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Moving into a house with Foxgloves?

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  • Why be sorry? we are only trying to help it is very difficult this gardening lark. The computer is good though for looking up plants.  Just buy the house if foxgloves are all you are worried about. Bye the way green potatoes are cancerous for humans so be careful.

     

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    Snap, Dove.image

    Did they prove that eating green potatoes whilst pregnant was the cause of Spina Bifida, or was that just a scare story.?

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139
    Lyn wrote (see)

    Snap, Dove.image

    Did they prove that eating green potatoes whilst pregnant was the cause of Spina Bifida, or was that just a scare story.?

    I remember that Lyn, it was on Woman's Hour years ago - I was particularly careful when I was pregnant. 

    Seems that link has been disproved now https://www.fsai.ie/faq/green_potatoes.html

    However, green potatoes aren't good for you image

    Pansyface - it came from an Irish website ....... someone had obviously kissed the Blarneystone image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117

    Matthew - don't let the scaremongering media whip you into submission. It's mainly common sense. There are loads more dangerous scenarios inside the house than outside image

    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Estate agents and solicitors are far more dangerous!

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,139

    Not to mention insurance companies!!!!!!!!!! image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • House hunting isn't fun. We gave up and just bought an offplan newbuild instead. There is going to be nothing in our garden when we move in.

  • WateryWatery Posts: 388

    It was a common Agatha Christie plot for someone to put digitalis in someone's drink and then put a little bit of foxglove leaves in everyone's salads "by mistake" so most people would get just a little sick and one person would be presumed to be overly sensitive to it.  I don't see how you could mistake a foxglove plant for lettuce though.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,477
    We had noisy neighbours and a small garden at our old house. We bought a large for London garden and two elderly gardening ladies on either side. The house was purely incidental. The elderly ladies have passed away now and I'm a bit deaf. I think that maybe I am now the ageing but not elderly gardening neighbour.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190

    I was fortunate enough to be given this one, I give thanks every single day for that.image

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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