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My young tomato plants have been exposed to fumes in the garage for a week. Will the tomatoes be safe to eat?

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I have been trying to grow my plants organically and set up a grow light system in the garage. The garage has only ever been used for storage until my husband decided to pull his truck in to work on the transmission last weekend. I am worried that all my work will be lost.

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8 Responses to “My young tomato plants have been exposed to fumes in the garage for a week. Will the tomatoes be safe to eat?”

  1. Great Salmon Recipes

    well, as much pesticides they spray on tomatoes i doubt fumes will be much worse

  2. probably not
    i wouldn’t recommend it

  3. The Tomato Shop

    i dnt think so. its like tomatoes being exposed to smoke from a forest fire all week. I’d take them and scrub them clean (to makes sure there is no soot on it) and i’m sure that they will be good.

  4. Great Salmon Recipes

    They will be fine. Like the first poster stated, with all of the growth enhancement chemicals and pesticides they spray on them, fumes from an engine will be fine.

  5. Your tomatoes(if they survive)will be fine to eat.
    Just wash them
    if they were unhealthy looking id discard regardless.

  6. Great Salmon Recipes

    If the fumes are bad for the tomatoe the tomatoes wouldve been killed already, plants are great as they absorb certain pollutants that are naturally bad for us, i wouldnt hesitate in trying one, youd know if it was bad by the taste, i doubt there would be anything wrong with it though. Hey, why dont you get your husband so try it first?

  7. The Tomato Shop

    Actually it’s the leaves that convert CO2 to O so the fruit is fine. Relax it’s not that they were bambarded with olefins or aromatics which many pesticided do contain. (they are the cancer causung agents) The catalytic converter catches most really bad molecules.

  8. The Tomato Shop

    I wouldn’t eat them just to be on the safe side. but after they have fallen off and new ones grow they will be OK to eat.

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