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Show QEAR HELOISE have an automatic drip coftee maker and only want to make one cup, you don't have to use the pot, just the basket. Fill the basket with enough ground coffee for one cup, place your cup where you would put the pot and pour in only one cup of water; turn on. Presto, a perfect cup of cof ,ee A.M. If you SMELLS GOOD DEAR HELOISE.; When you've had a busy day and forgot about fixing supper for hubby and the children, here's a hint that usually works. Set the table first, before you prepare a meal, start fryeven if you ing some onions have to put them in a meatloaf later. When that starving husband and hungry children bounce in, they'll think supper is nearly ready. Meanwhile, fix them some salad or hot soup until the rest is prepared and they can wait more easily. . W.A. DECORATIVE POTS DEAR HELOISE; came up with an inexpen sive way to decorate plain plastic plant pots. Wow! 'That's a tongue twister. I love wicker and macrame, but the price has gone sky high for those of us who love lots of plants. Heres one idea on how to make a decorative pot. Wash the outside of the pot I thoroughly with soap and water and let it dry. Take some white glue and streak it up and down and around, let it get a little tacky, than start winding the macrame rope around the pot, starting at the bottom. Circle it around, pressing the rows tightly together and adding a little glue to the bot tom rope as you go along. When you reach the top, add glue to the edge of ttie rope and the pot and press firmly. It makes a very attractive holder and can be made in all the macrame colors available. You could also add those decorative ceramic butterflies and things to the rope as you go along. Make them fancy or plain, it's up to you. Joyce Buffolino DEAR HELOISE: have an idea for using empty baby food jars, or ac tually any size jar. I had some little plastic figurines, some plastic fern and flowers. I took a little rabbit and glued it to the bot tom of the inside of the jar, then glued some plastic fern and little pebbles around it, to make it look like it was standing in the woods. Some water and white glitter in the jar makes a pret ty snow scene. You could do this with any color glitter. It all looks pretty, and they make great inexpensive gifts for all ages Jane Pierce, Age 12 GRANDMA'S GIFT DEAR HELOISE: I wanted to make a handmade gift for my grand mother. really didn't have much money, and wanted to latch hook a small rug for her. I used a mesh bag that oranges etc. come in. I cut it to the size I wanted, then taped the sides. It worked great and she now has a beautiful little rug. Debbie Stone I DEAR READER: This is your column. If you'd like to share a hint, ask a question or make a suggestion, write me, at P.O. Box 32000, San Antonio, TX 78216. I I 17 Hugs, Heloise 77ie plnni dwAor 0 King FtaTures Syndicate. Inc SUPER FIREWOOD SPECIAL! Tomatoes after frost by Dr. Arvil Pickup Load I. Stark Tribune Garden Consultant TOMATOES ARE the most popular vegetable in home gardens in the United States. They do well in a wide range of soil and climatic conditions, are easy to grow, can produce the most harvest for the space occupied in the garden, are delicious fresh or processed, yield continuously from late July to frost in autuum and then can be held until Thanksgiving or later for extended use. Some varieties are adapted to a longer storage life than others and are still useable until Christmas or later if you can Jumble on Page H-- 2 tolerate the quality of such long kept fruits. Covering the vines with tarps, blankets or some other protective material on frosty fall nights is a common practice to extend the harvest period. Such flimsy coverings often fail to prevent cold injury so some gardeners go over the vines the afternoon before the first predicted night frost to remove all ripe and mature fruits. This harvest should procede with extreme care to prevent injury to the fruit because bruised fruit spoils more rapidly in storage. A shorter storage life is also d common in punctured or tomatoes. Decay also occurs earlier in the natural growth cracks that are more common with some vasrieties than others. Experienced gardeners try to grow varieties that are free from this defect, especially for storage. TO AVOID EXCESSIVE sorting and handling divide the fruit at harvest time putting the red and pink fruit together, the pale green insect-damage- Answer: TORRID POUNCE CURFEW WHOLLY ZODIAC NEARBY What you have to be before volunteering as a blood donor A BLOOD OWNER Pine logs. lengths. Right now only $55 per pickup load. (Standard v ton pickup, ij cord total.) Hurry! container and the less mature deep green fruits in a third. in another Brown grocery bags are quite suitable for storing tomatoes or any other container may be used. Some like to wrap the fruit individually in newspapers. Temperatures around 50 degrees f. are preferred for long keeping. Warmer temperatures near 65 degrees f. or higher are more suitable for ripening the fruit. Chilling injury might occur on fruit held at temperatures much below 50 degrees. An unheated garage, tool room or other out building is a suitable storatge place in autumn. When temperatures around the fruit drop much below 50 degrees F. as the weather becomes colder, it is best to move the fruit to a warmer situation to prevent chilling. HOME GARDEN tomatoes on the Thanksgiving table is easily possible. Stretching it to Christmas is cause for braggin but only modestly because of the inferior eating quality of such long stored fruit. mi Great Spring color begins right now when you get your bubs in the ground. At Wasatch Shadows Nursery, youll find a wide selection of the best in Holland bubs: Tulips, Crocus. Hyacinths. Daffodils, the unique Allium and many, many more! HYACINTH SANDY 9295 South 255 West 566-060- 8 HOLLADAY 4510 South 2620 277-274- East 4 Salt Lake Tribune Home Magazine, Sunday, October 17, 1982 41 9 |