"Sacha" wrote in message
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On 2012-12-09 12:07:39 +0000, Spider said:

On 09/12/2012 09:52, Sacha wrote:
On 2012-12-09 09:46:38 +0000, Sacha said:

On 2012-12-09 00:03:33 +0000, "graham" said:

http://gernot-katzers-spice-pages.com/engl/index.html
This useful link was just published in the bread group and I thought
it
would be interesting to some here.
Graham

Thanks, Graham! ;-)

Sorry - I hit 'send' too quickly. I was wondering how many urglers are
already growing some of the things on this list. I mean, we probably all
know that ramsons grow wild and were one of the 'fashionable'
ingredients in many chef's dishes earlier this year, but who knew it as
Bear's Garlic. What a lovely name! Some things we can never grow because
of lack of heat and sun hours but there are probably quite a few that
will grow here. Some years ago, during the televising of Chelsea, Istr a
segment of the programme devoted to people with allotments in London and
many were growing rather exotic herbs and veg.



The Bear's Garlic tag is actually quite well known. It springs from the
ransoms' latin tag, Allium ursinum. Anything Ursine is bear-related, as
in the stars Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (Great and little bear,
respectively). I bet you knew it but didn't apply it ;~).

Not I. I don't think I ever knew the 'ursinum' bit, otherwise I might have
caught on!
--
The last thing with which you would want to come face to face in the wild is
Ursus arctos horribilis!
In fact, it would probably be the last thing!