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THE DIGGERS Dorchester Garden Club Summer, 2016

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Mark Your Calendars

AUGUST, 2016 12 DGC “Petite Gardening. Growing in a Small

Space” August meeting. Speaker Kathy Jentz, Editor and Publisher “Washington Gardener” Magazine. Eastern Shore Hospital Center, Woods Road, Cambridge 11 am. Entries 9:30-10:30 am

20 Great Eastern Shore Tomato Festival Waterfront Vienna, MD 10am-5pm

SEPTEMBER, 2016

9 DGC “Sisters on the Road” September meeting Bus Trip to Nemours Mansion and Gardens, Wilmington, DE. $45, Registration required. Departs Cambridge 7:45am

27-28 Landscape Design School “Creativity in the Garden” Crown Plaza Hotel, Annapolis, MD. Registration required. Fee.

30-Oct Colonial District Rose Fest Hyatt Fair Lakes, VA 2

OCTOBER, 2016

4 Chestertown Garden Club “Wild with National Geographic” Dr. William Schindler, Washington College, Chestertown, MD 11 am. Free.

5 District 1 Semi Annual Meeting, Talbot Country Club, Easton, MD

8 Nanticoke River Jamboree at Handsell Historic Site, Vienna, MD

18 “Beauty in Bloom” Women’s Club of Roland Park, Baltimore Admission $40 (w/lunch and fashion show $80)

21 DGC Leaf Casting Workshop “Preserving Nature’s Beauty” presented by Jeanne Bernard Neck District Firehouse, Cooks Point Road, Cambridge

29 DGC “A Night of Wine and Roses” Fundraiser at the home of Dee Terry, 5715 Bar Neck Road, Cambridge. 6-8pm

NOVEMBER, 2016 4 “George Washington Slept Here” Standard

Flower Show Chestertown Garden Club, Emmanuel Church, Chestertown 1:30-5pm

5 FGCMD Horticulture Day Vollmer Center, Cylburn Arboretum, Baltimore

11 DGC “Autumn Glow: Fall Tasks for a Healthy Spring Garden” Robin’s Nest, Floral and Garden Center, Cambridge Yacht Club 11 am. Entries 9:30-10:30

Information for programs sponsored by other Clubs is at http://www.fgcofmd.org/Calendar_Events.html

The Potting Shed Flower Show Award of Horticultural Excellence

Tall Bearded Iris “Paint it Black” – Kathy Miller

http://www.fgcofmd.org/Calendar_Events.html


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“The Potting Shed” The Dorchester Garden Club Standard Flower Show The Dorchester Garden Club’s May 25th “The Potting Shed” Standard Flower Show staged at Immanuel Church of Christ in Cambridge, Maryland was a success on many levels and an outstanding team effort. The show was judged by 12 National Garden Club accredited Judges from several Counties across the State. There were 273 horticultural exhibits, 36 floral designs and 2 educational exhibits.


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Top Design Awards

Award of Design Excellence, highest scoring in entire Design Division and

Table Artistry, highest scoring exhibit for Functional Exhibition Table “Relax and Rewind. Snack in the Garden” A Tray Design – Faye Phillips

Designer’s Choice Award (Far Left) “Bold by Design. Glistening in the Sun” Reflective Design – Ellen Rindfuss Petite Award (Left) “New Beginnings. Reaching Out” Free Standing Small Stretch Design – Faye Phillips


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Show Chairman’s Award – Most Creative Use of Color in a Design, Sandy Lucas

Top Horticultural Awards

Award of Horticultural Excellence Grower’s Choice – Highest Scoring in Combination Plantings Highest Scoring in entire Horticulture Susie Middleton Division, Kathy Miller


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Arboreal Award – Highest Scoring in Broadleaf Arboreal Award Highest Scoring in Flowering Shrubs Evergreens – Faye Phillips Beverly Shelly

Collector’s Choice Award – Highest Scoring in Displays Section Susie Middleton


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Award of Merit – Highest Scoring Award of Merit – Highest Scoring Award of Merit – Highest Scoring Rosa, Patti Hopkins Hosta, Susie Middleton Herbs, Kathy Miller

(Far Left) Award of Merit – Highest Scoring Flowering Perennial, Kathy Miller Award of Merit – Highest Scoring Foliage Perennial, Faye Phillips


