Beautiful Cabbages
“My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.”
- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)
“The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“A garden, the, is a finite place, in which a gardener (or several
gardeners) has created, working with or against nature, a plot
whose intention it is to provide pleasure; possibly in the form
of beauty, possibly in the form of cabbages - and possibly,
beautiful cabbages.”
- Abby Adams, The Gardener’s Gripe Book
“All the cabbages in our garden are robust and green to the core;
All the peppers are dead and black, not red anymore.
The onions are thriving, the tomatoes all gone,
The lettuce is rising, the pecans all stored;
It’s wet now in Red Bluff, Winter’s knocking at the door.”
- Mike Garofalo, November
