Welcome to Daddy Pete’s Plant Pleaser, where our mission is to help you grow…one plant, one garden, one lawn at a time.

We believe everyone has an inner farmer waiting to come out, and we would love to help you develop your farming, gardening, and landscaping techniques. Below you will find some tips for your gardening and landscaping projects, and some different recipes to help you bring your harvest from your garden…to your kitchen…to your dinner table!

So, let your inner farm out. Come discover farming through the eyes of Daddy Pete’s, where our goal is to become more creative, so that our creativity equals your increase.

Pictured: Mrs. Sledge Smith, Daddy Pete’s daughter-in-law, cooking a traditional turkey dinner for Thanksgiving in 1972.

FRUITS

Apples
Blueberries
Pears
Persimmons
Strawberries

HERBS

Garlic
Parsley
Rosemary
Sage
Thyme

VEGETABLES

Bell Peppers
Broccoli
Carrots
Celery
Corn
Green Beans
Leeks
Onions
Peas
Popcorn
Potatoes
Pumpkin
Spinach
Sweet Potatoes

NUTS

Pecans

We are so thankful to all of you for using our products and for allowing us to share our blog with you each month. We love to help you grow…and we are blessed when you allow us to help you farm with Daddy Pete’s products! So, Happy Thanksgiving, and we hope you enjoy the recipes that we have provided for your Thanksgiving feast and events!

For this November’s reminders, it is still a great month to plant fruit bushes and fruit trees (such as apples, blackberries, blueberries, figs, nectarines, peaches, pears, persimmons, plums, strawberries); shade trees; shrubs; and border evergreen trees. Daddy Pete’s Planting Mix is an excellent growing medium for all of these items. If you need to amend your existing soil for planting, we recommend Daddy Pete’s Composted Cow Manure, Daddy Pete’s Kickin’ Chickin, Daddy Pete’s Lawn & Garden Soil, or Daddy Pete’s Mushroom Compost. Use our Daddy Pete’s Raised Bed Mix to refresh your raised beds in preparation for spring; and don’t forget to spread our Daddy Pete’s Mulches around your trees and shrubs to help protect them through the winter months.

November is also a wonderful season for gathering with family and friends to share a meal together. For November’s recipes, we are sharing ideas for a traditional Thanksgiving meal. We have found some recipes that will make use of some of the items you harvested in your gardens, raised beds, or patio containers this year. If you have frozen or canned fruits and vegetables, they will work great in these recipes.

For breakfast we have the Best Frittata Recipe and a First Watch Chia Pudding Bowl. For an appetizer to enjoy while you prepare the main meal, you can prepare a Thanksgiving Charcuterie Board.

If you are making plans to watch the Thanksgiving Day parades or ballgames on TV, here are some snack ideas for munching on while you watch: an Easy Spiced Nuts Recipe or Maple Syrup Popcorn.

For a light salad before the main meal, try a Broccoli Apple Salad recipe.

For your main, traditional Thanksgiving meal, here are some great recipes to try: a Cowboy Butter Turkey; a Classic Honey-Baked Ham Recipe; a Thanksgiving Stuffing Recipe; Easy Scalloped Sweet Potatoes; Homemade Creamed Corn; Blistered Green Beans; Thanksgiving Peas (with Pear & Pancetta); and for your bread, a Sourdough Pumpkin Loaf. For dessert, we have 2 options: Pumpkin Pie with Streusel Topping and Turkey Cupcakes. If you have leftovers, we suggest a Thanksgiving Sandwich recipe and a recipe for Healthy Leftover Turkey Wild Rice Soup with Vegetables.

If you have time to work outdoors this month, November is a great month for pruning deciduous trees, planting spring bulbs, amending beds for spring planting, or refreshing raised beds. For these projects, we recommend using Daddy Pete’s Composted Cow Manure, Daddy Pete’s Lawn & Garden Soil, Daddy Pete’s Mushroom Compost, or Daddy Pete’s Planting Mix. Also, don’t forget to do maintenance on your gardening tools and to service your gas-operated gardening equipment. And this is a good time to purchase your seeds for next spring and to start a gardening journal for next year.

Don’t forget to visit our website at www.daddypetes.com to submit your questions for our Daddy Pete Podcast with Melvin York and Jay York. Here is a link to our November gardening tips.