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dschollar: Still want perennial flax?

cjstajniak — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:26:31 GMT

I have a blue flax perennial or two that I am looking to dig out. It will be easy for me to use a spade on it so that I take up as much dirt as possible. I

Re: green potatoes

Pauline M Gabriel — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:01:47 GMT

... Wow - green potatoe chips and raw potatoes are two of my favourite 'sins'......guess I'm lucky to be alive? lol -- Pauline Gabriel mmouse@...

Re: green potatoes

garden@... — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:25:23 GMT

VERY toxic....actually, raw potatoes are also toxic, just not as much. I worked on potato farms that grew for Hostess.... Anna ... From: mumma jones To:

green potatoes

mumma jones — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 01:21:51 GMT

apparently true - poisonous see http://www.snopes.com/food/ingredient/potato.asp ... From: cjstajniak To:

Re: Gardening question

cjstajniak — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:51:09 GMT

We have always hilled our potatoes to prevent sunburn, which causes the potatoes to turn green. The story in my family is that the potato produces cyanide,

Re: hi all & grafting apple trees

mumma jones — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:09:04 GMT

i'd be interested in learning ... and i'm looking for an apple tree too so if someone has a "sprout" that i could transplant, that would be awesome.

Re: hi all & grafting apple trees

Melinda — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:26:47 GMT

HI Dolly, the concept is right. I took 7 different varieties of apple and grafted them to an apple tree which I didn't like the apples from and was going to

Re: hi all & grafting apple trees

dolorespicard — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:13:29 GMT

Welcome Melinda, I'm not trading too much at the moments, just because of the heat. I was wondering about grafting your apple tree. From what I understand. you

Re: poisonous plant???

three_bad_cats — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:13:19 GMT

... Steam it for supper, that'll learn it a lesson! Likely a vagrant seed came in with some other import from the countryside like those saskatoons of

Re: poisonous plant???

mumma jones — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 15:05:08 GMT

i wonder where the heck the darn things came from.... never had em before.. maybe i haven't been weeding as diligently (ya think?? lol) i hate those darn

Re: poisonous plant???

three_bad_cats — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:27:51 GMT

Yep, that's stinging nettle for sure! They're tasty if you get them young and steam 'em up like spinach! Mmmmmmm... nettles.... Oh yeah, and they lose their

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Lorena Collins — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:06:03 GMT

stinging nettle. Google it, they get sort of a flower, not pretty though. ... From : mumma jones Date : Saturday, June 27, 2009 3:39 pm

poisonous plant???

mumma jones — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 21:39:15 GMT

I've gone out and chopped down some tall plants that I haven't been able to identify yet...they range from about a foot high to about 3 feet high. Each stem

Re: Gardening question

garden@... — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:49:57 GMT

We grow a lot of potatoes...if you hill them, you will get more potatoes per plant, as they send out more shoots at nodes along the stem, and spuds at then end

Gardening question

lorandgre — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 03:41:26 GMT

I'm looking for an opinion. My mom gave me her garden this year to plant because she won't have time - it's huge. I planted some potatoes. I've never had a