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Re: [SG] before you plant sunflower seeds...

At 11:01 PM 3/28/98 -0800, you wrote:
>> Before planting sunflowers, you shold know that they emit a toxin from
>> their roots which can choke out and kill surrounding plants.
>
>Nope, it's the seed hulls with the allelopathic chemicals
>
>Kay Lancaster    kay@fern.com
>just west of Portland, OR; USDA zone 8 (polarfleece)

So that is why I have trouble growing things near or under my bird feeders!
Thanks for the information


Carolyn Quinnell Bryson, Indianapolis, Zone 5
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