were doing great, but one day they just started dying back. I was unsure of what it was at the time, I pulled back on watering, etc. but they still continued to die back, so I yanked one of them out to inspect the roots and nematodes got to them, I could tell by the root knots. So, this year I plan to grow them in our protected raised beds.

How do you construct your raised beds.
Being in NC USA we have some hurdles to get over.


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[Phil B.]

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Nematodes - yuk. Don't give me new fears and phobias. Seems like there are good and bad nematodes out there. I had a hell of a time transplanting the cucumber seedlings . They have very sensitive and fine root systems. Out of the 5 I got only 2 made it. The others welted or rotted at the base. I try to grow everything I can in big pots and the new batch of cucumber seedling transplanted just fine but those I germinated myself. The reason I use pots would be for space and that I found a spot underneath a compost heap that is pure worm casting and its an easy way to concentrate the good soil I have.

I forgot that the US was hit hard this year. Hope the damage was minimal. I went thru the devastation of a hurricane myself. Had nice star lit sealings for about a month. Never did we thought it would hit the east coast of Africa.

RE: transplanting cucumber and squash.
I use paper towel tubes 3 - 4 inch long. Cut one end into 4 sections 3/4" long interlock when folding to form a base.
Fill with high quality soil.. insert seed.. bind six/eight tubes with twine. Set in 2-3" walled pans ..fill with water ..set in sunny window.

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How do you construct your raised beds.
Being in NC USA we have some hurdles to get over.


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There are lots of options out there. The big problem is when you try to search for projects most what you get are ads from places like Home Depot, Lowes, Amazon, etc. Depending on what you want to plant and how much, it can be as simple as a window box or as complex as covering you entire back yard. You can go low cost by recycling wooden pallets, though more and more they are going to card board pallets or high cost with new construction lumber. One place to start is checking if there are any nearby schools that have started victory garden type projects.

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RE: transplanting cucumber and squash.
I use paper towel tubes 3 - 4 inch long. Cut one end into 4 sections 3/4" long interlock when folding to form a base.
Fill with high quality soil.. insert seed.. bind six/eight tubes with twine. Set in 2-3" walled pans ..fill with water ..set in sunny window.

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A lot of people do not realize this but other than grain, most crops are not grown from seeds planted in the field. You know the tomato and other seedlings you see in gardening stores in the egg crate type flats?

Well a lot of farms get pretty much exactly the same type of seedlings. I had a customer years who was a commercial nursery and provided seedlings to farms all across the west coast. I can't remember exactly how many green houses he had, at least 18. The environment in each was fully automated on an IBM AT running DOS. He had written his own control system using Symphony. It tracked and adjusted all the environmental conditions for each green house. It also tracked what seedlings each of his customers needed, when they needed them and when they need to be started to met the requested delivery date. When the main planting season ended, he then converted to growing Poinsettias for the Christmas season for a number of retailers.

[copiertec]

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How do you construct your raised beds.
Being in NC USA we have some hurdles to get over.


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We recycle old fence wood 1X6 and untreated 4x4 posts on all 4 ends. We stack the 1x6 3-4 high and make our beds 4' wide and 8' long. We take black weed matt and line the raised beds with it. We take old leaves ,sticks and thick branches and line the bottom of the raised bed, then we fill it with composted material mixed with local sand. Right now we are growing various types of sweet potatoes orange, Chinese purple, yellow sweet potatoes and bonioto potatoes (Cuban). We are also growing tomatoes some small black sweet ones, squash (grown from seed in our compost bin).
We also plant marigold flowers in the beds, at least 2 per bed on either end, from what I have read and understand the roots are poison for the root knot nematodes.
We also grow in these big planter pots that we got from a furniture store that went out of business. They are made out of fiberglass and about 3' in diameter and the same in height, 6 total. I grow all my Chinese and Okinawan spinaches in them. We keep them in a screened in area for less sun exposure and they do good.

[copiertec]

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There are lots of options out there. The big problem is when you try to search for projects most what you get are ads from places like Home Depot, Lowes, Amazon, etc. Depending on what you want to plant and how much, it can be as simple as a window box or as complex as covering you entire back yard. You can go low cost by recycling wooden pallets, though more and more they are going to card board pallets or high cost with new construction lumber. One place to start is checking if there are any nearby schools that have started victory garden type projects.

To start seedlings I use various things. What I have learned is that they must stay wet to germinate and be successful, so I use plastic sealable containers like the ones from the bakery that cakes or pies come in. I look for rectangular ones load them with a good started mix, I use peat moss, sand and compost mix. I keep the soil mix moist and light humidity inside the sealable container. I let them germinate and transplant into smaller recycled solo cups, then out to the planting fields one they have grown accustom to sun exposure.
I like Phil's idea of paper towel rolls, I am going to use that. Because the problem I get is when I start my seeds I do not have any barriers and some times I have to cut establishing roots as I start to transplant them.