What's up everyone? Welcome back to the epic gardening podcast. This is Kevin. Today we're talking about something that happens after the harvest so how do you get your

pesticides off of your produce.

And you know if you grow at home hopefully you don't have to use any pesticides,

but you know most of us don't grow 100% of our produce from home,

which means that sometimes we buy it from the store, which means that sometimes we want to make sure that we wash our fruits, our vegetables, etc. so that they don't have any pesticides on them.

Now I'm going to go through a couple different methods.

This is probably the simplest one though.

So the simplest one is to fill a bowl with four parts water to one part plain white vinegar and then soak the

fruit or vegetable that you'd like to clean for I don't know one or two minutes something like that nothing crazy and then

give it a nice rinse with your faucet so washing your produce in general can

reduce pesticide residue it won't eliminate all pesticides. But one thing to consider is that

there are some fruits and vegetables that just have more pesticide use in general

because they are big targets for pests.

So if you don't want to go buck wild washing every different piece of your produce,

you can go after what is known as the dirty dozen.

Now these are the 12 crops that have the most pesticide usage as of 2017

so I'm going to run down this list for you really quickly. Strawberries, spinach,

nectarines, apples, peaches, pears, cherries, grapes, celery, tomatoes,

sweet bell peppers, potatoes, and hot peppers.

So if you have any of those fruits, any of those vegetables that you've purchased from the

grocery store, you may want to prioritize washing those well.

And don't worry too much about the other plants because they just have significantly less

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