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Special Exhibits

Educational Top Exhibitor Award, Landscaping with Pots – Mowbray’s Garden Center

Award of Appreciation. Celebrating 85 Years of Flowers, Friends and Community – Mary Jo Papin


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The Potting Shed” May 25, 2106 Individual Awards Division I – Horticulture “Green Dreams”

Section A. Rosa Class 3. Polyantha or Floribunda: 1st Patti Hopkins Class 4. Shrub: 2nd Patti Hopkins, 3rd Ellen Rindfuss, HM Mary Jo Papin Class 5a. Miniature, Single bloom: 1st Jane Parks, 2nd Jane Parks Section B. Hosta Class 6a. Miniature, Solid green: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Susie Middleton Class 6c. Miniature, Margined, variegated or splashed: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Susie Middleton, 3rd Susie Middleton Class 7a. Small, Solid green: 1st Susie Middleton, 3rd Ellen Rindfuss Class 7c. Small, Margined, variegated or splashed: 1st Clara Mae Stephens, 2nd Cookie Brohawn, 3rd Susie Middleton, HM Ellen Rindfuss Class 8a. Medium, Solid green: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Cookie Brohawn, 3rd Susie Middleton Class 8b. Medium, Solid blue: 1st Susie Middleton Class 8c. Medium, Margined, variegated or splashed: 1st Mary Jo Papin, 2nd Ellen Rindfuss, 3rd Kathy Miller, HM Clara Mae Stephens Class 9a. Large, Solid green: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Susie Middleton, 3rd Beverly Shelly Class 9b. Large, Solid blue: 2nd Susie Middleton Class 9c. Large, Margined, variegated or splashed: 1st Susie Middleton Class 10a. Giant, Solid green: HM Jeanne Bernard, Ellen Rindfuss Class 10b. Giant, Solid blue: 2nd Dee Terry Class 10c. Giant, Margined, variegated or splashed: HM Patti Hopkins, Jane Parks Section C. Herbs Class 11. Mentha: 1st Nancy Hastings, 2nd Wanda Ciekot, 3rd Kathy Miller, HM Cookie Brohawn Class 12. Ocimum basilicum: 2nd Beverly Shelly Class 13. Petroselinum: 2nd Nancy Hastings, 3rd Susie Middleton Class 14. Rosemarinus: 1st Kathy Miller, 2nd Barbara Stockton, 3rd Susie Middleton, HM Clara Mae Stephens Class 15. Salvia: 2nd Susie Middleton, 3rd Ellen Higgins, HM Jeanne Bernard Class 16. Thymus: HM Patti Hopkins Class 17. Any other herb: 2nd Susie Middleton; 17-a 1st Lynne Davis; 17-b 1st Susie Middleton; 17-c 1st Lynne Davis; 17-d 1st Patti Hopkins Section D. Flowering Perennials Class 18. Achillea: 1st Cookie Brohawn, 2nd Susie Middleton, 3rd Fran Collins Class 19. Aquilegia: 2nd Jeanne Bernard Class 21. Dicentra spectablis: 1st Ellen Rindfuss, 2nd Mary Jo Papin


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Class 23. Paeonia: 1st Helen Davies, 2nd Ellen Rindfuss, 3rd Patti Hopkins, HM Eula Lee Legg, Susie Middleton, Mary Jo Papin; 23-a: 1st Patti Hopkins, 2nd Ellen Rindfuss, 3rd Susie Middleton, HM Fran Collins, Susie Middleton; 23-b: 1st Jeanne Bernard, 2nd Barbara Stockton Class 24: Any other flowering perennial in bloom: 1st Barbara Stockton, 2nd Beverly Shelly, 3rd Helen Davies; 24-a: 1st Lynne Davis, 2nd Beverly Shelly, 3rd Ellen Rindfuss, HM Harriet Leech, Faye Phillips; 24-b: 1st Dee Terry, 2nd Cookie Brohawn, 3rd Susie Middleton, HM Patti Hopkins, Kathy Miller; 24-c: 1st Kathy Miller, 2nd Ellen Rindfuss, 3rd Cookie Brohawn; 24-d: 1st Wanda Ciekot, 2nd Patti Hopkins; 24-e: 1st Wanda Ciekot, 2nd Ellen Rindfuss, 3rd Deana Kozak; 24-f: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Deana Kozak; 24-g: 1st Fran Collins; 24-g: 2nd Kathy Miller, 3rd Linda Allen; 24-h: 1st Fran Collins, 2nd Cookie Brohawn; 24-i: 1st Jeanne Bernard, 2nd Deana Kozak, 3rd Beverly Shelly, HM Linda Allen Section E Foliage Perennials Class 25. Arum: 1st Faye Phillips; 3rd Jane Brighton Class 26. Ferns: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Jeanne Bernard Class 27. Heuchera: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Deana Kozak, 3rd Beverly Shelly, HM Deana Kozak, Ellen Rindfuss Class 28. Any other foliage perennial: 1st Mary Jo Papin, 2nd Kathe Scanlon, 3rd Fran Collins, HM Fran Collins, Deana Kozak, Clara Mae Stephens Section F. Flowering Annuals Class 30. Lantana: 2nd Jane Parks, 3rd Jane Parks Class 31. Pansy: 1st Cookie Brohawn, 2nd Deana Kozak, 3rd Deana Kozak, HM Fran Collins Class 33. Verbena: 1st Fran Collins Class 34. Any other annual in bloom: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Ellen Higgins, 3rd Linda Allen Section G. Broadleaf Evergreens Class 35. Aucuba

