At last, after fighting a losing battle with the stuff. I have found a use
for it. My new rescued tortoise considers it a delicacy. It is his favourite
grub next to dandelion and sow thistle. He pulls great swathes of it down
and chomps away with gusto all day long. Marvellous job. I am considering
hiring him out to keen gardeners at a reasonable cost and anticipate huge
demand.
Get your names down on the list now to avoid disappointment ;-)

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"pammyT" fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote in message
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At last, after fighting a losing battle with the stuff. I have found a use
for it. My new rescued tortoise considers it a delicacy. It is his
favourite
grub next to dandelion and sow thistle. He pulls great swathes of it down
and chomps away with gusto all day long. Marvellous job. I am considering
hiring him out to keen gardeners at a reasonable cost and anticipate huge
demand.
Get your names down on the list now to avoid disappointment ;-)

--
Great. Now can you train him to eat ground elder?

Steve

"shazzbat" wrote in message
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"pammyT" fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote in message
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At last, after fighting a losing battle with the stuff. I have found a
use
for it. My new rescued tortoise considers it a delicacy. It is his
favourite
grub next to dandelion and sow thistle. He pulls great swathes of it
down
and chomps away with gusto all day long. Marvellous job. I am
considering
hiring him out to keen gardeners at a reasonable cost and anticipate
huge
demand.
Get your names down on the list now to avoid disappointment ;-)

--
Great. Now can you train him to eat ground elder?

Steve


Eat it yourself :0) It was brought over by the Romans as a food source.
When in Brittanicus, do as the Romans do .

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"pammyT" fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote in message
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At last, after fighting a losing battle with the stuff. I have found a use
for it. My new rescued tortoise considers it a delicacy. It is his
favourite
grub next to dandelion and sow thistle. He pulls great swathes of it down
and chomps away with gusto all day long. Marvellous job. I am considering
hiring him out to keen gardeners at a reasonable cost and anticipate huge
demand.
Get your names down on the list now to avoid disappointment ;-)

Great. Now can you train him to eat ground elder?

Why? It makes a good green vegetable - try it sometime. The young leaves
are best, and before it has flowered. Later, cut the lot down and pick
the fresh growth.

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"pammyT" fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote in message
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At last, after fighting a losing battle with the stuff. I have found a use
for it. My new rescued tortoise considers it a delicacy. It is his
favourite
grub next to dandelion and sow thistle. He pulls great swathes of it down
and chomps away with gusto all day long. Marvellous job. I am considering
hiring him out to keen gardeners at a reasonable cost and anticipate huge
demand.
Get your names down on the list now to avoid disappointment ;-)

--
purebred poultry
www.geocities.com/fenlandfowl


They love the flowers too.

Umm. Isn't Morning Glory related to bindweed? Morning Glory seeds have
some "interesting" properties so is there any chance your tortoise is
getting high on the bindweed?

Pity my garden's fairly large. The rate it grows, the bindweed would have
flowered before tortoise reached it ;-).

Paul DS.

In article ,
Paul D.Smith wrote:
Umm. Isn't Morning Glory related to bindweed? Morning Glory seeds have
some "interesting" properties so is there any chance your tortoise is
getting high on the bindweed?

I think that you will find that is a story comparable to the one that
says that banana skins are hallucinogenic.

Pity my garden's fairly large. The rate it grows, the bindweed would have
flowered before tortoise reached it ;-).

Get a bigger and faster tortoise?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
Paul D.Smith wrote:
Umm. Isn't Morning Glory related to bindweed? Morning Glory seeds
have some "interesting" properties so is there any chance your
tortoise is getting high on the bindweed?

I think that you will find that is a story comparable to the one that
says that banana skins are hallucinogenic.

Pity my garden's fairly large. The rate it grows, the bindweed
would have flowered before tortoise reached it ;-).

Get a bigger and faster tortoise?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Idea...

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P...2.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

In article ,
"Miss Perspicacia Tick" writes:
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| Pity my garden's fairly large. The rate it grows, the bindweed
| would have flowered before tortoise reached it ;-).
|
| Get a bigger and faster tortoise?
|
| Idea...
|
| http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P...2.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Precisely. One could also then persuade the government to subsidise
the project as a new approach to sustainable transport - after all,
they don't seem to have any ideas that are even as plausible.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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In article ,
Paul D.Smith wrote:
Umm. Isn't Morning Glory related to bindweed? Morning Glory seeds have
some "interesting" properties so is there any chance your tortoise is
getting high on the bindweed?

I think that you will find that is a story comparable to the one that
says that banana skins are hallucinogenic.

No, morning glory seeds are - interesting.

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those who don't.
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shazzbat wrote:
"pammyT" fenlandfowl @talktalk.net wrote in message
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At last, after fighting a losing battle with the stuff. I have found a use
for it. My new rescued tortoise considers it a delicacy. It is his

favourite

grub next to dandelion and sow thistle. He pulls great swathes of it down
and chomps away with gusto all day long. Marvellous job. I am considering
hiring him out to keen gardeners at a reasonable cost and anticipate huge
demand.
Get your names down on the list now to avoid disappointment ;-)

--

Great. Now can you train him to eat ground elder?

Steve


Guinea pigs do that ...

In article , fenlandfowl
@talktalk.net (pammyT) wrote:

My new rescued tortoise considers it a delicacy.

When I was a kid, we had a tortoise that was very partial to buttercup
flowers

Steve Harris - Cheltenham - Real address steve AT netservs DOT com
A useful bit of gardening software at http://www.netservs.com/garden/

"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Paul D.Smith wrote:
Umm. Isn't Morning Glory related to bindweed? Morning Glory seeds have
some "interesting" properties so is there any chance your tortoise is
getting high on the bindweed?

I think that you will find that is a story comparable to the one that
says that banana skins are hallucinogenic.

Pity my garden's fairly large. The rate it grows, the bindweed would have
flowered before tortoise reached it ;-).

Get a bigger and faster tortoise?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

The bigger they are the slower they get. IME.

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from (Nick Maclaren) contains these words:
In article ,
"Miss Perspicacia Tick" writes:
|
| Pity my garden's fairly large. The rate it grows, the bindweed
| would have flowered before tortoise reached it ;-).
|
| Get a bigger and faster tortoise?
|
| Idea...
|
| http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P...2.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Precisely. One could also then persuade the government to subsidise
the project as a new approach to sustainable transport - after all,
they don't seem to have any ideas that are even as plausible.

Got to be military before you have much chance of that.

See http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/temp/halbritter/

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Get a bigger and faster tortoise?


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

The bigger they are the slower they get. IME.

Nonsense! See the URL I just posted...

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