tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79451861254510360912024-02-21T04:20:08.864-08:00Down in the Dirt with Diana all things gardening Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161793248110165678noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945186125451036091.post-29391015158884956622014-03-13T09:41:00.001-07:002014-03-20T09:28:25.330-07:00The Beauty of Buds<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Flowers are starting to bloom and leaves are unfurling everywhere. But before we leave the dormant season completely, I wanted to do a short visual essay on the architectural beauty that is inherent in the bud stage. The details just get more beautiful as we focus in. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hi there ! Once again, I got behind in my posting, but spring is on the way and there is so much to write about, and in my next post I will get to what's happening in the garden and around town, but first I have a little catching up to do.<br /> </span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There have been 4 (!) 'Down in the Dirt with Diana' radio shows since I last wrote. (Don't ask me where I've been.) Here's an update. </span></b></h3>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On January 28, 2014 We <span style="background-color: #fcfcfc;"> talked to Salem gardener, retired Science teacher and worm enthusiast Sally White all about the wonders of those little red wigglers, what great things they do for our gardens, and how we can raise them for their worm castings and for the fun of it !</span></span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On February 11, 2014 we had a fabulous discussion with Salem Rose Society president Maryann Bierne about the correct way to prune roses in the Pacific NW. She gave us some great information and special hints, and explained why this is such a great place to grow roses. </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the last set of pictures from my Jan. 2 Salem walk-about. I hope you enjoy them. There will be more coming soon. I was happy to see that some buds are starting to expand already, and some early blooming bulbs are already starting to emerge. Oh my. </span></div>
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<br />Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161793248110165678noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945186125451036091.post-2083188052725868372014-01-03T11:01:00.000-08:002014-01-03T23:57:36.857-08:00Walking around Salem - part 2 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is "part 2" of the photos I took on my walk around the neighborhood yesterday. I've barely begun to discover the details around me, and with a new camera on the way, expect a lot more of this! See the Jan. 2 post for Part 1. </span><br />
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161793248110165678noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945186125451036091.post-77352386308793463632014-01-02T21:16:00.000-08:002014-01-03T23:57:56.054-08:00Walking Around Salem, Part 1 <div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here we go, sliding headlong into 2014. It has been dry and somewhat mild for the last couple of weeks here in Salem, Oregon. Today it's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">in the mid-40's and overcast - good walking weather. I don't mean to sound unsympathetic to our neighbors to the east (and just about everyone in the country is east of us!) who are being blasted by serious winter storms, but I am so glad to be here, and not there. I grew up in Chicago and have lived through some brutal winters, so I do sympathize. It was a good place to be FROM. This nice dry weather is a mixed blessing, though, since it comes with a cost. 2013 was the driest year on record in Salem, (since records began to be kept in 1892) - 23.50 inches, compared to an average of 39.67 inches. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The driest year to date, up until 2013, was 1985. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #37404e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I've been out walking today, camera in hand, exploring. Our neighborhood is full of charming houses, little garden niches, and surprises. The next few posts I make will be mostly photos. There are too many for one post, so I'm spreading </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">it out. </span></div>
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161793248110165678noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945186125451036091.post-21794306390568998352014-01-01T23:33:00.000-08:002014-01-01T23:34:59.543-08:00Christmas Eve Show - Talking to Local Gardeners <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the link to the podcast of our C</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">hristmas Eve Show. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In this show, I asked 5 local gardeners about
something that they really liked in their gardens this year. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jerry talks about some favorite shrubs that
have winter interest. Kris tells us about her dwarf fruit trees. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beth shares the building of a special private
niche in her garden, JJ discusses Vaccinum (the Blueberry family) and Alice discusses
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Dianahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08161793248110165678noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945186125451036091.post-49228118257362096582013-12-27T22:14:00.000-08:002013-12-28T09:46:01.494-08:00MASON BEES, A LOOK AT SALLY’S PERENNIAL BORDER IN WINTER, COMPOSTING, AND POINSETTIAS. <div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This episode of ‘Down in the Dirt with Diana’, broadcast on 11/26/2013, was so much fun. My first guest was Carol Horning, ‘the Bug
Lady’, from the Marion County, Oregon, Master Gardener program, talking about
raising Orchard Mason Bees. These little black bees are one of our native
species and very hard working pollinators for about 6 weeks in early spring,
just when most of the fruit trees are blooming. And they are industrious, buzzing so fast from flower to flower that one
bee can do the work of 100 honeybees! Because they carry loads of pollen on special
hairs on their abdomen, instead of in packets on their legs as honeybees do,
they are 95% effective at pollinating the flowers they visit, as opposed to the
honeybees at 5% effectiveness. They are also speedy,
visiting twice as many flowers in a day than honeybees do. </span></div>
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laying their eggs in any convenient tube-like hollow about 6” deep and about
5/16” wide. They are easy going, cute
little critters, and do not sting, so they are easy and fun to raise and to keep
around. There are easy ways to make appropriate nesting tubes to keep them where you
