The proof of the parsley

Now, there's nothing Spuds loves more than a proverb, always excepting the odd sausage sandwich, so it was no surprise that after reading the blog entry for 10th December, The Seed Succeeded, the phrase "The Proof of the Parsley is in the Packing" was soon to be heard whistling through our polytunnel. And since it is possible that some readers have doubted that "Old Curly," as Spuds calls it, really was conceived in 1976, here's the evidence.

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  1. DawnDecember 15, 2022 at 11:07 AM

    The proof is indeed convincing. But I wonder if the seed packet had been dated 2020, whether you would have had the same success or whether some clever person would have found a way to stop seed more than a year old from germinating?

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  2. Beetroot and SpudsDecember 16, 2022 at 11:36 AM

    A good point there from Dawn. Some seed merchants indulge in genetic engineering in ways that can only be described as unethical. We should all be on the watch for seeds, bulbs, or whatever whose lives turn out to be artificially short

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