Sauerkraut is high in vitamin B6, K and C. The vitamin C concentration made it useful for sailors looking to avoid scurvy in antiquity. Most people would prefer citrus (to each his own), but cabbage grows in lots of places that citrus does not. And sauerkraut stores well for a journey.
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Yes. Exactly so. Off-growing seasons and long term expeditions and outposts did have to by trial and err develop carry over sources for trace vitamins. I am reading the book âAstoriaâ by Peter Stark about the 1811-1813 colony attempt at he mouth of the Columbia River that petered out and failed due to every long winter wet season nutritional lacks sicknesses. Scurvy. Rickets. VAD (vitamin A deficiency).
The British with a far flung sailing Empire - learned to use limes (probably copying the Spanish and Portuguese). Therefore the Brit sailors got nick-named âLimeâeesâ.
The Hessians/Germans learned to use sauerkrauts (probably copying the Dutch). Therefore Germans getting tagged as, âKrautsâ.
We USA/Canada used; and still use apples as a wintering over supplement. Then the child hated Cod-Liver oil.
âBorschtâ ?? for others?
Ha! Native herbs, fungi and wintering over leafy plants, native rose-hips can do the same-same supplementations. The âAstoriansâ were very poor at learning and adopting native coping strategies. With the arrogance of civilization and seduced with the God-like power of gunpowder.
Steve unruh
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Many of you maybe already know this but it was new to me.
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Willow does make for better rooting. Iâm not sure about the aspirin and peroxide, but Iâm pretty sure the video is AI. Cuttings standing unsupported, a dropper bottle with the dropper descending from the squeeze bulb, tablets dissolving instantly all are hard to believe. The flashing âscratches on the movie filmâ are an especially creative touch. The information may be accurate, but it would be good to find another source as back-up.
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I have heard of all three but not together like that. I have used peroxide to speed up germination. I have used willow as a rooting compound, never with seedlings and I have heard about aspirin, but never tried it.
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Almost all the gardening advise channels on youtube have the same two or so voices. Most of them donât get more than a few thousand views. Whatâs the point of posting the same things over and over. Not a fan.
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Moving day. Relocated my worm bins to their summer home and mixed up a tasty mash of rotted squash, potatoes and peat with a few quarts of old tomato sauce thrown in for good measure. They love all that crap. Still chilly here and their new location isnât heated so they wonât be real motivated to gourge themselves like they would if their bins were 70F. I havenât been planning a big garden this year and will mostly be growing in 25 gallon tubs but I have been thinking about what they call chaos gardens, where you just scatter seeds and take what you get. Well I have tons of seed packets from the plandemic years that should be expired or about to so Iâm just going to stick them everywhere and see what happens. Iâve mostly been feeding deer and rodents the last few years anyway. I wonât feel so bad about them eating stuff I didnât put a lot of effort into.
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I cleaned out my 5 gallon buckets a couple of weeks ago. during that warm spell.
I am looking at the cardboard method for lazy gardeners. I would need like a dumpster of cardboard though.
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