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Beware Women in the Garden! - Eyren - 13-08-2020

While googling for something unrelated, I fell down an internet rabbit hole and found this fascinating article from English Heritage:

Weeding Women: Shaping England's Gardens

Evidently I had better not try to grow "gourds" (I think Pliny meant melons?) as they would be killed by my femininity!


RE: Beware Women in the Garden! - Veggie - 13-08-2020

Brilliant find, Eyren. Smile
Probably accounts for my withered Trombas. Wink


RE: Beware Women in the Garden! - Broadway - 13-08-2020

Laughing but not at you ladies, reminds me of the Harry Enfield sketches