"Don Roberto" > wrote in message
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> 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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>>> : > On 08/16/2015 01:55 PM, Ian Field wrote:
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>>> : >>> On 08/16/2015 08:50 AM, Ian Field wrote:
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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.
>>
>> 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"?

Its a bit optimistic to hope for what might eventually be trees to be
recognisable this soon.

I've posted a WANTED on a free recycling group for any leftover veg seeds -
there ought to be some tangible evidence before I conk out.