In the 1800s, Jersey Island Was Covered With 12-Foot-Tall Kale(atlasobscura.com) |
In the 1800s, Jersey Island Was Covered With 12-Foot-Tall Kale(atlasobscura.com) |
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They grow great in California (and places with a similar climate), producing harvestable leaves year round.
(TBC: Love hobby gardening, community gardens are cool, I hear some folks are doing cool stuff with urban agriculture, just seems weird to imagine it as a ubiquitous second career)
"Brassica oleracea is a plant species that includes many common cultivars, such as cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, Brussels sprouts, collard greens, Savoy cabbage, kohlrabi, and gai lan."
I don’t know why I enjoy that fact so much but I sure do!
As to walking sticks, haven’t seen them used for that here, but people do use the dried stems as trellises for beans and whatnot.
How is it with plant genetics / breeding and taxonomy? When do you assert that something's a specific variety and apply a name to it?
But I’ve had a small garden for years and it’s 100% not worth it due to the small yield and extremely high labor.
And just because you have a small garden does not mean agricultural pests are easily managed… in fact they are still absolutely a massive problem.
Big farms are 100% better suited at growing crops. An hour I spend on my garden is probably only 30 seconds on a large farm if you compare on yield.
Before we annoy any islanders, Jersey is not actually part of the UK.
More broadly, it's quite rare that things are this way round - usually when there's not much context the US interpretation applies more often than not.
Jersey isn't part of the UK, but it's not exactly an independent country either.
If international diplomacy and constitutional law interests you, it's quite interesting.
Jersey is an autonomous, self governing Bailiwick and a Dependency of the Crown. It has an ISO country code and TLD, however the UK is responsible for representing the territory internationally in most cases, including at the UN. This is because the Crown delegates that responsibility to Her Majesty's Government. Jersey has no representation within the UK democracy itself and cannot sign international agreements independently, however it informally has relationships with lots of international bodies and other countries including the UK. Jersey has never been part of the EU and remains its own customs area. There are millions of other little warts and curious edge cases.
As someone from Jersey, I never quite know what to answer when someone asks what country I'm from.
So when do Jersey, Guernsey & Sark field their own Football and Rugby teams like England, Scotland & Wales, its not like the off-shore tax havens cant afford the talent!
Still I wonder what the vitamin K content is like for these 12ft plants and if they are any good for PotLikker?
"Billing itself as the green heart of the plains, Big Cabbage boasts The Biggest Cabbage in the World, which turns out to be a building erected in stressed concrete to look like a hundred-foot high cabbage, in which a multitude of cabbage-related ideas may be wondered at, bought, and taken home as souvenirs of an exciting holiday. Cabbage Beer may be bought, as can cabbage cigars, rolled on the inner thighs of alluring young local maidens."
But like sibling says, it can only play in English leagues.
Also the thing about being a tax haven is that the government doesn't capture a huge percentage of the revenue flowing through it. The government is by no means poor, but it's not filthy rich either (unlike some of the inhabitants).