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in What's New
May 20, 2013
New Podcast – Fifes and Drums: The Music
in What's New
May 16, 2013
From Our Kitchens: Chicken Pudding
in Gardens, What's New
May 15, 2013
From the Garden, May 15
Transplanted melons under paper frame
“Zatta” cantaloupe
This week we have moved the melons out of the hotbed frame and planted them in the garden under frames covered with oiled paper so that they may not be annoyed by the sun and wind before they have established themselves sufficiently to withstand the rigors of full exposure to the elements. It is of the utmost importance that young transplants are not allowed to wilt for they will never recover to their full vigor if once allowed to wither.
The sweet melon, prized by gardeners and gourmands, appears to have its …
in History, Multimedia, Podcasts, What's New
May 13, 2013
New Podcast – Fifes and Drums: The Instruments
in What's New
May 9, 2013
Colonial Williamsburg’s Gift to the Nation
Registration for our award-winning field trip, “Founders or Traitors,” is free for a whole year! Get free access to this Electronic Field Trip including its award winning collection of video, lesson plans, interactive web games, and resources through May 1, 2014.
Colonial Williamsburg’s Gift to the Nation provides teachers with unique resources to engage student citizens in the values that shaped our nation. The Electronic Field Trip Founders or Traitors explores late 1776, “the times that try men’s souls.” Meet the signers of the Declaration of Independence and discover the risks they took.
in Gardens, What's New
May 8, 2013
From the Garden, May 8
separating slips from the potato
setting out slips on ridges
The sweet potato was known in Virginia long before the white potato arrived. Robert Beverly listed the sweet potato as one of the plants “our Natives had originally amongst them” in The History and Present State of Virginia (1705). It is likely that the sweet potato was first brought to Virginia by Spanish explorers or possibly through trade between native tribes. In English garden works, the white and sweet potatoes were hopelessly confused. The white potato originally went by the misleading name of Virginia …
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