Re: Toxicity of sunflower hulls -Reply
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Toxicity of sunflower hulls -Reply
- From: D* K*
- Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 20:27:40 -0800
What's allelopathic? Doreen
>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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