[HPforGrownups] Re: Wizard gardens and food

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 161764

Shelley wrote:
>> 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).


Yes, I agree that a vegetable garden would be very beneficial for the 
Weasley family, just that it's not mentioned as being right near the house. 
The vegetables are probably grown in a field nearby, next to the fruit 
trees, but not in their immediate yard, as the English garden is described 
to be where they had dinner. Which them brings up the question of just how 
big is the Weasley property? For all the talk of them being poor, you can't 
be too poor if you own land that feeds you.

Shelley