Red kidney beans are very toxic, only use tinned ones in slow cookers as they dont get hot enough to kill the toxin, under cooked are worse than raw!
Or soak dried kidney beans in plenty of water for 12 hours, then rinse and give them a ten minute fast boil in a saucepan before adding them to the slow cooker.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Agree with Verdun that if we grew nothing toxic in the garden - we'd have little left to look at beyond grass, veg & roses.
I do find all the health warnings that now come on everything to be getting quite ridiculous. I am particularly hacked off that I can no longer buy chicken with giblets in at the supermarket because so many people cooked them with the plastic bag still inside
With plants it's just a case of being aware what's suitable for your circumstances - I don't grow tiger lilies because the pollen can be highly toxic to my cat but I grow everything else & just give it the respect it deserves.
I'm assuming the heads up about aconitum follows on from the death of the poor gardener reported this week - it is a beautiful family of plants but I will certainly handle them a bit more carefully in the future....
Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Yes, notwithstanding the need for commonsense, it does seem that in recent years fear in all walks of life has taken over with Health & Safety having gone a bit mad
Perhaps what it comes down to isthat birth itself - whether of people or of ideas - should come with a health warning: 'Beware of life: danger of death'.
Hope that's not too 'heavy' but I do know that when I look back at the things I got wrong in my life, my biggest mistakes have arisen from being afraid of getting things wrong!
Most plants are poisonous and have naturally evolved to be so. Humans have specifically bred toxicity out of many, many cultivated plants. One should assume a plant is poisonous unless the label (or your own research) shows otherwise and you can't really go wrong. Teach this to your children. As a gardener who embraces nature I will not stop growing anything just because it might be toxic - to do so would be, well, unnatural!
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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Red kidney beans are very toxic, only use tinned ones in slow cookers as they dont get hot enough to kill the toxin, under cooked are worse than raw!
Runner beans are fine when they are young and green. It's the beans inside that are toxic when mature, unless cooked.
Or soak dried kidney beans in plenty of water for 12 hours, then rinse and give them a ten minute fast boil in a saucepan before adding them to the slow cooker.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
As Joe Jackson once sang "Everything gives you cancer, there's no cure, there's no answer."
We can get far too worried about every day life.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Agree with Verdun that if we grew nothing toxic in the garden - we'd have little left to look at beyond grass, veg & roses.
I do find all the health warnings that now come on everything to be getting quite ridiculous. I am particularly hacked off that I can no longer buy chicken with giblets in at the supermarket because so many people cooked them with the plastic bag still inside
With plants it's just a case of being aware what's suitable for your circumstances - I don't grow tiger lilies because the pollen can be highly toxic to my cat but I grow everything else & just give it the respect it deserves.
I'm assuming the heads up about aconitum follows on from the death of the poor gardener reported this week - it is a beautiful family of plants but I will certainly handle them a bit more carefully in the future....
Yes, notwithstanding the need for commonsense, it does seem that in recent years fear in all walks of life has taken over with Health & Safety having gone a bit mad
Perhaps what it comes down to is that birth itself - whether of people or of ideas - should come with a health warning: 'Beware of life: danger of death'.
Hope that's not too 'heavy' but I do know that when I look back at the things I got wrong in my life, my biggest mistakes have arisen from being afraid of getting things wrong!
Hopefully, I still have time to learn from that.
Runner and broad beans don't get a chance to grow old when I'm about. I do prefer fruit when it's really ripe though.
We all need to apply a bit of " common sense " otherwise we wouldn't grow anything
I also think that gardeners generally have a bit of common sense which does seem to be lacking in some people
Most plants are poisonous and have naturally evolved to be so. Humans have specifically bred toxicity out of many, many cultivated plants. One should assume a plant is poisonous unless the label (or your own research) shows otherwise and you can't really go wrong. Teach this to your children. As a gardener who embraces nature I will not stop growing anything just because it might be toxic - to do so would be, well, unnatural!