Re: TB: CULT: a question for the British?
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- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] TB: CULT: a question for the British?
- From: v* p*
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 1999 13:17:10 -0700
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From: virginia prins <inanda@bc.sympatico.ca>
One spit = 1 spade depth. Double digging = 2 spits
Ginny
BC who started gardening with her Grandmother in England
Linda Mann wrote:
> From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
>
> >From the HIPS page - quote from an article in the BIS Yearbook, 1942:
> > Bearded Flag Irises-An Initial Thirty.
> > BY F. WYNN HELLINGS.
> ......
> > The third (my present)
> > garden has a good top soil but this is only one spit in depth, the subsoil being an infertile kind of
> > brick earth.
>
> Just exactly how deep do you suppose this person spits? I am used to
> making estimates of metric conversions, but this is a new unit of
> measure for me - can anybody tell me how many inches are in a spit?
>
> I assumed this was humor at first, but then I wondered if maybe there is
> an obscure ME unit of measure, perhaps pictish in origin...
>
> Linda Mann
> bemused by the universe and definitely enjoying my vacation week
> puttering around.
>
>
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