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Gluten In The Garden?


SGWhiskers

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I just spent the best spring day out in the garden. I grabbed a soda and started wondering if there were hidden sources of gluten anywhere in my garden. I would consider myself super sensitive and spend much of the summer outside eating and especially drinking while I make the flowers grow. Don't say just wash your hands well, because real life is too much fun if I don't have to worry about gluten.

Areas which might be suspicious for me:

1) compost from farms

2) compost from the nursery

3) Compost from my house (who knows what stale groceries I put in there over the years) (cold compost pile)

4) the straw I put on my fresh planted grass 4 years ago that was never pulled up.

5) powder in my garden gloves.

6) neighborhood animal poop (I'll be washing diligently if I come across that one).

7) the mulch I poured spagetti water on last summer.

8) fertilizer? Not that I'll be licking it.

Things I know would be a problem

I'll have hubby rip up the small wild oats I planted last year.

The BBQ area.

New straw or hay that will not be coming to my yard this year.

Can you share knowledge about especially the compost and straw worries or anything else you can think of.


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I also enjoy my life more when I don't have to think about it so I research everything before it comes home the first time and take precautions when cleaning out old stuff when I remember possibly contaminating it in a past life.

I haven't had any issues with compost but I often do wonder what's in it (that's not just a gluten thing). There was wheat straw in one small area of the yard so I asked my husband to remove it. I know I have issues being around wheat straw so I just didn't want to chance it. We use fescue hay for everything now and it works great. I replaced my gloves really only because they needed it and it was a good excuse because I couldn't remember where they'd been. I've never had a problem with fertilizer, bone meal, etc. I wear a mask when I use that kind of stuff because I can't stand the smell.

foodiegurl Collaborator

Gpod question, I am curious as well, since this will be my first year gluten-free, and I love gardening..veggies, herbs and perennials.

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