Hello Sabine,
Thank you very much for the information! So that is why the olive was the
Minoans' holy tree...interesting. And I will have to ask the farmers what
they had the hardest time killing under the trees.
Thanks again for the information!
All the best,
Jennifer
At 11:06 PM 9/30/2002 +0300, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>good wells are rare here in Crete, and apart from winter (until may/early
>June), where during most years all cereals and legumes can be sowed and
>harvested until the dry season begins, only one main plant is watered during
>summer from many slightly brackish wells: the olive.
>With this trick (and EC money for growing olives, unfortunately) even the
>most desert-like fields can be made to yield a crop (with brackish water)
>...
>No wonder the olive (lasting for ages, too, if cut properly) was the
>Minoans' main holy tree!
>
>And if you want to find out more, just ask all those farmers who then kill
>with roundup or the like whatever grows below the watered trees unwantedly
>during the summer what they want to kill most...
>
>Best from the southernmost end of the European Community
>
>Sabine Beckmann
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jennifer Ramsay" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 7:33 PM
>Subject: Salt tolerant plants
>
>
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > Sorry to bother you all on a Monday but I am looking for
> > information/references on salt tolerant (agricultural) plants and I
>thought
> > I would see if anyone knew of any. I am a Ph.D. student at Simon Fraser
> > University in Canada and I am working at Caesarea in Israel. The
>reservoir
> > at the site appears to have become slightly brackish in the later period
>of
> > its Roman occupation (3rd & 4th centuries) and could have only been used
> > for industrial or agricultural purposes. I already have evidence for
> > barley being the majority crop during this period but I would greatly
> > appreciate any assistance anyone could offer in the way of references or
> > information on any other salt/drought tolerant species.
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Jennifer Ramsay
> >
> > Dept. of Archaeology
> > Simon Fraser University
> > 8888 University Drive
> > Burnaby, B.C. V5A-1S6
> > CANADA
> >
> >
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