here's a fun rabbithole we just went down - we've just planted some agretti, also known as salsola soda, and Barrilla in Spanish - and also known in English as Saltwort
and it turns out that the word "soda" as in fizzy drinks comes from how they were originally fizzed using sodium carbonate (nowadays it's done using carbon dioxide)
and the element sodium was isolated from caustic soda in 1807 by Sir Humphrey Davy, and he named it sodium to indicate its relationship with the above plant, which was historically grown and burnt to produce soda ash, the alkali used in making glass and soap
agretti is also supposed to be delicious, a bit like spinach when cooked, and like a snappy seaweed when raw - anyway how cool is this
we'll report back on the flavour once it grows
