Thursday, October 22, 2020

celtuce


 Delaware Morning News 28 March 1942 p. 7

I had never heard of Celtuce. It's actually a thing. It was big in the US in the mid-40s, I am not entirely sure why but maybe easy to grow in wartime victory gardens? Maybe my mother will grow some for me in her laneway garden.



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