Re: Potato

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• Date: Thu, 12 Mar 1998 02:40:19 +1300
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> From: Michael D. Cook <mikecook@pipeline.com>
> To: veggie-list@eskimo.com
> Subject: Re: Potato 
> Date: Thursday, March 12, 1998 10:53 AM
> 
> At 08:27 AM 3/11/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >     Can any body help me out here?  I have heard about straw, and even
> >newsprint (will the ink hurt anything).  
> >
> Hi, Stan.  You can plant potatoes entirely in straw (no soil needed).  I
> have not heard of using newspaper, but there is nothing in the ink to
hurt
> the plants or those who consume them - the ink is soy-based nowadays.


Peaple should be aware that it is the bleach chemicals used to make
newsprint white that is considered suspicion. 

Regards  Ian Gill
                            Westland New Zealand.

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