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I read somewhere ages ago that Nasturtium are poisonous to dogs! Just wondering if its true, or a load of rubbish?
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Well- my chooks ate most of my seeds I'd left to germinate!!!- and they're OK!
..just in case anyone wondered about chooks!!
At least you know now they're OK thanks to Zazen!!
"Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple
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All I know is that the leaves add a nice peppery taste to salads. The flowers can be used in the same salad to add a bit of colour and if that's not enough the seed pods when pickled make a useful caper substitute and are nice on pitza's and in salads!
They grow easily and are good among the cabbages as a sacrificial plant.
And apart from all that......they can be quite decorative and conserve moisture around other plants with their leaf canopy!
My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
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They're good sacrificial plants too for cabbage white butterflies, I had quite a few caterpillars on mine but the nasturtiums are so prolific it didn't do much damage. My cabbages were all netted to be on the safe side but I didn't seem to get any problems with cabbage leaves too near the netting.
SueComment
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They're fantastic to eat - for people. So generally speaking they'll be ok for dogs. (Great excepton to the above is CHOCOLATE)Whoever plants a garden believes in the future.
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I think it was the seeds that I read were poisonous, just goes to prove you mustn't believe everything you read on the net Thanks all
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