in article , Jane Ransom at
wrote on 5/2/03 7:33 pm:

In article , sacha
writes
I'm pretty sure they'll tell you that nobody has died of
poison by plants in umpteen and a half years.

A rather adventurous friend of mine, when he recently dug up his french
beans, decided that french bean roots looked really appetising. He duly
scrubbed em and boiled em up and ate em. Said they tasted delicious.
Then he spent the next three or four days in a very sorry state. He
didn't die but he was extremely uncomfortable and very worried at
times!!!

I'm sure that in the past people have been tempted to eat rhubarb stalks and
use up the leaves......blurghhhh etc. etc.! If you don't respect nature, she
was a way of making you do so. That's why I think the original poster,
being a novice gardener was both wise and sensible to make enquiries. You
don't know until you know.
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.co.uk