[Sca-cooks]2 - medieval herb garden
Pixel, Goddess and Queen
pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com
Sun Jun 29 10:03:46 PDT 2003
> >
> > Also....does anyone on this list have a medieval themed garden or herb
> > garden at their home? I don't as yet, but I am reading a book called
> > _The Medieval Garden_ and am in the process of planning one......
> >
> > I am so enjoying cutting fresh herbs for cooking.
> >
> > Phillipa
I don't have a medieval themed herb garden, mostly because I have a lot of
pots and a small plot right next to the house. I have a red currant bush,
a black currant bush, lots of raspberries, a Rosa alba (which is finally
flowering, yay!) and lots of mint (spearmint, peppermint, ginger mint,
apple mint, chocolate mint). I'm trying to grow weld, for dyeing,
but the raspberries and mint seem to be shading it a bit too much for it
to be shooting up to the heights. I tried lavendar, and it seems to have
kinda sorta come back, but it's not doing well against the mint.
In pots I have a lot of New World stuff--tomatoes and peppers and squash,
and then peas, and an eggplant, and lots and lots of basils. My sweetie's
parents are discussing turning a useless bit of his yard into a larger
garden, so I'm nudging him on that score because then I would actually
have the space to grow more stuff. At the moment he has chives and the
infamous bunny-eating sage.
Oh, and I have autumn crocus in the front window box, which has marigolds
in it at the moment as well because I didn't want to be looking at blank
dirt all summer long. So we'll see if I actually manage to harvest any
saffron this fall.
If all goes well with the auxiliary garden, I may try to plant a
grapevine for verjuice.
WRT hedges--there's a historical site in (I think) Wiltshire, although it
may be Somerset) by the name of Donington Le Heath, which started life as
a 13th c. manor and got re-done at various times during its life. It's
mostly late 16th or thereabouts, at this point. And they've got a maze
that when we were there, in 2000, was just planted. They've used rosemary
for the hedge-y bits, and in that climate it grows to huge proportions. So
maybe rosemary for the hedges? Practical AND useful.
Margaret
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