"You’re not gardening to say 'Look at my beautiful garden.' You are gardening because you have this relationship with this plant. We’re carrying each other this year."
It hit the nail on the head when she said "It’s so fun to eat and so beautiful, but what the heck were people doing with it in Isfahan?". Just watched a blog about rural Japan where they went to buy seedlings for their family run cafe garden and there were 20 + varieties off eggplant/aubergine because each one is used in preference for a particular dish or cooking style and the same goes for the preferred typed of pumpkin.
Wow, amazing. Thank you for sharing! I have read similar things about apple varieties in old Maine: like 8 different trees where the fruit was used in 8 different ways.
It hit the nail on the head when she said "It’s so fun to eat and so beautiful, but what the heck were people doing with it in Isfahan?". Just watched a blog about rural Japan where they went to buy seedlings for their family run cafe garden and there were 20 + varieties off eggplant/aubergine because each one is used in preference for a particular dish or cooking style and the same goes for the preferred typed of pumpkin.
https://youtu.be/ulhD2AE0L-Q?si=Yfqg-l9IUZ0S6-kh
Wow, amazing. Thank you for sharing! I have read similar things about apple varieties in old Maine: like 8 different trees where the fruit was used in 8 different ways.
This is such a beautiful idea -- and the name! Chef's kiss! As soon as I get my garden back from the construction project, I want to participate.
I found three strawberry popcorn ears in a jar in an antique store, not labeled. How shall we grow them? If we do, then what?