[Sca-cooks] OT - A little history

[Terry Decker]

The first nine paragraphs of Chapter II, On Cookery, cover the garden.  The
particular entry in in paragraph five, outlining when to sow various crops.
The is:  "At the full moon (March-April), aniseeds, bleets, skirrets,
succory, fennel, apples of love (tomatoes), and marvelous apples (balsam
apples)."

Bear

>>   Hess says it is in Hus-Wife which makes sense it is usually the wife
>> who is responsible for the Kitchen Garden.  Markham wrote both.  I have
>> read a handful of his books about 15 years ago but never Hus-wife.
>
>There is no more than a mention of a kitchen garden in Markham's Hus-wife.
>Gardening is covered much more extensively in his English Husbandman.
>
>-- Pani Jadwiga Zajaczkowa, Knowledge Pika   jenne at fiedlerfamily.net