3/31/2023 0 Comments Mushroom wars acorns![]() ![]() ![]() Prepare the bulbs bed and apply a layer of peat moss and sprinkle in some bone meal or bulb booster and cover with another layer of peat moss, add plenty of good soil. When you buy spring flowering bulbs, buy a bag of bone meal or bulb booster to start the bulbs off. Hyacinths are really a breath and fragrance of early spring and add one of the first bursts of color to the landscape of spring. Hyacinths come in colors of white, pink, purple, red, cream, yellow, blue, and lavender. Spring flowing bulbs include daffodils, jonquils, narcissus, crocus, hyacinths, and tulips. You can purchase spring bulbs in individual or assorted colors sold in singles or mesh bags. The bulbs of the spring flowers are showing up at Home Depot, Ace Hardware, Lowe’s home Improvement, Walmart, and at hardwares and nurseries. The time to set out the bulbs of spring flowers have arrived. September the time to plant spring flowering bulbs For a real treat, wash and core an apple and fill the core area with Skippy peanut butter! Use them in recipes, salads, deserts, and snacks. Apples will continue to be a staple with us from now all the way through winter. Enjoy the season of the apple and purchase several colors and varities. Red, gold, green, yellow, pink apples available at roadside markets and supermarkets in Surry CountyĪ trip up U.S Hwy 52 from Mount Airy and onto Interstate 77 at the state line of Virginia is a feast of colorful apple displays in boxes and bushel baskets in all sizes and colors. Great with ice cream or Cool Whip or just plain. Spread the dough in a well greased 13 x 9 x 2 bowl, mix the remaining sugar, boiled cubed apples, apple pie spices, brown sugar, vanilla, melted margarine. Beat in the Crisco shortening, add eggs and milk. In a large bowl, mix flour and three tablespoons of sugar, baking powder, and salt. You will need three and a half cups plain flour, one and a half cups sugar, two teaspoons of baking powder, three fourths teaspoon salt, half cup of Crisco shortening, two eggs slightly beaten, one and a fourth cups milk, two and a half cups of peeled, cored, diced tart apples, boil in water until tender (and drained), two teaspoons of apple pie spices, three fourth cup of brown sugar, one stick melted light margarine, one teaspoon vanilla. ![]() It is a simple recipe with most of the ingredients already in your kitchen. It is named “breakfast” cake, but can also be made for dinner and supper too. In daytime when the sun is out and temperatures are above freezing, remove towel but replace at night. Reserve a towel or rag and cover the balm on freezing nights. Keep balm on the back part of the front porch. Fill the container to the brim with new potting medium and top with a layer of peat moss for added winter protection. In mid October, trim the balm to about a foot tall. As we move into October, keep the balm well watered and feed with Flower-Tone organic flower food. Getting the American bee balm ready to winter overĪmerican bee balm will endure winter if you give it a bit of care and attention. Add crushed leaves to the compost and place a layer of crushed leaves around azalea beds for winter protection. Run the mower over some of them to use for mulch and to place between rows or beds of cool weather vegetables and around turnip rows, broccoli, and cabbage beds, as well as collards. Use the leaf blower, vacuum, or an old-fashioned rake to move them to the garden plot or the compost pile or bin. No wonder that the mighty oak is Americas national tree.Īutumn is now officially here and the first of autumns leaf harvest is already reaching the ground as maples begin to unload their colorful leaves and other varities will soon follow. Many oaks do not produce their first acorns until they are 50 years old while other varieties of oaks including Northern Red Oak, Chestnut Oak, Black Oak, Scarlet Oak, Pin Oak, English Oak, White Oak, Swamp Oak, Post Oak, and Bur Oak. Oak trees enjoy a long life span with some of them living for centuries. A more pleasant fact about mighty oaks is that they grow in almost every state in America and this is why the oak is considered our national tree. My Northampton County grandma always said, “When the acorns in the autumn cover the ground, in winter, snow will be around.”Īnother acorn legend says that when squirrels scurry to go around and store acorns, look for a winter of cold, ice, sleet, and plenty of snow. We wonder if the acorn harvest this autumn will be an abundant one. The acorns on the mighty oaks are sounding off loud and clear as they bounce off the roof of a neighbor’s outdoor garage. The acorns on the mighty oaks begin their fall ![]()
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