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The Maiden, the Mother, the Crone

The Triple Goddess in Marble and Clay

Join Eileen Bernstein to enjoy and discuss her work on October 8th from 1-3 pm at Domesticities in Youngsville. 

Who is the Triple Goddess? She represents all aspects of the female life.  She is the virgin maiden at the beginning of life.  She is the mother, full of strength and power. She is the crone who has learned life’s secrets and lights the way for others.

Eileen Bernstein interprets the Triple Goddess in clay and stone.  She has found an innate connection with these materials which is inspired by the paleolithic Venus of Willendorf to 20th Century modern sculpture.  She hopes that her work imbues both childlike spontaneity and homage to ancient work.

Eileen has been dabbling in clay for over a decade. Her functional pieces led her to create more sculptural forms, primarily hand built female forms.  Many of her clay pieces are fired using alternative firing methods such as wood, soda, and salt.  This past year she had the opportunity to sculpt marble for the first time in Italy.  She is thrilled to present her three marble sculptures as well as her ceramic sculptures.

The show will be on display from September 29th through October 27th.

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It’s time to order seedlings!

2024 Plant List Now Available

It’s Time to Pre-Order Seedlings!
$4.99/ 4” pot

Download the list here.

Please Pre-Order by March 1.  You can either stop into the shop with your list, or email it to us at cuttinggarden@hotmail.com

No need to pay in advance, but if you don’t receive confirmation by email, please call to make sure we received the order.  845 482 3333.

Plants will be available for pickup around Memorial Day weekend, depending on the weather.

We’ve added some determinate tomato varieties this year. Determinate varieties typically stop growing after they reach two or three feet in height. They also tend to produce most of their fruit at about the same time. Indeterminate varieties, on the other hand, tend to grow and produce fruit throughout the season.  All of the tomatoes listed here are indeterminate unless specifically marked otherwise.

Cherry Tomatoes

  • Black cherry: small red hybrid tomatoes with a bit of purple
  • Black Strawberry: cherry-sized hybrid fruit with a lot of purple
  • Cherry bomb: hybrid cherry tomato with good disease resistance
  • Chocolate Cherry: large heirloom cherry with lots of chocolate coloring and very good flavor
  • Chocolate pear: similar to chocolate cherry but pear-shaped and a hybrid
  • Gardener’s Delight: one of the larger cherries, and an heirloom
  • Jasper: one of the smallest cherry tomatoes
  • Sun Gold: A favorite of gardeners, this hybrid is orange or gold, ripens early and is very sweet
  • Super Sweet 100: small sweet and prolific hybrid
  • Yellow Pear: bright yellow and pear-shaped heirloom tomato

Grape Tomatoes

  • Brad’s Atomic: Multi-colored hybrid grape tomatoes that are fun to grow

Micro Tomatoes

  • Spoon: the tomatoes are tiny and juicy but the hybrid plants are full-sized

Determinate Tomatoes:

  • Celebrity: Hybrid, a long-time favorite with home gardeners, mid-sized and red.
  • Purple Reign: a purple open-pollinated newcomer with good flavor.
  • Carbon: An open-pollinated black variety.
  • Skyway: Hybrid plant produces 8 to 12 ounce fruit, with good disease resistance.

Small Indeterminate Tomatoes:

  • Black Vernissage: a 2 or 3 ounce heirloom tomato with very good flavor.  Like most of the so-called black tomatoes, these tend to be less resistant to diseases than the red and yellow varieties
  • Jaune Flamme: A prolific French heirloom that has been a favorite of Cutting Garden customers.
  • Orange Icicle: This is a Ukrainian variety heirloom with good flavor and very few seeds.
  • Piglet Willey: an heirloom variety, about three inches with red and mahogany coloring.
  • Purple Russian: an open-pollinated variety about three inches long with deep purple coloring.             