a. Solid green: 2nd Cookie Brohawn b. Variegated: 1st Patti Hopkins, 2nd Cookie Brohawn, 3rd Ellen Rindfuss, HM Fran Collins

Class 36. Buscus a. Solid green: 1st Lynne Davis, 2nd Kathe Scanlon, 3rd Fran Collins b. Variegated: 1st Faye Phillips

Class 37. Euonymous a. Solid green: 1st Fran Collins b. Variegated: 1st Faye Phillips, 2nd Clara Mae Stephens, 3rd Patti Hopkins

Class 38. Ilex a. Ilex aquifolium: 1st Eula Lee Legg, 2nd Lynne Davis, 2nd Ann Kirtland, 3rd Jane Parks; 38a-1: 1st Fran

Collins; 38a-2: 1st Susie Middleton b. Ilex cornuta: 1st Beverly Shelly c. Ilex crenata: 1st Beverly Shelly

Class 40. Any other broadleaf evergreen: 1st Fran Collins, 2nd Kathe Scanlon, 3rd Beverly Shelly, HM Fran Collins


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Section H. Flowering Shrubs Class 42. Deutzia: 1st Kathe Scanlon Class 44. Rhododendron – non-Azaleas: 1st Beverly Shelly, 2nd Lynne Davis, 3rd Ellen Rindfuss Class 45. Vibernum: 1st Patti Hopkins Class 46. Any other flowering shrub: 1st Kathy Miller, 2nd Fran Collins, 3rd Evelyn Renkwitz, HM Wanda Ciekot Section I. Displays Class 47. Display of five different cut flowering perennials: 1st Susie Middleton Class 48. Display of five different cut foliage herbs: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Jeanne Bernard Class 49: Display of five different cut Hosta: 1st Susie Middleton Section J. Combination Plantings Class 50. A Succulent and/or Cactus Dish Garden: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Jeanne Bernard, 3rd Jane Parks Class 51. Summer Outdoor Planter: 1st Susie Middleton, 2nd Cookie Brohawn Class 52. Hanging Planter [subdivided in pastels and non-pastels]: 1st Kay Karminski, 1st Faye Phillips, 2nd Ellen Higgins, 2nd Sandy Lucas, 3rd Fran Collins, 3rd Kathy Miller Division II – Design “Beauty Within Bounds” Section K. “New Beginnings” Class 53. “A Little Here, A Little There”: 1st Eulah Lee Legg, 2nd Julia Berman; 3rd Ellen Higgins, HM Harriet Leech Class 54. “Coming Up Small”: 1st Patti Hopkins, 2nd Ching Stanton, 3rd Lynne Davis, HM Jane Brighton Class 55. “Reaching Out”: 1st Faye Phillips, 2nd Ellen Rindfuss, 3rd Julia Berman, HM Kathe Scanlon Section L. “Bold by Design” Class 56. “Spade and Trowel”: 1st Bobbie Tamplin, 2nd Jane Brighton, 3rd Julia Berman, HM Cookie Brohawn Class 57. “Glistening in the Sun”: 1st Ellen Rindfuss, 2nd Wanda Ciekot, 3rd Fran Collins, HM Ching Stanton Class 58. “Windscape”: 1st Faye Phillips, 2nd Kay Karminski, 3rd Fran Collins, HM Barbara Stockton Section M. “Relax and Rewind” Class 59. “Snack in the Garden”: 1st Faye Phillips, 2nd Judy Slaughter, 3rd Donna Dunlap, HM Shirley Chatham Class 60. “Afternoon Delight”: 1st Barbara Stockton, 2nd Nancy Hastings, 3rd Jennie Rideout, HM Nancy Barger Class 61 “Bloom After Hours”: 1st Sandra Lucas, 2nd Karen Cartwright, 3rd Ching Stanton, HM Jeanne Bernard Division III – Special Exhibits “Ideas to Remember” Section N. “You Can Do This” - Educational Exhibits Exhibit 1. Landscaping with Pots: 1st Mowbray’s Garden Center Exhibit 2. Pots Planted for Shade: 3rd: University of Maryland Extension Section O. “Celebrating 85 Years of Flowers, Friends and Community Service” Exhibit 3. Award of Appreciation: Mary Jo Papin


