{"id":4693,"date":"2015-04-10T03:00:52","date_gmt":"2015-04-10T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=4693"},"modified":"2015-04-10T03:00:52","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T07:00:52","slug":"q-and-a-enamel-lined-dutch-oven-with-a-chip-and-planting-asparagus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2015\/04\/10\/q-and-a-enamel-lined-dutch-oven-with-a-chip-and-planting-asparagus\/","title":{"rendered":"Q and A: enamel-lined Dutch oven with a chip and planting asparagus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Enamel-lined Dutch oven with a chip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Is it safe to cook in a cast iron enameled-lined Dutch oven that has a chip in the bottom? Where the chip is located you can see the cast iron it is about the size of a nickel.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cindy Dobbs<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Prairie Grove, Arkansas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yes, you can. Of course you can also cook in a full cast iron Dutch oven like I have. I&#8217;d just watch carefully to make sure that the remaining enamel is solid; you wouldn&#8217;t want it to flake off in your food. Usually, though, it is solid and you can use your Dutch oven for years that way. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n<p><strong>Planting asparagus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Gearing up for planting and would like to try my hand with establishing an asparagus plot. I have tried unsuccessfully in the past \u2014 I think 2x so far \u2014 so I am hoping 3rd time is the charm! Do you recommend any particular plants or vendors for buying the crowns? I am down in the Twin Cities, so somewhat similar conditions \u2014 a lot of clay (which last time I added a bunch of sand) and some severe temps. Also, do you prefer canning, freezing, or dehydrating the spears or just eating as you go?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Lisa Basso<\/em><br \/>\n<em>St. Paul, Minnesota<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We bought asparagus plants from Nourse Farms and have never seen nicer plants so we really do recommend them. Their website is <a href=\"http:\/\/noursefarms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">noursefarms.com<\/a>. We really had good luck planting them in a furrow with black plastic on either side to control weeds and bring more heat to the soil. HUGE, plentiful first-year spears! We can and dehydrate all of ours that we don&#8217;t eat fresh, but it does freeze very well. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enamel-lined Dutch oven with a chip Is it safe to cook in a cast iron enameled-lined Dutch oven that has a chip in the bottom? Where the chip is located you can see the cast iron it is about the size of a nickel. Cindy Dobbs Prairie Grove, Arkansas Yes, you can. Of course you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}