I found one growing in a wooded area behind my house, it used to be part of the gardens here 20 years ago before it was abandoned. The ground is covered with English ivy, periwinkle, ditch lilies, crocuses, and who knows what else. It rarely gets any sun, and as you can see, it's not harmed. It's a little scraggly, but it's blooming like crazy.

I suggest you do a google search for Farmer Says He Grows World's Longest Green Chile since we are not allowed to post url. Sweet and mild or hot and spicy, New Mexico chile farmers grow peppers for all taste buds. But one man in Hatch says the size of his peppers are breaking world records. "See this one here's 13, 14 inches," said Jim Lytle, as he picked fresh peppers from his 100-acre chile field. "I had one 17 inches." Lytle said he knew he grew the world's longest chile the moment he laid eyes on the enormously long peppers. "Yippee! I was really happy we had a new record to do it with. And then I got to looking in the field and found out that we had a lot more," Lytle said. The unusually large length does not affect the taste or quality of the product, he said. Instead, it simply adds eye appeal for customers, Lytle said. "That's one big chile," said a man purchasing the peppers at a nearby store. One measures about 15.5 inches from top of the stem to the bottom, breaking the current record of 13 inches set by Lytle's mother in 1988.

Here's the Snopes info on Corning/Pyrex. Hope there's something in here that helps. Here is a link that might be useful: Snopes on pyrex/Corning

Well Debi, you have waited a day. How about the guy without much mulch mental muscle taking a swing at it? You aren't wanting to pull back that thick mulch and sow seed below it, right? Your mulch won't know the difference between weed & flower seed if it ends up over the top of it, at some point. Use of mulch on grass seed is probably at a minimal not suppression level. Here is what I've seen people do. They have replaced some of their mulch with potting soil in strategic areas. There, they have sown seeds. Steve