Medium Indeterminate Tomatoes:

  • Chianti Rose: an heirloom slicer with the deep pink coloring of a rose.
  • Damsel: a pink hybrid tomato with an heirloom taste that was bred to be disease resistance
  • Early Girl: a long-time gardener favorite, this hybrid tomato ripens earlier than most others.
  • Martha Washington: Another pink hybrid bred for flavor and sturdiness.
  • Purple Heart: This hybrid produces heart-shaped, deep purple fruit

Large Indeterminate Tomatoes:

  • Beefsteak: Meaty heirloom fruits reach one to two pounds.
  • Big Beef: one of the most reliable hybrid producers
  • Big Zac: An heirloom that can produce tomatoes of more than two pounds each.
  • Black Krim is a Russian heirloom with a flavor that’s been described as smokey
  • Brandywine: an open-pollinated variety that has been around for generations
  • Carolina Gold: A large, yellow hybrid tomato with a great flavor
  • Costoluto Genevese: A large, ribbed, red, heirloom tomato that dates back about 200 years,
  • Dad’s Sunset: Large yellow/orange hybrid, sometimes streaked with read, and very mild flavor.                        
  • German Johnson: Large pink heirloom, produces a prolific amount of fruit
  • German Pink: This heirloom originated in Bavaria and has been on the U.S. since                1883.
  • Giant Belgium: Another large, pink, heirloom, this one from Belgium.
  • Kellogg’s Breakfast: This large, yellow, heirloom was bred in Michigan, and like all yellow tomatoes, has a milder flavor than red ones.
  • Mortgage Lifter: An old heirloom variety, the man who developed this tomato, according to gardening lore, sold enough of the plants to pay off the mortgage on his home.
  • Old German: A peach-colored heirloom variety from Germany.
  • Paul Robeson: A large heirloom variety that is red with lots of purple throughout and a lot of deep flavor
  • Pineapple: A large, yellow heirloom tomato shot through with red coloring. The flavor is similar to Striped German and is among the best in the garden.
  • Purple Prudens: A pink/purple heirloom that tolerates a variety of conditions.
  • Rebekah Allen:   Big, red, tasty heirloom slicer
  • Striped German: A large, yellow heirloom tomato shot through with red coloring. The flavor is similar to Pineapple and is among the best in the garden.      30 seeds
  • White Tomesol: Creamy white large hybrid tomato with very mild flavor

Paste Tomatoes

  • Amish Paste: Large paste/sauce tomato  
  • Gilbertie Paste : The largest paste/sauce tomato
  • San Marzano: smaller, most popular paste/sauce tomato

PEPPERS

Sweet Peppers

  • Carmen: Hybrid bull-type sweet red pepper
  • Corno De Torro Rosse: Italian open-pollinated bull-type red pepper
  • Cubanelle: Heirloom, normally used when green, can have mild heat, often used in cooking 
  • Nardello: slim, sweet heirloom peppers about six inches long
  • Pablano: Open pollinated, heart-shaped fruit with a small bit of heat        
  • Red Roaster: Hybrid red bell pepper
  • Shishito: Open-pollinated, small wrinkled fruit with a bit of heat
  • Staddon’s Select: Open-pollinated bell pepper that ripens before most other red peppers
  • Sweet Banana: Six-inch peppers normally pick early when yellow, often picked and used in sandwiches

Hot peppers

  • Carolina Reapers, said to be the hottest pepper available, use caution when handling
  • Cayenne, large: six-inch red cayenne peppers, hot
  • Datil: very hot peppers similar to habanero         
  • Ghost peppers: a Bhutanese pepper with extreme heat
  • Habanero: small orange very hot peppers also called Scotch Bonnets
  • Jalapeno: normally harvested when green, hot but not as fiery as others
  • Lemon drop: bright yellow when ripe, three-inch hot peppers

Ground Cherries

 Very tasty, small sweet/tart fruits in husks. The plants grow about three feet high and four feet across. The berries are ripe and often harvested when they fall to the ground, protected by the papery husk.

Orders due by March 1st, please!

Email your orders to:  cuttinggarden@hotmail.com

Call us with your questions or your order: 845 482 3333

Stop in weekends:  4055 State Rte 52, Youngsville, NY 12791

  • 11-5 Saturdays
    • 11-4 Sundays

Here’s to a great gardening season ahead!

Fritz and Anne

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Zane Grey Plein Air at the garden

JOIN US for an early summer morning to sketch or paint at The Cutting Garden in Youngsville, NY. Enjoy a few hours spent in a cultivated cutting garden during midsummer’s bounty of blooms. Before heading home, you’ll have the option to pick a “Bouquet-to-Go” from the garden.

