zanahorias

I'm going to switch languages.

Well, I was going to write about the simple carrot, but, when I started gathering information it became a much larger project than I had anticipated. I need to read through some rather long articles.It seems like an uncomplicated vegetable has a complex history!

I guess with GW I got into plants more than I had before. (I'll use initials when I write.) I used to go to his plantation in the tropics here, and then read books on botany and economic applications of plant uses. I really loved that plantation...the tropical plants were fantastic. The trouble is it's overwhelming, though.The tropics. Things GROW.

The area around the house was cleaned, so it was like a garden.Beyond that was the tangled jungle of his cardamom cultivation, a forbidding wall of green.
There were three clusters of really incredible plants there. Not even in the Amazon have I seen things of that size. They were shell, flame and torch ginger--ornamental "cousins" to cardamom.

Just below the house was a river, and beyond that, a hill he had left with primary jungle.The birds from there in the morning made a racket.Enough to wake me up.

On the path to the river he had planted toquilla, and around a processing area further up, small coconuts.He had planted kudzu in the fields.

I learned to distinguish them and their names.