Habaneros grown in radioactive soil...A new meaning to "hot" chile. Bruce ----- Original Message ----- From: Byron <byronbromley@tellink.net> To: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 2:27 PM Subject: [CH] phytoremediation > In the early 1990's, a New Jersey company planted sunflowers around a badly > polluted pond near the Chernobyl nuclear plant.The plants removed 95 per > cent of the radioactive strontium in the soil"