DATES: Monday, August 14, and Monday, August 21, 10 AM to 12:30 PM EDT

GENERAL ADMISSION: $10, 2.5 hours (uninstructed), or

WORKSHOP: $20 (2 hours) 10:30 – 12:30
“Outdoor Still Life” in the “Russian Impressionist Tradition
Will assemble various items –, flowers, fruits, the platter on a table
If you have any items for sale to contribute we’ll announce otherwise I’ll come with props

LEARN THE BASICS of plein air sketching/painting, from composition selection to materials set up and handling working in pastels, watercolor, or oil. Bring your supplies and we’ll help you get on your way . . .

ABOUT BOUQUET-TO-GO:  Pick a bouquet for your home or perhaps a still life.  Purchase price based on a number of blooms, payable to The Cutting Garden.

For more information, contact: Karen Meneghin or visit our website: ZaneGreyPleinAir.com

Karen Meneghin, the founder of Zane Grey Plein Air, teaches live/online workshops and is a member of AIS (American Society of Impressionists), Lyme Art Association, and Art Students League with recent work shown at Bryan Memorial Gallery in VT and Lyme Art Association and Catherine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club.

LINK TO REGISTER:
https://bit.ly/3OMw2PB

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En Plein Air – Lessons with Helena Pittman

En Plein Air with Helena Pittman July 30th

Enjoy the outdoors and capture its beauty in this class

The Cutting Garden is pleased to host a plein air class with artist and instructor Helena Clare Pittman on July 30th, at 2 pm.  (Rain Date: July 31st) She will guide you through the steps of painting directly from nature, teaching you ways to better understand the landscape and to successfully transfer what you see to your work.  Bring the medium of your choice (watercolor, oil, pastel), brushes, a hat, a stool, and an easel.  Paper will be supplied.  The class fee is $20.00

Helena majored in Painting at Pratt Institute, in Brooklyn, New York, and was awarded her Bachelors of Fine Art degree there. She took her Master of Arts at Antioch, in Painting, Writing and Education.

Helena has taught Color, Illustration and Drawing at The Parsons School of Design; Design, Drawing and Life Drawing at The State University of New York at Farmingdale; Writing and Classroom Methods at The City University of New York, Queens College School of Graduate Education; and Painting, Drawing and Illustration at The Nassau County Museum of Art. She has also taught both children and adults at the Art League of Long Island, as well as worked as an Author/Illustrator in Residence in many public and private schools.

Helena has published 17 books for children, most notably “A Grain of Rice” and “The Gift of the Willows.”

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Shorts & Sweets – Summer Heat!

Summer’s here and we’re feeling the heat! Domesticities and the Cutting Garden in Youngsville, NY, presents Big Sky Productions in a performance of “Shorts & Sweets: Summer Heat,” an afternoon of suggestive jokes and short stories.

This adult-only presentation will be offered on Sunday, July 23 at 2 p.m., and will feature New York City actress and director Sharlene Hartman and Big Sky Productions’ Artistic Director Carol Montana.

Sharlene Hartman has been acting, singing, dancing, writing and directing for most of her life. It all started out in San Francisco, with a broken collarbone and a lisp. Her credits include Off Broadway, indie films, television, live industrials, nightclubs, commercials, voice acting, skit comedy and rap songs. Her heart truly belongs to the theatre, however, most recently she’s been having a love affair with film. Her latest, “Lunch With Leslie,” is currently in festivals, receiving numerous awards, including Best Actress and Best Comedy Short. She simply loves creating a character.

Actress, producer, director Carol Montana has a Master’s Degree in Dramatic Form and Structure from the University of Connecticut. She has directed over 50 plays for her company Big Sky Productions, as well as for the Sullivan County Dramatic Workshop, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Sullivan Performing Arts and Sullivan County Community College. Carol’s current area of concentration, besides “Shorts & Sweets” is Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre produced in cooperation with the Greater Liberty Chamber of Commerce.

There is no charge for admission and refreshments will be served. Audience members may make a freewill offering for the Sullivan County SPCA.

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Internal Landscapes opens June 3rd

Painter, Printmaker and Mixed-Media artist Madelon Jones will be featured in June at Domesticities in Youngsville. Inspired by nature, Madelon’s work expresses that inspiration through abstraction of form and color.  “Growing up in Brooklyn was a gift. Houses with gardens and fruit trees blooming in spring gave me my love of nature. I never wanted to reproduce what I saw, it was perfect as it was. Painting allows me to combine what I see with what I imagine using paint and cut paper to create the abstract forms of birds, fish, flowers and most of all skies and seas that reflect my personal vision. I learned my craft at UCLA receiving a BFA in art, then on to New York City, the School of Visual Arts, and printmaking at The Printmaking Workshop with Bob Blackburn as my mentor. My work has been exhibited throughout the USA, Europe, South America and the Middle East,” she said.

