Do you believe that a head of celery should cost less than a head of broccoli, cauliflower or single artichoke!
they can't balme all the nonsense on transportation costs..
when we know that many products are local
but the market is controled from another state and the warehouse network and they continue to stock tomatoes from Hawawii for California
Answers: My campaign is to wake you up to thrify and common sense..
they can't balme all the nonsense on transportation costs..
when we know that many products are local
but the market is controled from another state and the warehouse network and they continue to stock tomatoes from Hawawii for California
The consumption and demand on celery is still much greater than the others, making it produced more, therefore costing less. Plus, as a gardener, the others are more susceptible to bugs and viruses, therefore driving the cost of growing them up. If we consumed as much of the others as we do celery...(which goes into a lot of soups and stuff...), then the cost of the others would go down.
Go Artichokes!
(am steaming some as I write!)
Oh - and a pet peeve of mine is the so-called "vine-ripened tomatoes" that are bright red and still on the vine, but yet HARD AS A ROCK. I would like to know where they've been "vine-ripened" at...
Huh? Before you rant, know your veggies. Celery grows fast and is full of even more water than the others, therefore cheaper to grow.
From where I come from, there is no head of celery. A stalk yes.
And also a head of cabage.
Some crops require different growing conditions and also take longer to grow. Celery requires almost boggy soil, and takes nearly 3 months from seed to harvest. Artichokes grow well only in a very small area of Central California, and also take some time to grow. Broccoli and cabbage, on the other hand, are ready within 2 months of planting and grow just about anywhere.
Get to know your veggies, it isn't always transportation costs; it costs money to grow the stuff, and some crops that will survive shipping are grown in such a way that large scale dousing with chemicals is the only way to grow them.
There are several good books available that tell how vegetables grow; I recommend the annual Western Garden Book; if you live outside the Western states there's a national version as well. Rodale Press puts out some great books on the subject of gardening. These books should be in your local library.