Less Common Plants in the Kitchen Garden
By Lori Curtis
An 18th century Pennsylvania German garden contained many of the same vegetables, culinary herbs, and flowers as contemporary gardens do, such as beans, peas, onions, carrots, cucumbers, peppers, radishes, beets, lettuce, spinach, rosemary, parsley, chives, mint, and hollyhocks. However, there are unique plants in the Wentz Garden that are not usually found in today’s vegetable gardens.