SC - Need help with "Compost"
LrdRas at aol.com
LrdRas at aol.com
Wed Oct 6 08:03:04 PDT 1999
In a message dated 10/6/99 1:16:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, stefan at texas.net
writes:
<< Even if the Hamburg Parsley has inferior leaves to the Flatleaf variety
for eating, I believe they would still eat the leaves.>>
Apparently we have a difference of opinion as to how people in the MA lived
their lives. 'Throwing away' something in the MA may not have been equivalent
to putting garbage in a plastic bag for burial somewhere else but throwing it
into the slop bucket certainly was the equivalent. Methinks that you
sometimes pick out a specific phrase without putting it into complete
context. :-)
<<And vice-versa for the Flatleaf parsley. >>
Have you ever grown either forms of Parsley? They roots on regular parsley
are insubstantial and relatively useless as human food. They are also bitter
and bear little resemblance to the roots of Hamburg parsley which is carrot
like and very mush less bitter. As to their availability in most regions of
Europe, they are perfectly hardy and cookery manuals and herbals of the time
refer to both parsley root and regular parsley.
Unfortunately, a complete rundown on period gardening practices (such as
raised beds, medicinal gardens, kitchen gardens, espalier, mass food
cropping, as well as varieties and cultivars) is a subject that is so lengthy
as to be well outside the scope of a short posting to this list. :-(
Ras
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