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9ssue # 75
0At7us1 2000
A housewife coming in from the garden with an apron full ofsucculent
variety is a pleasant sight.."
The Old Farmers
Almanac
ugust is the midpoint of summer, and I can feel the heart
August first is Lammas Day. It
celebrates the beginning of the harvest season and is
Our word cereal is
named for the Roman goddess of grain, Ceres.
f the summer beating.
derived from that word.
In Christian times, the first grains harvested
were offered to the church for use in the sacrament during the liturgy.
There were Lammas Day Festivals and faires in many countries and
some places still celebrate Lammas Day.
The Geddy garden is very productive this year and that success is
due in large to the richness of the soil.
This year my beds were raised
and the soil was improved with the addition of compost. The drainage
and acidity benefited from the attention paid to the beds and the soil.
As Karel Capek wrote in the Gardener' s Year, "
A real gardener is not a
man who cultivates flowers; he is a man who cultivates the soil ....
came into the Garden of Eden he would sniff excitedly and say: '
If he
Good
Lord, what humas! "'
I grew some parsnips in the garden this year, along with lots of
onions, squash, cucumbers, and sweet potatoes. Parsnips were enjoyed
by the colonists. I found an eighteenth -century receipt from a woman in
South Carolina named Rebecca Motte, who
heroine.
became a Revolutionary
When the British took over her plantation and called it Fort
Motte, she chose to have it burned to the ground to rid her house of the
British invaders!
She had the following receipt for mashed parsnips:
Boile six large parsnips in a cast iron kettle, drain and mash them with
a
wooden
spoon.
Remove the stringy fibers.
cream and two tablespoons
teaspoon of pepper.
hard and serve hot."
Add 4 tablespoons of
of butter, one teaspoon
Heat in a saucepan,
remove
of salt and half
from
heat and beat
Parsnips were also included as an ingredient in
the making of marmalade wine in colonial times.
�I was never partial to parsnips, but it was in Ireland that I found
a way to enjoy them. There they mixed parsnips with mashed carrots,
which resulted in a tasty dish.
Parsnips were among the 250 varieties of vegetables that Thomas
Jefferson grew in his 1, 000- foot- long vegetable garden at Monticello.
Jefferson
enjoyed
a vegetable
diet.
He
once
wrote, "
temperately, eating little animal food, and that ...
the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet."
in the month of August, on August 3rd,
I
have
lived
as a condiment
for
Incidentally, it was
1767, to be exact, that Thomas
for his homesite,
Jefferson first mentioned the name " Monticello"
he wrote in his garden book an entry about his
when
cherries in his fruit
garden.
I have enjoyed watching the hummingbirds hovering around the
trumpet vines on the fences.
Humming birds are fascinating to watch.
They remind me of nervous helicopters.
There have been several good garden helpers this summer.
been helped with weeding and watering by Caroline Hollis,
I have
Sara
Finklestein, Phyllis Putnam, and even Jennifer Poirier, in her delicate
condition!
The fig trees have been producing delicious figs again this
year and one day, Robert Watson became a helper by generously
offering to help me pick the figs from the higher branches.
Figs were a favorite fruit enjoyed by our founding fathers.
Jefferson boasted that his Marseilles fig was, " incomparably the finest
fig I' ve every seen," and another good farmer, George Mason, wrote a
letter to George Washington during the Revolutionary War, " May God
grant us a return to those halcyon Days; when every Man may set down
at his Ease under the Shade of his own Vine, &
his own fig -ree, &
t
the Sweets of domestic Life!"
anet juthrie
enjoy
�
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Geddy Garden News
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The Geddy Garden News was a monthly newsletter produced by employee Janet Guthrie who worked for many years as a garden interpreter at the James Geddy House. The Library holds a partial run of this newsletter (issues 33-114 with some gaps) for the years 1996-2003. The newsletter ceased publication in 2003 upon Guthrie’s retirement.
Subjects covered most often in the newsletters are 18th century gardens, gardening publications, gardens of the Founding Fathers, plant uses, early and pre-Christian folklore, and seasonal customs. Much good and interesting information is found within these newsletters, but current users should be alert for some now archaic interpretive sources, Latin errors, and cultural generalizations, especially with Native peoples/nations of North America which are often treated as one culture instead of many.
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Guthrie, Janet
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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Geddy Garden News, no. 75, August, 2000
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Guthrie, Janet
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Colonial Williamsburg Foundation