Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pete Vukovich <pvukovic1@yahoo.com>]

Probably a great question , all I could find was a usda chart including weevil damaged lentils, but I have no idea what it means. Curious why not just wash them out like any other bug and cook the lentils? Unless most of them are damaged then I guess I'd personally toss them unless making compost tea (wanna make sure I drown out the weevil eggs).


If somebody can explain the table to me it would be great! Don't quite understand dockage-free requirements either, but it was interesting so I looked at it.

http://archive.gipsa.usda.gov/reference-library/standards/lentils.pdf


--- On Tue, 2/9/10, Debbie McDonald <lbirke1@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Debbie McDonald <lbirke1@yahoo.com>
Subject: [Livingontheland] weevils in beans/lentils?
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 1:55 PM

I rinsed some lentils and beans today and guess who floated up. They are dead but it is weevils. Must I throw all this out or feed it to the animals or would you think it is allright to rinse till they are gone and cook it? I can feed it to the chicken and maybe the wild birds will eat it otherwise. I was lax in getting buckets in time and putting it with DE:( 

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