Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["John D'hondt" <dhondt@eircom.net>]

Exactly my point really Paul. But there are few onion greens or turnips in 
Siberia or Alaska in winter. There is always a way or there would be no 
people at these high latitudes.
john

> Onion greens, turnip and mustard greens, broccoli etc.
>
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> On Sep 29, 2010, at 11:41 AM, EJ <emj@uvic.ca> wrote:
>
> > rose hips, black currants
> >
> > On 28/09/10 2:14 PM, John D'hondt wrote:
> > > > Where do folks in the higher lattitudes get vitamin C in the winter, if
> > > > not for oranges?) > Barbara M
> > > > Foster, RI
> > >
> > > I remember when oranges where still relatively new in many parts of 
> > > Europe.They were nearly inedible for being so sour. So I would guess 
> > > that people in higher latitudes had other ways of getting vitamin C for 
> > > thousands of years before oranges reached them.
> > > A tea/infusion made from pine needles did it for locals in the Arctic 
> > > region and they saved many an "explorer" from scurvy death with that.
> > > john
> > >
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