Toxicity of sunflower hulls -Reply
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- Subject: Toxicity of sunflower hulls -Reply
- From: S* S*
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 12:01:04 -0800
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Sunflower hulls are allelopathic (try saying that fast
five times) to MOST plants. This is in my personal
experience, not just what I've read. I started buying
sunflower chips, already hulled and in broken
pieces. Little more expensive, but they last
FOREVER because there is no waste. In fact my
big feeders I don't even fill 1/2 way now, it takes
them so long to finish that.
Another cure is to have stones or steps under
feeders (which helps for clean shoes too), but then
you have to clean them up. I have been happiest
since I've switched to chips.
>>> Don Martinson <dmartin@post.its.mcw.edu>
10/27/98 12:09pm >>>
Does anyone know anything regarding the toxicity
(if any) of sunflower
hulls, particularly in regard to germinating seeds or
established plants.
I'm concerned regarding their accumulation
underneath a bird feeder (now
relocated).
Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
d*@post.its.mcw.edu
"Existing order thrives upon ignorance and lies.
Objective truth and individual reason are feared
above all."
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