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Those cabbages and root vegetables make for a hearty meal. They are the perfect start and filler for stock, broth, and soups.

posted by Sherri_G on September 26, 2021 at 7:44 AM | link to this | reply

Re: C.C.TBill

It is often covered with buttercups and daisies Bill.

posted by C_C_T on September 26, 2021 at 6:15 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Good Evening Goldiec

Indeed we do not see them very often here. You might though.

posted by C_C_T on September 26, 2021 at 6:12 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Kabu

Yes , someone must have had a picking. nice to see you around.

posted by C_C_T on September 26, 2021 at 6:11 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Sea_Gypsy

I expect your Mother taught you more exciting ways of cooking. I don't know why teachers went mad when one wrote like that I could have sloped forward but they insisted on upright, Nice to see you back.

posted by C_C_T on September 26, 2021 at 6:09 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Pat

It was probably a shortage of teachers. I remember he tried to cane a large boy once and found the boy was too strong for him.

posted by C_C_T on September 26, 2021 at 6:06 AM | link to this | reply

Re: adnohr

Yes. The old headmaster was not a bad guy. Although once he held a match to a gas pipe when a kid said he smelled a leak.

posted by C_C_T on September 26, 2021 at 6:03 AM | link to this | reply

Re: FS

Yes, the old chap was always asking me to bring them.

posted by C_C_T on September 26, 2021 at 6:00 AM | link to this | reply

Getting the logs sounds like a good way to get out of any potential trouble with the boss.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on September 26, 2021 at 5:41 AM | link to this | reply

Like Pat_B, I lived in a farming community and and gardening was learned at home, whether we wanted to learn or not. Maybe that back-slanting 'punishment' was just an excuse because the headmaster was in need of logs?

Love the poem. Reminds us not to forget what is really important.

posted by adnohr on September 26, 2021 at 4:11 AM | link to this | reply

We didn't learn gardening at school - most of the kids were

in farm or rural families and learned that at home. Teachers at that time had access to paddles - one or two had them hung on the wall where we darling adorable children could see them and be warned. It seemed to me they had absolute control then, but these days not so much.

posted by Pat_B on September 26, 2021 at 3:40 AM | link to this | reply

You having a class in school about gardening was about like me having to take a class about basic cooking called Hone Ecominucs. The teachers didn’t like backhand writing. I know. I had to tilt nyboaoer backwards so the slant was forward. I liked your poem a lot. The little things are the best.

posted by Sea_Gypsy on September 25, 2021 at 8:05 PM | link to this | reply

We had a garden as well at my bush school for grades 1-7.We also grew vegetables and like you I have no idea if or who ever benefitted from them.