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Barb's boundless cucumber bonanza

Barb and her giant cucumbers

While holding her bountiful home grown cucumbers, Forest Hills Garden Club member, Barb Michaels, accepted the annual Forest Hills Garden Club Gigantic Golden Gourd  Award in her back yard.

Surrounded by her munificent crop of mammoth cucumbers, Barb explained how she accomplished this prodigious feat.  Good soil, organic fertilizer, hand watering and a sunny location.  Barb, an artist with many accomplishments, finally admitted the true secret.  She personally knits the seeds in a secret BARB pattern she designs before planting.  Ms. Michaels did not offer to share the design or secret to knitting seeds to this reporter.

Unimpeachable secret sources tell us a relish recipe Barb entered in the 2009 State Fair of Texas has been awarded the coveted blue ribbon. 

Barb and her Forest Hills Garden Club field trip to the State Fair each year for their September meeting to check out the ribbons won by garden club members in the cooking contests, get gardening ideas from the landscaped beds and enjoy the outdoor sculptures along Sculpture’s Way and the Totem Garden in front of the lagoon. 
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