19 Aug Strawberys
September begins the farmer’s year. The harvests are largely in, and the bills paid, so the provident farmer can look to the future of his farm. Thomas Tusser, with an eye to good eating as well as good tillage, in his “Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry” bids “Wife, into thy garden, and set me a plot, with strawberry rootes, of the best to be got: Such growing abroade, among thornes in the wood, wel chosen and picked proove excellent good.”...