Garlic and beans were to be set on the feast of St Edmund the King, 20 November, with the moon on the wane. Tusser said a great deal hung on the waning moon. He promised a good increase to feed the household before peascod time.
Garlic and beans at St Edmund’s
20 November · England
Lore and belief
Set garlike and beanes, at S. Edmond the king, / the moone in the wane, thereon hangeth a thing:
From Tusser's Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, p. 57. Read the original
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