Re: Toxicity of sunflower hulls
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- Subject: Re: Toxicity of sunflower hulls
- From: "* G* <r*@mtaonline.net>
- Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 19:15:51 -0900
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Dear Margaret,
Sunflower seeds contain a allelopathic substance which is leached into the
soil after
rains, it can inhibit some plants that are suceptible and some grasses.
Black Walnuts have the substance in even larger quanities that is why very
few plants grow under them.
Rhonda Williams
Recluse Gardens, Wasilla, Alaska
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> From: Margaret Schnall <skywise@javanet.com>
> To: seeds-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Toxicity of sunflower hulls
> Date: Tuesday, October 27, 1998 9:38 AM
>
> It depends on the plant you are trying to grow under the feeder. I
> understand that grasses are the least affected.
>
> At 02:09 PM 10/27/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >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."
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
