Comments on: Broccoli / Pacman

sbl_admin · 06-26-2007, 12:50 PM

Reader comments and feedback for the Broccoli / Pacman photo.
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Isaac-Saxxon · 06-26-2007, 12:52 PM

This is a new group so all you folks that like to garden please jump in be it flowers or veggies. My favorite is a fall garden and I will post more on that later.

rhertz · 06-26-2007, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Isaac-Saxxon

This is a new group so all you folks that like to garden please jump in be it flowers or veggies. My favorite is a fall garden and I will post more on that later.

The Green Giant huh? LOL, Isaac do you remember these commercials?

Isaac-Saxxon · 06-26-2007, 01:59 PM

Meet the new and improved Green Giant

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note the flowing vines and large hands this is a real giant. Like the one that Jack knew.

Isaac-Saxxon · 06-26-2007, 02:34 PM

Broccoli was an Italian vegetable, as its name suggests, long before it was eaten elsewhere. It is first mentioned in France in 1560, but in 1724 broccoli was still so unfamiliar in England that Philip Miller's Gardener's Dictionary (1724 edition) referred to it as a stranger in England and explained it as "sprout colli-flower" or "Italian asparagus." In the American colonies, Thomas Jefferson was also an experimentative gardener with a wide circle of European correspondents, from whom he got packets of seeds for rare vegetables such as tomatoes. He noted the planting of broccoli at Monticello along with radishes, lettuce, and cauliflower on May 27, 1767. Nevertheless, broccoli remained an exotic in American gardens. In 1775, John Randolph, in A Treatise on Gardening by a Citizen of Virginia, felt he had to explain about broccoli: "The stems will eat like Asparagus, and the heads like Cauliflower."

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Good eats

sticks to your teeth

06-26-2007, 12:50 PM	#1
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06-26-2007, 12:52 PM	#2
Isaac-Saxxon SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 4,421 Rep Power: 324	This is a new group so all you folks that like to garden please jump in be it flowers or veggies. My favorite is a fall garden and I will post more on that later. __________________ Maranatha Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

06-26-2007, 01:59 PM	#4
Isaac-Saxxon SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 4,421 Rep Power: 324	Meet the new and improved Green Giant note the flowing vines and large hands this is a real giant. Like the one that Jack knew. __________________ Maranatha Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

06-26-2007, 02:34 PM	#5
Isaac-Saxxon SBLive! Veteran Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 4,421 Rep Power: 324	Broccoli was an Italian vegetable, as its name suggests, long before it was eaten elsewhere. It is first mentioned in France in 1560, but in 1724 broccoli was still so unfamiliar in England that Philip Miller's Gardener's Dictionary (1724 edition) referred to it as a stranger in England and explained it as "sprout colli-flower" or "Italian asparagus." In the American colonies, Thomas Jefferson was also an experimentative gardener with a wide circle of European correspondents, from whom he got packets of seeds for rare vegetables such as tomatoes. He noted the planting of broccoli at Monticello along with radishes, lettuce, and cauliflower on May 27, 1767. Nevertheless, broccoli remained an exotic in American gardens. In 1775, John Randolph, in A Treatise on Gardening by a Citizen of Virginia, felt he had to explain about broccoli: "The stems will eat like Asparagus, and the heads like Cauliflower." Good eats sticks to your teeth __________________ Maranatha Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

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