In 1937, 22 feet of water stood over
these raised beds.
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I asked Angie what was that earthen wall.
She said, it's holding back the Ohio
River. I said, I have to see this.
Ashland was home to no less than five
Native American groups when Scots-Irish
settled there in 1783. Iron deposits were
discovered in Ashland in 1800, which led
to an influx of industry over the next
two centuries. Oh, wow.
The Ohio River is a massive waterway
nearly a thousand miles long.
For centuries, iron, coal, and petroleum
have made their way up nearly 200 miles
of the Big Sandy and into the mighty
Ohio, bound for destinations across the
Eastern United States. In 1937,
everybody along the Ohio and Mississippi
Rivers knew what was coming, but they
couldn't stop it.
It's been called The Great Flood. The
flood reached its high point of 74.3 feet
on January 27th.
In 1938,
Congress authorized Ashland for the
Flood Control Act, however, it took two
more floods in 1943 before work began in 1949.
The Ashland-Catlettsburg flood wall system
features 13,530 feet
of reinforced concrete dike,
777 feet of earth levee,
six pump stations and 17 traffic openings
through the wall. It was completed in 1953.
Robert Dafford, one of the most
prolific and successful muralists in
America, painted the nine original murals,
with the interconnected goals of
historic preservation, education, and
economic development.
Flooding along the Ohio is really not
that uncommon. As we turned to the car, I
spotted an amazing garden across the
road and ran over to investigate.
It belongs to Judy Fannin, locally known
for her gardens, her cookbooks, and her
generosity. This is a Northeaster and
it's very, it's the best bean I've ever
had.
No strings, all you do is take the ends
like this, and you get five or six pieces.
I mean mm-hmm
cook them just like half riders listen
bacon grease and a ham hock and onion
pepper and add salt at the end and
they're great and I used to grow
feathers and three ocular beans these so
just these and why did you switch
because no string no just cause they're
so tasty oh this is a much better feed
it tastes like it's very hard to find
only I think it's Johnny's selected
seeds and you have to get a very early
good because it's sell out but uh keep
on being a watch
- they're just not good at it these are
potatoes okay they're all this is a
white white sweet potato which is what I
love candy sweet potatoes and I have
recipe books I'll have to show you my
recipe okay maybe it could be a plug for
those
yeah I've got some daddy I'll give me
one so this is the meter
you've heard of Beauregard yes Henry and
it's almost a white woman Beauregard is
not it's not a these are sweet potatoes
not games this will give me and that's
sweet potatoes for the whole town for
the whole what County
I made this oh this would be but we pick
these up people and someone will be this
bit ghetto and what will you do the is
giveaway oh wow one year by church the
youth group got these a little bit and
they raised $400 they they sold them
they made a sweet potato cookbook and
it's online on Etsy it's a juke cook of
GE fanuc and there's a sweet potato
cookbook and the young people at church
helped me dig a mince ultimate Church
tell me the difference between a white
the white southern white sweet potato
and them is those real dark orange
they're kind of mealy I don't know how
they're starting their fabrice yeah
stringy and the white sweet potato is
dense like a white potato really but
it's a sweet potato and it's marvelous
my mother-in-law
cooked them made the candies with the
Davis sweet potatoes I know you know
this are going all over the world every
country and probably you're the best
vegetable that we could ever eat to be
honest with you including the leaves do
you eat the leaves oh you can oh yeah
they're wonderful yeah but I didn't know
they bloomed it so this year this
women I don't remember member blooming
in the past yeah you put the sweeper the
leaves are marvelous usually my peppers
are not doing this well are we in the
season the leaves fall off but they're
doing pretty good the only green ones I
have are here so nobody I don't let
anybody else pick them see I'm getting
number this is a jalapeno this may be
its emit this is a Pomona I've got
yellow orange purple and red I've
already picked some purple but I can't
pick him yet returned and I've got about
eight kinds of cucumbers somebody
watered when I was gone and they got
some water on the leaves you cannot use
city water to water vegetables so I was
sick I was out of town for two weeks oh
this is love okra this is regular grow
and now had a whole row of the grid open
but only these three came up so I didn't
even know those three are coming up so I
plant it they put it but they like to be
sheltered by the open you know nothing
likes potatoes white potatoes have blue
potatoes so you can ever plant those
