Fran Farmer said:
On 12/06/2014 11:42 PM, Drew Lawson wrote:

I wish the warnings about walnut trees were fiction, but that is
another topic (and the neighbor's tree).

I've not heard of any warnings about walnut trees so can you
explain
what they may be please?

Walnuts release an allelopathic chemical that can cause problems
with many favorite garden plants (both flowers and vegetables).
The syptoms are called 'walnut wilt' and tomatoes in particular
are known to fall victim to it. The chemical is juglone, and is found
in the leaves, fruit hulls, bark and, perhaps most problematically,
the roots.

http://extension.umd.edu/learn/walnut-wilt
http://www.hfrr.ksu.edu/doc1742.ashx
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