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“Gardeners Aglow, Plants to Sow” Annual Picnic and Club Awards The Dorchester Garden Club held its annual picnic and 2015-2016 club awards presentation on June 10. DGC President, Julia Berman opened up her lovely home and gardens to members for the event which was themed “Gardeners Aglow, Plants to Sow.”

Our club’s prestigious Perennial Bloom Award for 2016 was presented to Cookie Brohawn in recognition of all she has done to make the Dorchester Garden Club grow and bloom through her exceptional support of the club’s goals and objectives. The Division I Top Horticultural Competition for the Lednum Cup 1st place was also awarded to Cookie Brohawn, 2nd place Beverly Shelly, 3rd place Susie Middleton, Honorable Mention Mary Jo Papin. The Division II Top Design Competition for the Tawes Bowl 1st place was awarded to Patti Hopkins, 2nd place Ellen Rindfuss, 3rd place Judy Slaughter, Honorable Mention Kay Karminski. The Dorchester Garden Club Horticultural Award Competition for the Kathryn C. Holt Cup for the most points in the Rosa Section was a tie for Linda Easter and Mary Jo Papin.


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And in the category of “pure fun”, members went all out with their “Garden Inspired Jewelry” creations. The winners, pictured below left to right, were Wanda Ciekot for “Funniest”, Kathy Miller for “Prettiest” and Judy Slaughter for “Most Creative”


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And the DGC welcomed 3 new members at the picnic… Left to right, Karen Cartwright, Nancy Barger and Donna Dunlap. Welcome ladies!

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Here’s Kathy Miller’s DGC 2016 Picnic Recipe for Beet and Apple Salad. Thanks for sharing, Kathy!!!

Ingredients: 1 T. brown sugar 2 t. butter 1/3 cup chopped pecans or halved 3 T. oil 5 t. apple cider vinegar 1 (14 1/2 oz.) can of sliced beets (cut in quarters if you prefer) 1 med golden delicious apple (I used gala) cored and chopped Directions: Melt sugar & butter in skillet. Add pecans and cook and stir over med. heat 3-4 minutes. Cool Combine oil, vinegar and toss with beets and apples. Add pecans just before serving. Can be served over letttuce if desired. Serve room temperature or cold.


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DGC Youth Gardening Committee for Camp Agape

Dorchester Garden Club members Nancy Hastings and Nancy Hebdon are co-chairing a new Youth Gardening Committee for approximately 40 Camp Agape kids in Dorchester County.

The program is designed to give these children of incarcerated parents an opportunity to experience the benefits of gardening and having something of their own to take home to nurture and care for – and hopefully to reap some harvest as well. Special thanks to Mowbray’s Garden Center on Route 50 in Cambridge for generously donating tomato plants, soil and growing containers for this youth initiative… and to both Nancys for taking on this wonderful cause!


