On 8/18/2015 1:47 PM, Ian Field wrote:
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> "W. Baker" > wrote in message
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>> Ian Field > wrote:
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>> : "T" > wrote in message
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>> : > On 08/16/2015 01:55 PM, Ian Field wrote:
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>> : >> "T" > wrote in message
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>> : >>> On 08/16/2015 08:50 AM, Ian Field wrote:
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>> : >>>> "T" > wrote in message
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>> : >>>>> On 08/15/2015 01:10 PM, Ian Field wrote:
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>> : >>>>>> "T" > wrote in message
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>> : >>>>>>> Hi Ian,
>> : >>>>>>>
>> : >>>>>>> If you haven't done you soup/broth test in your slow
>> : >>>>>>> cooker, in addition to your vegi's, toss in a dried
>> : >>>>>>> Chimayo (New Mexico Red) chili pepper. Break off the
>> : >>>>>>> end and pour out the seeds, or it will be very hot.
>> : >>>>>>
>> : >>>>>> Now I'm wondering what mischief I can get up to with a pile
>> of hot
>> : >>>>>> chilli seeds!
>> : >>>>>
>> : >>>>> Chuckle!
>> : >>>>>
>> : >>>>> Grind them up! Throw the powder on your lawn. It
>> : >>>>> makes a excellent cat repellent.
>> : >>>>
>> : >>>> Apparently; if you spice the food put out for the birds - it
>> stops the
>> : >>>> squirrels pinching it.
>> : >>>
>> : >>> Perfect! I read that birds are not affected by hot peppers.
>> : >>> This one I have got to remember!
>> : >>
>> : >> That's what I have been told, but I live in a flat with no garden
>> and no
>> : >> opportunity to try it out.
>> : >
>> : > Do you have a patio? You could get a tomato in a pot. I have
>> : > found cherry Tomatoes are best for this.
>> : >
>> : >
>> : >> Someone dumped a sack of potatoes in the bin room that had
>> started to
>> : >> sprout roots - I cast a few along the hedgerow behind the flats
>> to find
>> : >> out whether they take.
>> : >
>> : > Potatoes are not real good for Diabetics. Does Chayote grow out
>> there?
>> : > (It doesn't here.) It likes to vine all over things. Chayotes are
>> : > Diabetic friendly.
>>
>> : If I had a patio/balcony - I could put a bird table out there.
>>
>> : The sprouting potatoes were just another thing to seed the hedgerow
>> with -
>> : often when I take my rubbish down, I find people have left punnets
>> of fruit
>> : on top of the bins, sometimes I chuck them in the hedgerow in case
>> the seeds
>> : might grow.
>>
>> If those potatos actually take and produce more potatos you can always
>> either give thenm to your neighbors or donate them to the ocal food bank
>> for the poor adn hungry.
>>
>> The exercise of planting addd picking them as well as ay weedign and
>> tendiing will be a godsend for your diabetes, helping keep the numbers
>> down.
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> I'd get some funny looks if I started tending the hedgerow behind the
> flats - its just an experiment to see what grows, I have no control over
> who helps themselves to any produce.
>
> I keep a little tub for the pips/pits from any fruit I have, there's a
> line of woods along a cycle track I use every day - that's been seeded
> with quite a variety over the past few years.

Do you recognize anything growing there that may have originated in your
"little tub"?

Don Roberto