Vegetables that melt into slime

I was reminded by one of farm helpers we have that some vegetables that are stored at room temperature are not safe because of salmonella and other potential food poisoning.

According to his findings, vegetables start to deteriorate after harvest and increase the population of potentially health hazard organisms.

I agree with certain aspects. If chicken manure or other animal manure are applied, there is always potential contamination. This is one reason natural farming insists on using no animal manure sources.

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So here is my testing method.

Store vegetables at room temperature or in a refrigerator and see how long it takes for the vegetables to turn into slime.

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I found that many vegetables I got from farmers market or stores melt into slime in matter of less than a week.

Have you had any experiences looking through vegetables in a refrigerator and wondering why the vegetables go bad so quickly? Natural farming slime experiment showed that there are too much free nitrate absorbed by plants. Generally nitrate comes from application of fertilizers both organic and conventional. Generally organic fertilizers tend to be worse because organic growers tend to overdo with organic fertilizers because they don't burn the plants as much as chemical fertilizers. so the result is not as clear when growing, but consumers are the ones that really see what's wrong.

Read next story of my Green Pepper storage test.