Join her for an opening reception on Saturday, June 3rd from 3 – 5 pm

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Read Anything Good Lately?

Join the authors of a new book of short stories on Sunday, May 21st from 2 – 3 pm to celebrate the launch of their new book, Musings.  
This delightful book takes readers on a captivating journey through a diverse range of short stories bound together by the theme “New Beginnings.” These selections feature twelve eclectic original narratives by eight different authors showcasing a range of unique voices and styles. From tales of love and loss to accounts of adventure and discovery, this anthology has something for everyone.
Join Marylou Ambrose, Dana Bree, Donna Consiglio, Laurie A. Guzda, Elaine Leet, Carol McManus, Susan M. Thompson and Youngsville’s very own Mike Vreeland at Domesticities, 4055 State Rte. 52, Youngsville.  
 

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Mad Ads and Funny Phrases opens May 6th

We’re pleased to welcome back Barbara Winfield’s fun work!  We’re absolutely sure that Barbara has way too much fun creating these pieces, and we’re glad that she does!  
Imagery taken from 1930s and 1940s advertising is combined in witty ways and presented on an abstract background.
Join us at the opening reception on Saturday, May 6th from 3 – 5 pm.

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Helena Pittman Returns April 1st

No Foolin’

“My mother had opened an aluminum folding table in my room and closed the door. There my temperas were lined up.  I had begun drawing as a child, just never stopped. ” 

Helena Pittman returns to Domesticities for the first time in ten years with a selection of recent paintings.
The opening reception will be Saturday, April 1st at 3 pm at Domesticities, 4055 State Route 52, Youngsville. The show will stay up through the month of April.
When speaking of her work, Helena said “I knew at fourteen I’d have to give my life to painting.  I don’t remember how I got to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I most likely traveled by subway with my friend Audrey.  We both majored in Art in High School, drawing and painting every day, five days in school and all weekend.  Audrey’s father was the movie poster illustrator, Moore Kosnet.  I stood in the room of Impressionist Painters at the Met, blinded by the color and light those painting threw, and declared, “These are my people.”  It felt like coming home.  

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It’s time to order seedlings!

2023 Plant List Now Available

It’s Time to Pre-Order Seedlings!
$4.99/ 4” pot

Please Pre-Order by March 1.  You can either stop into the shop with your list, or email it to us. 

No need to pay in advance, but if you don’t receive a confirmation by email, please call to make sure we received the order.  845 482 3333.

Plants will be available for pickup around Memorial Day weekend, depending on the weather.


We did away with a few varieties that we thought did not live up to expectations, especially in the area of flavor.  However, if you want something that is not on the list, let us know and we may be able to start that variety for you.

Click Here to Download the List

Large Tomatoes

Big Beef Plus Martha Washington Pineapple Carolina Gold Carbon German Pink
Big Zac Striped German Abigail Mortgage Lifter Brandywine
Old German Black Krim Giant Belgium

Medium Tomatoes

Early Girl Celebrity Piglet Willy’s French Black Black Vernissage Lemon Boy Damsel Juane Flamme Purple Russian

Cherry Tomatoes

Black Cherry Supersweet 100 Yellow Pear Gardiner’s Delight Cherry Bomb
Brad’s Atomic Grape Chocolate Cherry Chocolate Pear

Paste Tomatoes

Grandadero Tiren Amish Gilbertie San Marzano

Sweet Peppers

Carmen Sprinter Ace King of the North Red Mercury Jimmy Nardello
Sweet Banana Italian Sweet

Hot Peppers

Jalapeno Helios (Early Habanero) Thai Hot Lemon Drop Hot Cherry

Cucumbers 3″ Jiffy Pot $2.99 No Six Packs

Adam F1 Gherkin Diva

Ground Cherries

Aunt Polly’s Sweet Orange

Herbs

Basil, Genovese $2.99
Lavender, Munstead $3.99
Thyme, English Upright $3.50

Miscellaneous

Sedum, Autumn Joy $2.59

Delphinium, Pacific Giant, Black Knight – price varies according to size

Click Here to Download the List

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