Category: Plants
Marigolds
I have heard that planting marigolds in your garden will keep deer away. I tried it. The deer ate my marigolds.
Bananas
Bananas do not grow on trees, they grow on big herb plants.
Largest Seeds
The world’s largest seeds weigh as much as 40 pounds each and although they look like coconuts, they are up to three times larger. They are from a rare type of palm tree.
Worst Flower

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Penicillin
From all our exposure to unnecessary penicillin through medication as well as through treatment of cattle and pork, life-threatening bacteria have grown resistant to our number-one line of defense. In 1960, 13 percent of staphylococci infections were resistant to penicillin. Now, 91 percent are resistant to penicillin.
Plant DNA
Many garden plants have more DNA in each of their cells than we do in ours.
Composition of DNA
It seems amazing that the little-tiny chains of DNA in each cell of your body contain the complete blueprints for your whole self. Even more amazing, scientists have determined that only 1 percent of that DNA seems to contain all the information for building, repair, fighting diseases and so on, and the other 99 percent has no known function!
