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Cracked Pot Gardener: March 2011
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011. The Girls Get a New Coop. Coriander and Cilantro finally got some new digs. My husband and I, well okay, mostly him, built a new chicken coop or hen house. I can say hen because He says I can’t have any more roosters.but before you start feeling sad I will tell you that it is okay. God is So Good! He asked me then what I thought and of course I was prepared. I gave him my laundry list of wants. 5 A planter on the front where I could put hens and chicks, Sempervivum tectorumR...
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Cracked Pot Gardener: October 2010
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Saturday, October 30, 2010. Towanda…Fried Green Tomatoes. It’s been a few years since I’ve practiced my skills of frying up green tomatoes but with the bumper crop of green tomatoes this fall I decided it was time. So, I put on my apron, let out a quick warrior cry of “Towanda” and headed to the garden to pick a mess of big green unripe fruit. Coat each side with corn meal and let them sit again for 30 minutes or so. Yeah, I know seems like there is a lot of sitting around. 8226; 2 1/2 tablespoons paprika.
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Cracked Pot Gardener: The Girls Get a New Coop
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011. The Girls Get a New Coop. Coriander and Cilantro finally got some new digs. My husband and I, well okay, mostly him, built a new chicken coop or hen house. I can say hen because He says I can’t have any more roosters.but before you start feeling sad I will tell you that it is okay. God is So Good! He asked me then what I thought and of course I was prepared. I gave him my laundry list of wants. 5 A planter on the front where I could put hens and chicks, Sempervivum tectorumR...
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Cracked Pot Gardener: April 2011
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011. We The Vegetables" A Story by Guest Blogger, Chairmen George Ball of W. Atlee Burpee and Co. This story begins earlier this year, just as the very first crocuses peeped from the frosted ground. One cold bright morning, George Ball, the Proprietor of W. Atlee Burpee, the gardening company, discovered a curious-looking green envelope in his mailbox. He noticed the pages gave off a distinct bouquet: verdant, earthy and curiously intoxicating. The letter read:. It is our duty and o...
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Cracked Pot Gardener: Garden To Do List for March
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011. Garden To Do List for March. Spring is bursting forth in the Upper South region with daffodil, crocus and hyacinth bulbs blooming. Helebores continue to show out while trees like the Redbud and Star Magnolia along with flowering shrubs help to welcome the re-birth of the garden, a beautiful time to work outside. March is a good time to plant asparagus crowns, blueberry, strawberries, grapes and horseradish – all available at your local nurseries and TSC stores. Cindy is AOL's Up...
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Cracked Pot Gardener: Towanda…Fried Green Tomatoes
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Saturday, October 30, 2010. Towanda…Fried Green Tomatoes. It’s been a few years since I’ve practiced my skills of frying up green tomatoes but with the bumper crop of green tomatoes this fall I decided it was time. So, I put on my apron, let out a quick warrior cry of “Towanda” and headed to the garden to pick a mess of big green unripe fruit. Coat each side with corn meal and let them sit again for 30 minutes or so. Yeah, I know seems like there is a lot of sitting around. 8226; 2 1/2 tablespoons paprika.
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Cracked Pot Gardener: Can you say Asteraceae?
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010. Can you say Asteraceae? This was my third of five weekend classes in Mountain City, GE learning about wild plant medicine making. The weather was near perfect, no rain which in a rain forest is unusual. We trekked over trails and at Patricia's whim we would stop, drop and key out plants. Difficult or not, persistence, a good magnifier with guidance from our fearless leaders and our trusty 'Newcomb's Wildflower' and 'Vascular Plants of the Blue Ridge' books in hand (or backpa...
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Cracked Pot Gardener: Breakfast at Emily's .....Daylily Garden
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Thursday, June 16, 2011. Breakfast at Emily's .Daylily Garden. A breakfast in the garden starting at 6:30am, what a wonderful idea I thought to myself when I received the invitation. A perfect time of day for a gardener who is used to getting up early to beat the heat.especially this year in Middle Tennessee where it has been in the mid-90s for the past 19 1/2 days without a drop of rain (but who's counting). Plant daylilies in full sun for the best flower show. Buy daylilies with a double fan (the green...
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Cracked Pot Gardener: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010. It’s a Bird, a Plane…It’s a Hummingbird Clearwing Moth! While taking pictures this week of my kitchen garden critters I spotted this feller (or maybe gal) on the ‘Blue Chip’ buddleia (dwarf butterfly bush). I snapped a couple of pictures so I could get a better look later and to help with the identification. The hummingbird clearwing moth or. Many people mistake this moth for baby hummingbirds which now explains all the stories I have heard from excited gardeners about teeny tin...
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Cracked Pot Gardener: A Couple of Sweet Potato Queens
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Monday, October 25, 2010. A Couple of Sweet Potato Queens. It seems The First Lady and I share some common ground… in the garden. Yes, we can both grow some ginormous sweet potatoes. I think it is safe to say, maybe even politically correct to imply we are a couple of Sweet Potato Queens, both a bit surprised at the size of our taters perhaps but proud none the less of our garden produce. 8220;The sweet potato ranks extremely high in nutritional value according to the Center of Science in the Public Inte...