SC - Need help with "Compost"

[LrdRas at aol.com]

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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