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where did all those wild vegies go?
There are many wild relatives of lettuce and cabbage growing everywhere -
some are common weeds of the garden in fact! I'm pretty sure there are wild grains around many places - small seeded varieties of wheat, oats, buckwheat, etc, but you'd never be able to tell them apart from other tall grasses. In the lower midwest and south there are native persimmons everywhere in the woods. Also in the woods are blueberries, and in the south and west, blackberries and other berries. But most of the garden vegetables and fruits we have are bred for size and flavor, not for the rugged ability to colonize wild places. "Michelle" wrote in message ... Hey I was reading a post on my cooking group and one user always posts a factoid about food this time it was about a chili pepper plant and it's ancesstory . so my question is how come you don't just see vegetables growing all over the place wild like som crazy out of control tomatoes or somthing like that once I saw some whild sunflowers in the woods and I saw a pumpkin once but not too much else I see whild fruit all the time like crab apples or sour cherry but no bunches of Have we imbread cultivated food plants that they just don't grow wild where did all the wild plants go that we cultivated modern vegetables from? Just a queery Michelle "Love is the water in the garden of life " |
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