{"id":121049,"date":"2021-07-24T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T05:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tim-dowling-which-courgette-is-the-evil-poisoner-yellow-or-green-tim-dowling\/"},"modified":"2021-07-24T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T05:22:09","slug":"tim-dowling-which-courgette-is-the-evil-poisoner-yellow-or-green-tim-dowling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tim-dowling-which-courgette-is-the-evil-poisoner-yellow-or-green-tim-dowling\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Dowling: which courgette is the evil poisoner, yellow or green? | Tim Dowling"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n\u2018I\u2019ll never eat another courgette in my life,\u2019 the oldest saysThree days after I poisoned myself and my family with homegrown toxic courgettes, I still don\u2019t feel right. I can\u2019t face pulling up six plants and disposing of them, partly because my stomach still pitches and rolls at the sight of courgettes.The poison responsible, I have since learned, is naturally present in courgettes, but can rise to toxic levels if plants cross-pollinate with wild cucurbits or certain types of ornamental squash, causing a bitter taste, nausea, cramps, potential hospitalisation and occasionally death. Now I\u2019ve experienced this poisoning first-hand, it seems weird to me that people are even allowed to grow courgettes. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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\u2018I\u2019ll never eat another courgette in my life,\u2019 the oldest saysThree days after I poisoned...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-vup","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18340,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/modern-tribes-the-allotment-owner\/","url_meta":{"origin":121049,"position":0},"title":"Modern tribes: the allotment owner","date":"July 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r If you don\u2019t like courgette quiche you could do courgette wine, or courgette curry, there\u2019ll be another sackful tomorrow, help yourself Anyone want some home-grown courgettes, fresh picked from the lotty? 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