The October Garden
Classic Snacks & Appetizers
October, October
Potpourri
400

This cruciferous vegetable has an ornamental version that adds color to the fall garden

What is kale?

400

This is the meat ingredient in pigs in a blanket

What is hot dog?

400

Held in November in America, this holiday is always celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada

What is Thanksgiving?

400

She was a first lady who later married a Greek shipping magnate and became a book editor for Viking Press and Doubleday

Who is Jackie Kennedy-Onassis?

800

When planted in October, this delicious, white, cruciferous vegetable overwinters and is ready for harvest in early summer

What is cauliflower?

800

This animal's "wings" are standard happy hour appetizers

What is chicken?

800

Red delicious, yellow delicious, and Roma varieties of this fruit are harvested in October

What are apples?

800

This is the shape of a yield sign in the United States

What is a triangle?

1200

These purple, daisy-like flowers can be found in the garden until the first frost

What are asters?

1200

Tortilla chips are often served with salsa and this type of pepper

HINT: It's the state pepper of Texas

What is jalapeno?

1200

These financial black swan events often happen in October

What are stock market declines or crashes?

1200

This country is Europe's only remaining dictatorship

What is Belarus?

1600

October is the perfect month to start this sweet Italian herb indoors to provide a year-round supply for making pesto

What is basil?

1600

This Italian cheese is cut into sticks, coated with breading, and then deep fried

What is mozzarella?

1600

This divided country was reunited in October 1990

What is Germany?

1600

With the tagline "A love story of today," this film stars Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn as a young couple in love

What is Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?

2000

October is the best month to plant this stalky harbinger of spring. The hardy perennial will take two or three years to be ready for your kitchen table

What is asparagus?

2000

Sour cream and a packet of onion soup mix have been the two ingredients of this standby dip since at least the 1960's

What is French onion dip?

2000

When it's not a harvest moon, the name of October's full moon is this

What is the hunter's moon (or sanguine or blood moon)?

2000

The gland in the human body responsible for producing insulin

What is the pancreas?