Of the 53 fruits and vegetables tested, the Environmental Working Group found potatoes to be the #9 most heavily sprayed vegetable. Because they are root vegetables they absorb about anything in the soil. They are treated with fungicides during the growing season, then sprayed with herbicides to kill off the vines before harvesting and after they are dug they are sprayed again to prevent them from sprouting.
Four Friends Farms is transitioning to organic and we use organic standards in our growing practices. Purchasing potatoes grown this way will reduce your exposure to all synthetic chemicals. It also sends the message that you support environmentally friendly farming practices that not only protect us but protect our wildlife as well.
So if you find your potatoes sprouting, it’s not such a bad thing. If they are still firm break off the sprouts and go ahead and enjoy.
Good reminder!
Avocados should only be rifergerated when they’re ripe and you want to slow that down because you don’t plan on eating them in the next day or two. Also, if you only eat half leave the pit in half and refrigerate that in an airtight container.Tomatoes- never.Herbs like to be in a glass jar of water, like plants. In a window if possible. I’ve kept parsley alive for almost 2 months this way.Spinach lives longer in a square container as opposed to a bag.Mostly I keep potatoes in the crisper drawer on the right (they sprout in my house), and eggs and butter in the crisper drawer on the left!Fruits and veg are so individually needy that I put them in their own containers, be it bags or boxes, and put them wherever they fit.Strawberries, when in season, will last up to 3 weeks surrounded by paper towels in an airtight container.Good luck!
So, A few ideas:I’m no crisper-drawer-expert, for sure, but, this might help you clear out some room in your frgdie, if nothing else!DO NOT refrigerate:garlictomatoespotatoessweet potatoesreally, the limes don’t need it, either garlic WILL sprout in the frgdie. it does better in drier, non-refrigerator settings (and actually lasts LONGER.)tomatoes are just better if you don’t refrigerate them.potatoes do some weird thing where their starch turns to sugar if they are refrigerated, and makes the consistency of them weird when you cook them.you’ll get a GOOD 2 weeks out of a lime at room temp.hope that helps! I think a less cramped crisper drawer is better