Growers Daily What to Grow if You Can Grow Anything + Undersowing Cover Crops with Tomatoes?
Welcome to episode 14 of Growers Daily!
We cover: Microplastics and are farmers to blame, the importance of neighbors, what to undersow with tomatoes, and what you should grow if you can grow anything.
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Citations:
Wirecutter article: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/how-to-avoid-eating-microplastics/
Nature Editorial: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-024-02968-x
Biosolids info: https://www.epa.gov/biosolids/basic-information-about-biosolids
Microplastics on farm fields: https://www.nrdc.org/stories/growing-concern-microplastic-pollution-farm-fields
Microplastics on farm fields in China: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0269749123002373#:~:text=As%20for%20biosolids%2C%20MPs%20entering,the%20sources%20of%20MPs%20identified.
Tuna and Plastics: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35305437/#:~:text=A%20significant%20presence%20of%20MPs,case%20of%20oil%2Dcontaining%20samples.
Tires and microplastics:: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5664766/
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