Peter Rabbits Pumpkin Patch at the York Fair Kids can make a tasty mini cheese pizza on an English muf fin. Right? For children’s garden ing, the simplest garden recipes are the best. Here’s an idea for a children's garden anyone can try. A new version of the amazing maze will be at the York Fair from Sept. 6 to 13. The ‘Great and Small’ gardener will truly be amazed at a children’s garden called, “Peter Rabbit’s Pizza Patch.” The garden will be in the shape of a large veggie and herb pizza for children to touch, smell and explore. All young children are welcome. The garden is free. Located at the 4-H Animal Learning Center tent, the garden ■was designed by the Penn State Master Gardeners for pre-school and elementary age children. The garden even plays home for a rab bit named “Peter” and Master gar deners known as Mr. and Mrs. McGregor and a scarecrow. A rainbow of vegetables and herbs make up each pizza slice containing different plants. Plants include paste tomato, oregano, onion chives, sage, hot peppers, lovage, winter savory, garlic chives, and others. For interest, use basil, Italian parsley, english thyme, curly parsley or marjoram in the outer edges of the pie. Pizza gardens can also have seasonal interest. Add a combina tion of annual, perennial and edi ble flowers. Potted plans like Let TKrshcv I mKm EQUIPMENT CO., INC. do the work! New expanded services from Hershey Equipment include feed mill construction and expansion. Let us do the work and design your storage and handling systems. We have our own experienced crews for service and installation. TT€RSH€V mtm EQUIPMENT CO., INC. SYCAMORE IND. PARK 255 PLANE TREE DRIVE spearmint and rosemary can be placed in the center of the garden. For best results, choose a location in full sun with a southeast expo sure. Find a site with well-drained soil with a pH of 6.5-7.2. The best size for children is a 16-foot diameter roulid garden with 6 garden slices. For an even smaller version, a half circle pizza „ slice can be planted along a walk or patio. Plant one slice with herbs and edible flower crust, one slice with veggies and one slice planted with potted herbs. For the adven turous gardener, the metropolitan thick crust pizza shape could have 1 foot grass paths (the width of a lawn mower) with brick edging. Your pizza garden could con tain a one-half round whiskey bar rel in the center planted with ten der herbs. Three weeks prior to a killing frost, bring in the tender herbs and place in a protected patio room or well lit garage. An east or west window is preferred. Annual flowers for the border of the pizza garden might be calendula, pansies, mexican mari gold, forget-me-not, small leafed gerafliums, impadens, bush-type nasturtium, begonias, or others. Perennials include tulips, vio lets, viola, johnny-jump-ups or carnation-pinks. Cheddar pink would be a great carnation choice to put some cheese into the gar den. Even english daisies and all types of lavender work well. To allow light into the center of the garden, have oregano facing east and winter savory (or sum mer) facing west Try these other saucy pizzas. Plant variegated forms of herbs when you find a good culinary cultivar you like. Or, plant dwarf forms of herbs in the crust border. Remember to include only plants you will use in cooking or decoart ing. Replace plants that don’t do well Keep the hardiest plants for children to enjoy each year. Easy Pizza 1 English muffin, split and toasted 4 teaspoons pizza sauce 3 tablespoons cooked lean ground beef, seasoned with ground pepper, onion, dried oregano, basil and dash of garlic powder 3 tablespoons shredded part skim mozzarella cheese Questions on the above can be directed to Thomas S. Becker at 840-7408. E N HAP Round Valley Riders 4-H Club The Round Valley Riders 4-H Club has new members Melissa Devine, Mary Heffner, and Linnea Vegh from Remington and Kacie Moreland from Clinton. Round Valley Riders will be visiting Showplace Farms in Englishtown for the standard bred races and country fair. Members will work a 4-H booth for the Standard Bred Retirement Foundation. Club members donated food to the Hunterdon Food Pantry. Goat Club Meets The Cumberland County 4-H Goat Club met Aug. 7 at Sonya Rinkers house. The roundup was Aug. 4-5. Members are reminded to send out their buyer ‘Thank you" letters. The next meeting is Sept 4 at Zach Travis’ house. The club’s project books are due at this meeting. ANSWER—Jerry Johnson, Herndon, wanted a recipe for canning spaghetti with meat. He’d also like a recipe to can chicken noodle soup. Thanks to a reader for sending a recipe. Spaghetti Sauce To Can 2 pounds ground beef 2 pounds loose hot or sweet Italian sausage, browned and drained 6 onions, fried in oil 4 6-ounce cans tomato paste 12 quarts whole plum tomatoes, peeled 6 tablespoons basil leaves 4 tablespoons salt 1 tablespoon pepper I'A cups sugar 1 teaspoon minced garlic 1 tablespoon oregano N G S Bring to a boil and simmerSO to 60 minutes. If mixture is too thin, add more tomato paste. When ready to pour mixture into jars, add: I'h cups parmesan cheese Pour into jars and pressure can one hour at 10 pounds pressure or freeze. CHICKEN CORN SOUP TO CAN pounds stewing chicken quarts water quart celery, chopped fine onions, chopped quarts corn tablespoons salt teaspoon pepper tablespoons parsley flakes pound noodles In large kettle, cover the cut-up chicken with water, add salt and pepper. Cook until tender. Remove chicken. Strain broth (remove excess fat). In large kettle, cook the celery and onions with broth. Bring to a boil. Cook 5 minutes with remain ing ingredients. Add noodles. Pressure can, 50 minutes at 10 pounds pressure. Lancaster Farming, Saturday, August 24, 1996-B9 (Continued from Page B 8) Cook's Question Comer
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