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  The Garden Before the Machine On the lost vegetables of the Medieval Age, and why they are coming back Morgoth Autumn has arrived to call time on my third growing season at the veg patch. I still have some hardier brassicas, such as cabbage, sprouts, and broccoli, in the plot. Still, the good times are indeed over, and my decidedly unexciting overwintering crops, such as leeks, onions, and garlic, are almost ready to go in. Looking back on the growing season, I can recount my successes and failures. I planted tomatoes for the first time and found them to be an astonishingly weak and needy plant. First, as seedlings, there wasn’t enough daylight; then, as plants, it was too cold; then they had too much water; then they demanded expensive fertiliser. During the summer heatwave, it was too hot. Conversely, a great success story this year was the scarlet runner beans. As the tomatoes cried out for attention in the greenhouse, the scarlet runners happily climbed a makeshift trellis an...

 Thanks to manfred127 for recommending this article... Outraged Farmers Blame Ag Monopolies as Catastrophic Collapse Looms/ Ag Web The monopolies must be reined in, or we will just be fixing things around the edges without getting to the heart of farm bankruptcies. Meryl Nass Thanks to reading Ice Age Farmer’s new  substack  “Unshadowed” on a plane today, I found this article from  September 9  that lays out the farming crisis beautifully, in the words of the farmers experiencing it. https://www.agweb.com/markets/outraged-farmers-blame-ag-monopolies-catastrophic-collapse-looms Outraged Farmers Blame Ag Monopolies as Catastrophic Collapse Looms The inescapable crop math of sustained crippling commodity prices and high input costs has many growers screaming for immediate relief. However, bailouts are Band-Aids over bullet holes, contend farmers desperate for fundamental change. By  Chris Bennett “This is what farmers know and experience,” says producer Adam C...