General information and Historical Snippets

My notes on what I have grown, or plan to grow, on a Yorkshire allotment, with a few snippets of history.

The routes by which our vegetables have arrived here, sometimes traceable through our languages, set a twinkle on the spider's web of the wide world, its links, movements, and migrations.   Thor Heyerdahl in the comfort of the potting shed!

If you find it useful, good.   If it stirs you to tell me of a different and better way of doing things, better still.   "The only good idea is one passed on!"    Please drop me an e-mail.