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Re: Mangel

From: UrbanHarve@aol.com
To: sustag@tinet.ie, owner-permaculture@listserv.oit.unc.edu, permaculture@envirolink.org, permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu, permaculture@listserv.unc.edu, organic-l@steamradio.com
Subject: Re: Mangel
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 13:40:24 EDT

William Woys Weaver's book Heirloom Vegetable Gardening p.82-3 says this about
the turnip beet/ fodder beet (mangels/mangold-wurtzel/ Mangelwurtzel 'root
beet' literally). It is the fodder beet Beta vulgaris var rapa. Course
texture, needs deep loose soil in open field, threatened by extincition,
appeared first in Germany's l;ower Rineland 1561, used for livestock-- nothing
said about goats.
Bob Randall (Urban Harvest)

Mangel, Ute Bohnsack, 09/03/1998
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