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By THERESA REYNOLDS
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For 17 years Arlene and Acey Frye have been gardening at their home in the F. T. Valley. But for years before that, ever since either of them can remember, both of them have been gardening and putting up food every summer.
For the Fryes, gardening is a joint project. Acey keeps the large gardens clean and well-tended with a tiller and a hoe, and Arlene pickles, cans and freezes.
When I visited her last week she had just put up 38 quarts of beans, 4 pints of squash pickle, 3 quarts of sauerkraut and 1V4 quarts of beet pickle. And that’s barely a beginning.
There were literally hundreds of cucumbers waiting to be picked. Fat snap beans hung from rows of plants and butter beans were beginning to fill out in their pods. To cope with the overabundance of squash beginning to come in, Arlene had made use of a friend’s recipe for a squash casserole that requires only baking:
Tana's Squash
Dice yellow squash and onions enough to feed family.
Season with salt and pepper.
Mix in one stick of margarine and cook at 350 degrees until done.
The Fryes had one of the best-kept gardens we visited and also one of the most productive. Arlene had been
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