Wizard gardens and food

[zanooda2]

No: HPFGUIDX 161761

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "k12listmomma" 
<k12listmomma at ...> wrote:

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> Not one vegetable is mentioned, perhaps an oversight on the part of 
> Rowling? But I don't think so, for I don't think she had in mind a 
> vegetable garden. She had in mind an English  garden for that house.


zanooda:

Weasleys' garden seems a mixed kind. Flowerbeds are mentioned quite 
often, yes, but Molly grows some vegetables there as well. In HBP, 
when Harry spends Christmas at the Burrow, the twins put a garden 
gnome on top of the tree instead of an angel. JKR says that the gnome 
was caught after he "had bitten Fred on the ankle as he pulled up 
carrots for Christmas dinner" ("A very frosty Christmas", HBP, p.330 
US hardcover).
 
I think it's a great help for a family like the Weasleys to have 
their own potatos, cabbages and such, including probably those 
parsnips someone threw at Percy at Christmas dinner:-).

I suppose the Weasleys also grow some fruit, because they own an 
orchard not far from their house.