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Colonial Connecticut's crops included herbs, flax, Maize (corn), beans, squash, oats, barley, lettuce, cabbage, cucumbers, onions, potatoes, beets, carrots, radish, parsnip, pumpkin, tobacco, & small fruits & apples.
"Some typical foods were the root crops, under-growing crops such as potatoes that were gathered and stored,... fruits that were pickled and preserved-a favorite for kids was cowcumber pickle,... strung and hung from rafters to dry along with onions, corn and herbs for medicine and seasoning, marigolds which are yellow flowers and used to color butter, flavor food and strengthen hearts."
The Connecticut Paugaussett indians showed the settlers how to plant and sow corn, called Maize, using companion planting, called "three sisters". This planting method produced a highly balanced and nutritious crop of beans, corn and squash, all from the same mound. They showed them how to tap sugar maple trees in order to boil the sap to produce maple syrup.
The English migrated out of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth Colony into Connecticut which is "one of the richest agricultural areas probably in the world." They no doubtly would have brought their garden layout & practices with them.
"To guarantee high yields in such small spaces, the soil was carefully enriched. All wastes - human, animal and vegetable - were carefully hoarded, composted in piles and added to the gardens when ready. Another common practice was one we would today call "over-seeding." For example, onions, which are slow to germinate, were overseeded with lettuce, which is quick to mature. As the lettuce grew, it was removed, allowing space for the onions and providing a double harvest from a single space...
Although the colonists greatly appreciated their beauty, blooms were incidental in these first gardens; plants were chosen for their usefulness, not their aesthetic value. If flowers occurred, all the better. (One of the most striking, by the way, is elecampane [inula helenium], a 6-foot stately plant with velvety leaves and lovely, daisy-like flowers.) It wasn't until much later that more prosperous circumstances permitted the luxury of planting solely for beauty's sake."
Scroll down this page to find a Schematic Layout of a 1627 Kitchen Garden at Plimoth Plantation & a listing of plants:
"Tobacco has been a cash crop in Connecticut since colonial times, whether it was grown shaded under netting or with no cover as in Brookfield."
Tobacco and rice. Also, they grew corn, and some types of beans, too. Carrots were another common staple. Corn was made into basically everything back in colonial times, because it was the most abundant crop. There were limited supplies that existed in colonial Connecticut.
In modern Connecticut the most important crops are dairy, poultry, forest and nursery, tobacco, vegetables and fruit. The most important crop in colonial Connecticut was tobacco, the second most important being rice.
Tobacco became a major crop in the 1830's and today the high-grade broadleaf variety, used in making cigar wrappers, is grown in the valley.
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What were 3 major colonial cash crops?
Tobacco, Rice, and Indigo were the top 3 major cash crops.
Main cash crops in colonial North Carolina?
Tobacco
What foods where grown and eaten in colonial Connecticut?
Corn, pumpkin, squash, and beans were some of the crops grown and eaten in Colonial Connecticut. They also ate a variety of seafood and turkey meat.
Cash crops and food crops with pictures?
cash crops are the crops that are grown to earn money
What crops are grown in Georgia?
There was cash crops such as tobaco rice and indgo.Crops that Colonial Georgia grew were varied. However, the most popular crops were tobacco, indigo, and rice.Rice, Indigo, Cotton, and TobaccoTobacci, indigo, and rice ... along with the silk industryRice and indigo were the two main cash crops in colonial Georgia, and sugar and tobacco were important as well. Colonial Georgia existed from 1732 to 1777.it was rice
What was Connecticut's colonial cash crop?
tobaco
Did Connecticut grow cash crops?
yes
What kind of economy did Connecticut have in 1635?
Cash crops
What were 3 major colonial cash crops?
Tobacco, Rice, and Indigo were the top 3 major cash crops.
Main cash crops in colonial North Carolina?
Tobacco
What were some popular foods in Colonial Connecticut?
deer bears rabbit crops
What kind of food and natural resources can you take out of Connecticut?
corn and cash crops
What foods where grown and eaten in colonial Connecticut?
Corn, pumpkin, squash, and beans were some of the crops grown and eaten in Colonial Connecticut. They also ate a variety of seafood and turkey meat.
In New England did thet have cash crops?
According to Historians, the New England colonies in the colonial period produced cash crops specifically in the areas of fishing and lumber.
Were there slaves in colonial Connecticut?
Yes, there were slaves in colonial Connecticut.
What best describes the agricultural system which existed in colonial Latin America?
Cash crops such as sugar and tobacco were the primary crops grown and were exported to Europe.
What was a Massachusetts cash crop?
Tobacco.