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The Secret Buzz Only Bumblebees Know To Unlock Our Favorite Crops …By Lisa Marie Potter for NPR’s KQED

In the summertime, the air is thick with the low humming of bees delivering pollen from one flower to the next. If you listen closely, a louder buzz may catch your ear. This sound is the key to a secret stash of pollen that some flowers hide deep within their anthers, the male parts of the plant. Only pollinators that buzz in just the right way can vibrate tiny grains out of minuscule holes at the top of the anthers for a protein-rich snack. The strategy, called buzz-pollination, is risky. But it's also critical to human agriculture. Tomatoes, potatoes and eggplants need wild populations of buzz pollinators, such as bumblebees, to produce fruit. Honeybees can't do it. Plants need a way to get the pollen — basically, sperm — to the female parts of another flower. Most plants lure animal pollinators to spread these male gametes by producing sugary nectar. The bee laps up the sweet reward, gets dusted with pollen and passively delivers it to the next bloom. In contrast, buzz-pollinated flowers encourage bees to eat the pollen directly and hope some grains will make it to another flower. The evolutionary strategy is baffling to scientists. "The flower is almost like playing hard to get," says Anne Leonard, a biologist at the University of Nevada, Reno, who studies buzz pollination. "It's intriguing, because these buzz-pollinated plants ask for a huge energy investment from the bees, but don't give much back."

Buzz-pollinated flowers hide pollen grains deep inside their anthers, the long skinny male parts of the plant. Buzz-pollinators bite down at the base of anther and vibrate until pollen grains shoot out the top. Photo: Josh Cassidy/KQED


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Bee kisses and violent vibrations Bumblebees forage for two food sources: nectar for a quick sugar rush to power their flights and pollen for protein. Most buzz-pollinated flowers are specialists that only offer pollen — and they hide the grains at the bottom of tall, skinny anthers. The bee bites down at the base of the anther, leaving little marks called bee kisses. She "unhooks" her flying muscles from her wings so she can contract them without taking flight. Then she begins to vibrate violently, a behavior scientists call sonication. The vibrations travel through her soft body to the flower and shake up the pollen grains trapped inside anthers. When she buzzes hard enough, the pollen shoots out of the top and covers the bee. The bumblebee grooms herself, combing the pollen down and mixing it with saliva. She stores the pollen in sacs stuck to her legs as she makes her rounds. An unlikely evolutionary strategy Buzz pollination is an unlikely evolutionary strategy, because the plants are banking on bees working extra hard for a modest reward. Despite the risk of being ignored, buzz pollination has popped up in 20,000 flowering plants across a smattering of unrelated species. Leonard and her team are investigating what the strategy is all about. What are the evolutionary pressures that led so many buzz-pollinated plants to lose their nectar and to specialize in pollen? How do pollinators forage for pollen? Leonard and her graduate student Jacob Francis search for answers from the bee's point of view. They dosed fake flowers with different amounts of sugar water to see if the bee works harder to get pollen and nectar. To measure the bee's effort, Francis rigged a mini-accelerometer to the base of the flowers with some structural wax — the kind you put on braces as a lip protectant. "If the plant also offers nectar, for example, are the bees on a sugar high and buzz more vigorously?" asks Francis. Does this extra "buzz-thusiasm," as he calls it, remove too much pollen and actually harm the plant? Previous research shows that the harder the bee buzzes, the more pollen it gets. The flower could be selecting for the bigger, stronger buzzers that can fly longer distances and spread the flower's genes farther. The bee may be willing to put in the extra work because the buzz technique reduces competition — even honeybees are barred from access.


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The bumblebee stores the pollen grains in neat sacs on her legs. Photo: Josh Cassidy KQED

We human eaters reap the rewards

You may never have heard of “buzz pollination”, but chances are you've enjoyed blueberries, cranberries and peppers — just a few of the many crops that require a healthy population of wild bumblebees and other buzz-pollinators to produce fruit. Not only do these bees help buzz-pollinated plants, research shows that the presence of wild bumblebees improves the success of honeybee-managed crops. Despite their importance to human agriculture, we are just beginning to understand what makes buzz-pollinators tick. Wild bumblebee populations are in wide decline — partially because humans are messing with their pollen sources by replacing habitats with gardens or agricultural fields, Leonard says. She hopes her research will help reveal what will keep bee populations healthy. "They pollinate lots of crops that can't be pollinated by honeybees," says Leonard. "People will be shocked about how little we know about the bee's most important resource."


