Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Pumpkin Lady <pumpkingal@clearwire.net>]

Tradingpost wrote:

> A sideline: Barb just showed me a Dr. Oz 
> segment on the tube where they stated 
> lycopene in tomatoes is better in tomato 
> sauce. Anyone hear anything on that? 

It all depends on who you talk to. There was a study a few 
years back that said that dehydrated tomatoes were higher.

I have read stuff that says that you absorb more of it when 
it's cooked in something with some fat such as meat fat or 
olive oil.

Here's one place, although it's not where I originally read it.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/content/ETO_5_3X_Lycopene.asp

There are some people breeding high lycopene tomatoes, and 
supposedly grape and plum red tomatoes are higher in 
lycopene than "average".

I saw some people touting silverberry fruit as having more 
lycopene that tomatoes, but I don't think I've seen absolute 
data on it.

http://www.nature.org/wherewework/northamerica/states/indiana/misc/art23197.html


Silverberry is listed as drought tolerant in my area (I get 
a little more rain than you do, but not like "normal" 
areas), and I plan to buy and plant some this year. It won't 
kill the goats if they chow down on it, so I can replace the 
drought tolerant but not goat safe shrubbery with it. If it 
does well, I will get more and use it as part of the dust 
break/living privacy plant hedge I wish to put in my back field.


Morgan