with anything else or you'll kill them
and this is a little flower bed there
goes cosmos disease that's kale is it
late for kale yeah Morty cook to missus
but I'm just leaving it up for the show
know if this will be good good yeah ko
actually will survive the heat pretty
well here yeah I was gone and we had
planted another wrong there it goes
and the marigold seeds may come up like
this is not fair
like five or six years you know if you
don't cut it but it's is high then it
goes to asparagus for that it's still
coming up inside one right I don't have
my knife I'd better move the waitress
mark and there's two there will cut you
see those two there that little beef
about right by tomorrow here's a note
and you cannot cut this phone down wait
till the last thing the asparagus firm
you cannot be trimmed back
you can't hit him before they are
finished with their cycle because if you
cut them too early then asparagus won't
come back or if it does it'll be really
weak because it start in not this year
no well it takes years to get it goes
yellow squash and zucchini I just picked
I'll wait till tomorrow so you got some
mildew no I do too late too late to
spray some they'll do before it ever
appears and I fight it with my dahlias
and seniors and flocks in your flower
gardens so there's a spray can what's
the name of the spray you use the mildew
nice mix of it see it's already hit this
is it's too late I told us so do you
just cut the leaves that have the mildew
and and I've never had it this early but
that might be a good idea huh these are
my sunflowers I'm gonna plant another
row I gotta go out and here's my boards
now look what what all the last few
years at my flower gardener that behind
Lexington I've grown the gourds last
year the deer a everyone when they're
about this high
yep so I moved them down here and
because you've got a fence around this
whole thing there's no deer here there's
where one tracks over there and then a
highway I've never seen a deer down here
ever
they couldn't jump this but they could
jump the whole day
this is Kim Jenkins I already told her
you're a babysitter for her family what
is your role in this garden I designed
it originally yes she did because my son
wanted to learn how to
so we designed this party because my
grandfather had been a farmer in North
Georgia
he raised peaches had a wonderful peach
orchard pigs chickens and vegetables and
would go around in his truck and sell to
the old-timey country stores and I was
living with him but my father was in
World War two so I would get on the back
of the truck they allowed that and go in
and sell my granddaddy's produce that's
how I love a garbage started but this
I'd always had Gardens out of the in the
country we had a big house out there at
several big gardens and Kim was our
babysitter she probably helped to the
garden then we moved to town and I told
you that the deer ain't up all the
vegetables at my flower garden so when
the Sun wanted to learn to garden any on
this building Kim designed it and it had
all these fish they've been replaced
once so they probably could be replaced
again I think we had well Kim has
discovered poison ivy so she's a
perfectionist wonderful landscape
business this is unusual because we're
on the tour it has to be perfect I mean
nearly perfect with each year in the
last three years the weeds have gotten
progressively worse and worse and worse
and so we fought it and so we're
fighting it that's we're waiting for
about the fifth or sixth time already
Oh Johnson grass over here was this was
always my lettuce bed but last year
because it really liked this location
but I took my lettuce and grew it in in
town in pots and it did great
I had romaine and big huge heads in pots
so everything else I don't have any corn
one year I tried but you had they're
supposed to have four rows and
pollination and I don't haven't been as
big enough my name is Judy Fannin I've
ever national Kentucky
my vegetable garden in Catlettsburg
because you cannot grow vegetables in
Ashland nationally or anywhere because
of all the deer eat everything I thought
I saw a hood I plant everything too much
together usually nothing you know only
half of it is oh okay here's that do
something that will become a okra I
think see that little thing why I got a
plan for this
I'll bring it tomorrow so you can see it
it's Rapunzel I love it
see them all I knew this yeah there's
one day I mean this is a rudkus tomatoes
heirloom tomatoes you have to pick
before they ride it and you cannot
sucker them either so therefore I don't
know which about tomatoes are air
movement which art so I'd have it sucker
them the tasteful tomato I think that's
where I'll order some of my plate this
is a wonderful sight in Alabama it's
tasteful the tasteful garden sorry and
they have wonderful plants they're
expensive they're like 535 each but they
have some varieties that are just
awesome and they're mostly heirlooms and
