Re: Childhood plant memories

Hello,
 
I remember picking and eating crabapples and huckleberries in Maryland and making pretend salads out of oxalis - small morsels of plants tasted so good then.  I also grew sweet violets in pots in the house in winter - growing so many violets I started giving potted plants to all my friend's moms.  During the summers while visiting my grandmother, we picked new potatoes and she taught me how to peel them by putting the potatoes in a washtub with water and shale rock.  We stirred the water briskly and the shale peeled the potatoes like magic.  We had naked ladies in our backyard while living in Vallejo and we were always amazed when they came out of the bare ground.  Arkansas had some lilies called spider lillies which were small red spider looking flowers that also came out of bare ground.
 
Linda Starr
Springville Lavender Gardens 
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