Welcome to episode 224 of Growers Daily!

We cover: today we're catching up on some of my field trials, What people get wrong about carbon dioxide, and curing and storing winter squash.

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MIT article on plants and absorbing CO2: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/dont-plants-do-better-environments-very-high-co2

Yale article on Carbon Thresholds: https://e360.yale.edu/features/how-the-world-passed-a-carbon-threshold-400ppm-and-why-it-matters

Ocean acidification from co2: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/science/oysters-farming-acidic-ocean-climate-change.html

Water vapor: https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/why-do-we-blame-climate-change-carbon-dioxide-when-water-vapor-much-more-common-greenhouse

good breakdown of the saturation myth: https://skepticalscience.com/saturated-co2-effect.htm

Higher CO2 can decrease nutrient levels in plants: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S221457452400097X

Squash video: https://studio.youtube.com/video/BMJeFiTql7U/edit

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