you do not sucker them I did not know
that of course they're there just handed
down and then the hybrid tomatoes you
can but I'm not sure this other friends
say yeah see how he's put these and see
that one back here come back here
you said I had to put me in your not
miss these little cherry these small
Tomatoes they could just get big this is
beef master I would say 12 or 15 maybe
and this one is gorgeous this plant here
can you see there boy they're all over
it yeah huge I use pantyhose I use hoes
I tied by dahlias for them and then I
think they look well for tomatoes but it
doesn't rub them that's like wrong wrong
just as like as they come out and then
it can you see how mm-hmm see this is
what I use on dan from Titleist
do we have everything okay yeah just
kept carrying it around because I didn't
know if it start
this is the best dirt 2,000 years River
flooding lot area so it's like black
gold go yeah well how does flooding make
soil richer right now it's all dirty
sand abuses floods it so no building has
ever been in this spot yes this was 800
recipes that's my house it's an avenue
yes this is it's month-to-month it's
fabulous took recipes from the other
2,200 and I organized them in categories
like May is all Kentucky recipes and
December is all the holiday recipes and
April is all seafood if you read this
forward it's just a story this this was
a gift to my family and friends I send
out letters to my Christmas card Nestor
gave away about $325 I'm now on my 19th
printing of this I mean everybody just
loves us
Wow they don't cook they read them no my
newest one I did not put the people's
tonight there's everything
Maggie is all Kentucky Kentucky Derby
Bob that's all I'm saying
that's all I'm saying see Marcia Vanover
do you know her she she's an artist
local artist yeah so she did my artwork
from my HC there's March its hoops
shamrocks and bunnies st. Patrick's its
theme related February's menus for those
you love five menus from each of my kids
it's just a fabulous so that's the cover
November is all new recipes that your
people still send recipe but this is the
last trip
everything in this one I have about 140
of my recipes and this one I don't have
members but they're 800 here 1,400 and
these two these two go together and then
this is my ladies
this tells a story the second one
okay I'm 79 and I'm just kind of run
circles around the little
whippersnappers people say that no yeah
you seem that way sure they have a lot
of energy I'm very thankful and so and I
love gardening and my husband I used to
travel a lot but says he's passed that
part of me is gone I saw my house in
Florida and the Florida residents I'm
now back a Kentucky resident I love that
life and Kentucky income tax so I have
my Gardens behind my house on Lexington
up in 2008 i decorate the front porch is
a wonderful christmastime one of my
comes by to take their family portraits
and then they come by for promise and
homecoming and weddings Wow so I have a
wonderful place for pictures wonderful
garden out back across the alley with
dahlias and seniors and a few of mayor
goes on a few things that the deer
haven't eaten yet
I love all these vegetables my cookbooks
have tons of recipes for vegetables
because I've been doing this all my life
and so there are lots of ways to fix
eggplant and zucchini and it's just it's
kind of a labor of love and it gets a
little bit harder it's harder to get
help I need do need some help so it's a
struggle sometimes it's not always fun
like everybody thinks it is because
really I have to prepare plant weed
cultivate pick cook and deliver
it's what I'm doing last week I
delivered like eight things of beans two
people already cooked are you just
giving all the so ideas yeah these are
just friends
what enjoy them and it's just kind of a
what do they call it in church you're
not a calling but uh it's kind of a
calling I call it a cloud as I used to
do flowers for hospice I'm a sharer I
like to share whatever God has given me
people my houses have been on tours my
gardens are on tours I share the produce
just share all this rice that's been
very good to our family all right so
you're giving her this is four different
kinds isn't it yeah oh thank you have
this kind but I have six cards see you
have this sticks up aha
that's a goodness called up well my
chart I have my chart and this is a
different kind this is stripe but I
don't think this is different time that
the grace trap what they call great
sorrow I have a brain but that's not
right this is cook Nick and strength oh
I can't get it to spit okay you guys put
it in the egg and then in my mix a flour
cornmeal a pinch of sugar and salt okay
rain started to pour and Angie and I
made a run for the car you will see
Judy's Lexington Avenue garden later in
the series thanks for watching and
please share my Kentucky roadtrip with
your friends
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