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Stuffed Squash Blossoms Recipe Zucchini plants loaded with flowers - why not eat them? Here's a recipe for Cheese-Stuffed Squash Blossoms with Shaved Baby Squash and Toasted Pumpkin Seed from University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum

Ingredients for squash blossoms: -3 cups small cherry tomatoes, halved lengthwise -2 teaspoons olive oil -3 oz mild fresh goat cheese (6 tablespoons) at room temperature -1 tablespoon heavy cream -2 tablespoons chopped green (hulled) pumpkin seeds, toasted -1/4 cup chopped fresh basil -1/4 teaspoon kosher salt -1/8 teaspoon black pepper -12 male squash blossoms with stems, trimmed to 1 inch Ingredients for vinaigrette and shaved squash: -1 tablespoon rice vinegar (not seasoned) -1 tablespoon minced shallot -2 tablespoons mild extra-virgin olive oil -1/8 teaspoon black pepper -3/4 teaspoon kosher salt -1 lb assorted baby summer squash, stems discarded Ingredients for tempura batter and frying: -6 cups vegetable oil (preferably canola or grapeseed) -1 cup all-purpose flour -1/2 teaspoon kosher salt -1 cup chilled sparkling water


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Ingredients for topping: -2 tablespoons green (hulled) pumpkin seeds, toasted until puffed up -1/3 cup small basil leaves (or chopped) Directions: Preheat oven to 250°F. Toss tomatoes with oil and arrange, cut sides up, in 1 layer in a shallow (1-inch-deep) baking pan. Bake in middle of oven until slightly shriveled, but not completely dried or browned, about 1 1/4 hours. Transfer pan to a rack to cool. Stir together goat cheese, cream, pumpkin seeds, basil, salt, and pepper in a bowl and fold in half of oven-dried tomatoes. Spoon 1 rounded tablespoon of this filling into each blossom and twist ends of petals gently to close. Chill, covered, until ready to fry. Prepare vinaigrette and shaved squash: Purée vinegar, shallot, oil, pepper, and salt in a blender until smooth and emulsified. Slice squash paper-thin (lengthwise) using slicer, then overlap squash slices decoratively on 4 plates to cover surface. Make tempura batter and fry blossoms: Heat 2 inches of oil in a 3-quart saucepan to 350°F on thermometer. Set a bowl in a larger bowl of ice and cold water, then whisk together flour and salt in smaller bowl. Then whisk in sparkling water until combined well. Working in batches of 3, coat blossoms in batter, lifting each out by its stem and letting excess drip off, then fry, turning, until batter is crisp (it will not brown), 1 to 1 1/2 minutes. Transfer blossoms as fried with a slotted spoon to paper towels, drain, then season with salt Drizzle vinaigrette over squash slices, then arrange 3 fried blossoms in middle of each plate. Sprinkle remaining oven-dried tomatoes, pumpkin seeds, and basil around blossoms and season with salt and pepper.


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Sad News from Barbara Melera about Landreth In case you missed it on Facebook, here is her final post about Landreth. Such a loss.

June 26, 2016 Dear Friends of Landreth This is my final Facebook post as the owner of Landreth. As many of you know, several years ago I and Landreth were sued by a creditor, Stephen L. Brucker, a retired businessman who had been an entrepreneur that my former firm had invested in. I was never able to successfully conclude the suit. In early March, Brucker seized the assets of Landreth, forbid me and the company from selling Landreth seeds and any Landreth assets and forbid Landreth from attending any of the spring shows the company often attended. In May, the assets of the company were auctioned off. This past Friday, the assets that were not purchased in the auction were loaded into a storage container and, presumably, hauled off to a storage site.


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At Brucker’s direction, the seed packed for 2016 was trashed along with other items deemed not to have value. I apologize to all of you who have supported my efforts over the past 13 years to save this historic American company. I let you down. I want all of you to know that guiding Landreth over these 13 years has been the greatest experience of my professional life. Meeting so many of America’s gardeners, sharing your experiences, learning from you, laughing with you, crying with you – has enriched my life like no other circumstances in my past. Landreth was and is America’s Company. No other corporation in the history of this country has touched more American lives for so many years. It is a company that was founded near the birth of our nation and has grown with this nation through its ups and its downs for over 2 centuries. It was founded by men and women of principle who brought to this country in 1784 more than 400 years of horticultural experience. What a gift for our newly formed nation! These men and women then took their knowledge and shared it with the families coming to America to build a new life. Landreth taught generations of Americans how to use preservation and conservation, innovation and exploration to live off the land and to live with the land. Few families and few companies have done as much for this nation. It was my great honor to have been a part of Landreth.

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