Re: Odd reference to potatoes
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- Subject: Re: Odd reference to potatoes
- From: M* T*
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 04:55:20 -0500
Interesting thought, Paul, but I wonder as I never noticed any other
members of this family discouraging weeds when I grew them...seemed
to be nice nurse crops for any number of noxious weeds or any other
seed in the vicinity:-) Spent untold hours weeding tomatoes,
eggplants, potatoes, etc.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Meum71@aol.com
> Date: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 4:19 AM
>
> Marge you are most likely right, but then again I will step on some
thin ice
> here.
>
> But please remember I am only make a guess, I cannot back this up
with any
> data at this time.
>
> Potatoes I am sure produce some of the same chemicals that other
members of
> the Tomato family produce and a number of them are toxic to other
plants.
>
> Plants have made a living, so to speak, out of poising each other
and insects
> and some times even myself.
>
> Paul
>
>
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