Re: Odd reference to potatoes
Speaking of the nightshade family, I've always found it (interesting?)
that elements of Nicotiana are used in several different insecticides,
yet Nicotiana plants are always the first to become infested with aphids
and a host of other things. There must be something in the processing
that the bugs aren't getting in the raw form.
Dean Sliger
Warren, MI, USA
Zone 6B
Marge Talt wrote:
> 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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