Now see?   if I had read that long ago, I would have given up on garlic (being a member of the onion family,) and kale much sooner.

Or even not reading it, had I but heeded the words of my father, his wisdom passed down through generations of eastern Kentucky farmers, and mayhap and perchance, handed down even longer thence from ancestors of assorted and diverse origins, his wisdom being, "put the kale through two changes of water to boil the farts out of it," I might still be happily married.