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The TRUTH About Baby Carrots & Other Plant Tips For City Kids
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The moment I discovered that baby carrots are just whittled-down big carrots, I realized that I had some serious garden learning to do. With the help of a co-worker with an environmental studies degree, and many crushing hours reading Barbara Kingsolver's local food bestseller, I have comprised you fellow city kids a list of some surprising information about the things we chew!
BABY CARROTS ARE JUST WHITTLED BIG CARROTS DIPPED IN STRANGE PRESERVATIVES
In my state of trauma, I spent all of last Friday night spreading my baby carrot sermon to unconcerned partygoers. While no one seemed to share my intense reaction, almost no one had heard this fact before!
Hey, carrot lady!
PHONE: Hey, girl – It’s Adam from the party on Saturday night. Remember? We talked about baby carrots?
ME: Um. . . This isn’t really narrowing it down for me. . .
An asparagus fern in fruition.
YOU CAN "RE-GROW" GREEN ONIONS BY PLACING STUBS IN WATER
Cafe Gratitude
2400 Harrison St, San Francisco, CA 94110
Eat it raw at Cafe Gratitutde.
Eat it raw at Cafe Gratitutde.
PINEAPPLES GROW OUT OF THE GROUND
Try growing your own pineapple from the top of an old one. All you need is a little pot of soil, and about 4 years of patience. At least your homegrown pineapple won’t have to make that flight from the tropics!
Try growing your own pineapple from the top of an old one. All you need is a little pot of soil, and about 4 years of patience. At least your homegrown pineapple won’t have to make that flight from the tropics!
RED PEPPERS ARE JUST RIPENED GREEN PEPPERS
I swear I somehow already knew this one. But I recall being utterly shocked when I first found out many moons ago.
This is how REAL baby carrots look.
Ferry Building Marketplace
1 Ferry Bldg , San Francisco, CA 94111
Remind yourself what a real carrot tastes like here for only $12 a pound.
Remind yourself what a real carrot tastes like here for only $12 a pound.
Imperator Carrots
The mega industrial carrot from which baby carrots derive is called the “Imperator.” Not only does this sound like the name of some respirator-wearing force of evil, but it is also bred to grow and ripen quickly, thus reducing its beta carotene content by 30%.
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Although it didn’t make this list, talking about baby carrots all night at a party is a really good option as well.
ASPARAGUS ARE JUST IMMATURE LITTLE TREES
Let it grow beyond its short time as a tender stem, and it will become a bushy asparagus fern.
As for white asparagus...
The white asparagus is cultivated by protecting the plant from natural light, to avoid chlorophyll pigmentation. Note: This process does hinder some amount of nutritive development.
You know times are hard when...
It’s true! I tried this, and had fresh green sprouts in less than a week. Supposedly, you can do it as many as four times, but I think my roommates were getting tired of having to explain the wine glass full of murky water and onion bulbs to our guests.
The beginnings of a baby pineapple.
I know I’m probably going to get some serious dunce points for this one, but my daydreams about going pineapple picking have insofar been imagined at the tops of tall trees.
POTATOES HAVE LEAVES
But don’t eat ’em! Potato, tomato, eggplant, pepper and tobacco leaves are amongst the list of leaves that the human body cannot process.
Fort Mason Center
Marina Blvd & Buchanan St, San Francisco, CA 94123
Get your garden going at the community gardens at Ft. Mason. Or at least just frollick through the rosemary with the bees and skunks until your name shifts down 5 years on the waiting list for a plot.
Get your garden going at the community gardens at Ft. Mason. Or at least just frollick through the rosemary with the bees and skunks until your name shifts down 5 years on the waiting list for a plot.
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