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Pumpkins

  • How to Make Royal Icing and Decorate Cookies
  • Sheet Pan Supper: Butternut Squash Soup
  • Pumpkin Cheesecake Pie
  • Pumpkin Bread Pudding
  • How to Cook a Pumpkin: Roasted and Puréed
  • Marion’s Crazy Good Pumpkin Bread with Chocolate Chips
  • Mom’s Pumpkin Pie

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  • How Local Canola Crops are Grown
  • How to Start Seeds in a Recycled Milk Jug
  • Oven-Roasted Strawberry and Rosemary Jam
  • Homemade Grape Jelly
  • Group Project: A Shibori Dyed Quilt
  • Farming Equipment 101: Harvesting Winter Wheat
  • The Tobacco Barns of Trigg County, Kentucky
  • How to Knit Fingerless Mittens on Straight Needles

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Can you believe a new knitter who is a rock climber figured out how to knit herself a chalk bag?! Another is working on a shawl using directions from the back of a yarn sleeve! Another is making a scarf with self-striping yarn. And one fellow is making a red hat “like Holden Caulfield’s.” All with donated supplies!! Many made fingerless mitts using the pattern I wrote for them. It turned out to be a good “second” project (after making a scarf) because they learned basic skills like casting on and off, increasing, ribbing, knitting, purling, and how to make a gusset. Once they had mastered these skills, they were able to knit anything, even CREATE A CHALK BAG without a pattern! Grateful for the donated copies and downloads of MDK’s @how.to.knit (their textbook) and all the folks who left boxes of donated yarn, needles and knitting books at my front door. I am grateful and BEAMING! BTW, we found the best time for class to meet was during lunch break, in case you are thinking of starting a knitting club. We’ll be back next fall! Link to mitt pattern is in my profile. Parting words to each other: “Let’s make matching hats this summer!” Of course, there is a pattern on the blog… just sayin’. #itsawrap #highschoolknittingclub #awardwinningchocolatechipcookiesforthewin
“Choose Me!” Plant reproduction: zucchini. There are both female and male flowers on each plant. The flowers are open for about 4 hours each morning. Bees carry pollen from one flower to the next. This is the first morning each of these young plants has had flowers. 90% of the flowers are male. That’s how squash season always starts-- it takes more energy to make a female flower and ovary so nature, because it is magnificent, makes sure there are lots of pollen grains available for pollination. When you see what looks like a small shriveled up zucchini, that means it didn't get pollinated. I call that “Failure to Launch.” Before I knew this I wondered why some of my zucchini fruit died as babies. #pollination #pollen #birdsandbees #backyardgarden #kitchengarden
Dagnabbit! What kind of night visitor knows how to pull a row cover off a bed of corn?! The critter ate the corn kernels and left the greens. #grrrrr #backyardgarden #kitchengarden #trialsandtribulations #corn I will reseed in a milk jug. Read how to do that using the link in my profile. #milkjuggarden #seedstarting
The flowers produced by onions and garlic are beautiful! But they gotta go if you want the onion and garlic bulbs to grow large. The day chefs made recipes with scapes (seed heads of garlic) popular, well that was a great day for farmers because they could sell the edible seed heads instead of throwing them in the compost. Always remember plants have one job-- to reproduce. Flowers make seeds. Seeds ensure more plants. Making seeds diverts the plant's energy from bulb growth-- our reason for it being in the kitchen garden. The last 3 pics show how a seedhead looks as it matures. The green pods mature into white seed packets filled with tiny black seeds. Nature is magnificent. #seeds #lifegoals #pollination #reproduction #growingfood #kitchengardens #backyardgarden and #onionsculpture #scapes
Reporting for duty. #volunteer This is the first episode of @roadshowpbs to be filmed since the pandemic started. 3000 guests are expected- each with 2 or 3 treasures to be appraised. This is a huge production. Cameras are everywhere. Volunteers have blue shirts, the crew is in green, and the appraisers are dapper. We all eat our meals together in the same mess hall- the tent at Cheekwood. Interesting: the appraisers are all volunteers who pay their own travel expenses. #antiquesroadshow
How to plant a tall tomato plant. Typically, we plant tomato plants deep in the soil for optimal root development. When you have a tall plant, you can’t plant it that deep because the root ball will be too cold to support growth. Solution? Dig a long 4-5 inch deep trench and lay the stem and root ball horizontally. Gently bend the tip of the plant so it becomes vertical. Cover stem with dirt leaving the tip exposed. Water regularly until roots are established. #plantingtomatoes #kitchengarden
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