erbs prefer direct sun, good drainage and average soil. Very rich soils actually work against developing good herbs because the plants are encouraged to focus on growth at the expense of production of some of the oils for which their foliage is valued.
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Harvested in late spring when bulbs were two inches or less across, Ruby Queen tasted more like sweet corn than beets. Harvested in the fall, it tasted like beets, oh well. Ruby was still infinitely better than Cylindra in the fall. Cylindra tasted like maybe you should can it and save it for later when you’re really hungry.
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A few decades ago in the foundry where I shoveled sand into molds and busted up ingots with a sledgehammer, we’d joke about telling people it was a health spa and charging them to do the work. People now pay for the privilege of swinging a sledgehammer at an old tire, under a trainer’s supervision. From what I’ve seen of that, neither coach nor participant know much about sledgehammers.
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