Guest guest Posted October 15, 2000 Report Share Posted October 15, 2000 "In January, a village dame dug up her new potatoes she had sown in September, as though for a wager. I was contented with turnip tops in February and with planting early Lextonian peas, intermediate carrots and a second crop of broad beans. It was a great time for self-seeded vegatables. I ususally leave some few of my stock to run to seed, nature's planting fetching up seedlings twice as strong and healthy as man's. In this way I got a hundred lusty calabresse plants from one old winter matron! and had nothing to do buit set them in rows when the time came. I did the same with seakale beet, than which no food-plant is more valuable in a small holding. It was originally a hybrid of perennial spinach beet and sugar beet, and it was a friend of mine who first sent it to Reading with the recommendation that it was probably the best fodder crop in existence. In France he used to keep cattle and sheep on it all winter and the cattle he fed on it gave as much winter milk as summer milk." (H.J. Massingham) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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