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Old 04-06-2011, 05:43 AM posted to rec.gardens.edible
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Default Potatoes in my border

"Billy" wrote in message
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In article ,
songbird wrote:

Billy wrote:
godkingross wrote:

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I could not advise you to eat them, although i'll tell you i'd
probably
eat them unless they're growing near spilt oil or chemicals, a septic
tank, stagnant water, some animal/s corpse/s or fresh animal feces,
because i'm so tight-fisted.
I suppose they COULD be potentially be harmful... you never know what
the previous tenants have chucked in that soil, but that'd still be
the
case if you'd have decided to grow your own potatoes in there. but i
suppose as the e coli outbreak in Europe proves, shop bought veggies
COULD be potentially harmful too.

Songbird,
I believe this is your cue.


?


songbird


I thought we had agreed that you would be the patron saint of the
clueless, and deranged usenet travelers who found themselves in
"wrecked gardens", instead of David and I savaging them. I believe the
above qualifies. The the OP gives no clues as to the environment of the
"feral" potatoes except that they are in some kind of border, and
responding poster never tries to ascertain possible pollutants, but
instead rattles off a shopping list of possible dangers, blatantly
leaving out "radioactive waste".

Requesting information as to the length of occupancy and chemicals
applied could have shed some light on the puzzle. "A septic
tank, stagnant water, some animal/s corpse/s or fresh animal feces"
don't really enter in to it unless the OP plans on eating the potatoes
raw.

I think my curmudgeoning here is done.


LOL. But done well.


 
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