want them. Carol talks about their life cycle, their needs, and how to make nesting tubes for them. If you are in the Salem area, you can see how the mason bee houses
are constructed at the Marion County Master Gardener demonstration garden at
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extraordinary Salem gardener, both in the organic vegetable line, and in
ornamental gardening. She is an extremely knowledgeable plantswoman, a
collector of unusual plants, and so not much is in ordinary in her garden. The
topic of our discussion this day was her long curved double sided perennial/shrub
border. She is of the garden philosophy
that it is best to leave the plants to die back naturally, letting the leaves and seed heads
lie, mulch it all, but wait until spring to do the major cleanup. By this time most of the leaves and stems,
etc., will have decomposed to become a healthy soil addition and to help feed the
plants for next year. I like her
thinking. She does cut back the seed
heads of some particularly problematic reseeders like Ligularia, but, for the
most part, she just deals with reseeding when it comes. And because she has a fairly dense covering
of plants, most of the perennial and weed seeds never have a chance to
germinate. There is always something in
bloom in her garden. The day that I was
visiting, there were Camellias, Daphnes, and some beautiful bright yellow Mahonias in flower. As of this writing, we have just come out of
an extended deep freeze. Before this freeze occurred, I would have said that Witch Hazel (<i>Hamamelis</i>), <i>Garrya</i> (Silk tassel), <i>Edgeworthia </i>(a Daphne relative) and Wintersweet (<i>Chimonanthes
praecox</i>) would be in bloom soon. Now I'm not so sure. It
will be interesting to see what buds have been damaged beyond repair. For sure, the <i>Edgeworthia</i>
and Winterweet buds are frozen, based on previous experience. </span></div>
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the Seattle Chapter of the North America Rock Garden Society on ‘The Sex Life
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a great and receptive
group of people they are. It feels like my 3</span><sup style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">rd</sup><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> home (after Salem and Battle Ground). I spent the night with my good
friends Judith and Vanca in Judith’s beautiful log home on 5 gorgeous acres studded with giant Sitka Spruce, Douglas Fir and quirky artwork, on the Skykomish River, in Gold Bar, WA. Judith Jones, as some of you might know, is
the proprietor of Fancy Fronds Nursery, one of the premier fern nurseries anywhere. In fact
Judith herself is one of the world’s experts on ferns. If you are interested in ferns, (and really, can you have too many?) check out her informational web site at</span></div>
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<b><a href="http://www.fancyfronds.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.fancyfronds.com/</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I’m in mulch mode. The wind and rain has finally knocked all the leaves off the nearby
trees. The house
next door sits empty for now and that property is where most of the leaves are coming from. I can only hope that the new
occupants will be as generous with their leaves as the last owner. They never minded that i would help rake them and haul them away. Perhaps the new owners will be gardeners and want to keep all the
leaves for themselves. But that would be good. There is certainly no shortage of leaves around
here. Over the weekend, I picked up 8 giant black plastic bags full of Linden Tree leaves that someone had set out by the curb for
pickup. I will probably set some of
these aside for next summer when leaves are not so easy to come by and I will be needing some for
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The borders and beds are all covered now, to a depth of 3–6“, but I already see the leaves compacting. What I didn't use on the beds are in one of my several compost piles. There is one under the
front window hidden from view by the Scarlet Runner Bean trellis, and one in the back corner of the garden by the vegetable beds. My hot compost pile will be in the back
under the pear tree. I have been holding back some of the bags of coffee
grounds I picked up at Starbucks, along with kitchen scraps, and bags of grass clippings for
about 6 weeks now, and I will be making one big pile all at once, hopefully by the end of this week. These, along with the leaves from the pear
tree and from the neighbors English Walnut tree that hangs over our fence, and a
few big sacks of the Red Maple leaves and the Linden will go into making a ‘hot’ pile. The last few years, I have been
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of Norway Maple leaves along the fence line. There is a little dip there, so there is an
extra thick layer of leaves. Maple
leaves like these take longer to break down, (unless you run them
over with a mower first, or shred them in some way) but if not, they usually
have just barely begun to decompose by spring. So, I took a couple of buckets of kitchen scraps and added a layer of
them in the mulch, and I am also going to be adding some handfuls of alfalfa
meal. Alfalfa meal is a
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porch! Apparently one of the stems wormed its way through an opening in the
window earlier this year, and it took off, now it's growing up against the
inside of the window, full of buds, and every once in a while one opens. The plant is rooted outside by the corner of the
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The first episode of 'Down in the Dirt with Diana' (the radio show) on KMUZ 88.5
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and co-owner of Farwest Gardens, a
design/build company in Salem Oregon, in the horticulture business since 1976, discussing sheet composting, also
referred to as Lasagna gardening. See his work at his website: </span><a href="http://farwestgardens.com/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>http://farwestgardens.com/</b></a></div>
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either build a frame for a raised bed, or just mound it up. If the ground is
compacted, (and usually it is) take a
pitch fork and poke the ground in spots, rocking the tines back and forth, just
loosening the ground a little for better
drainage and to let the water penetrate. Make sure the soil is moist before starting the layers. Of course this
is usually not a problem at this time of year. Think of sheet composting like making a big
flattened compost pile, but without ever having to turn it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First lay down a thick layer of overlapping newspapers,
about 6-10 sheets, or a thick piece of
cardboard. This will kill the grass and weeds
beneath it and add a lot of organic matter to the soil as the grass and weeds decompose. On top of this layer add alernate layers of what, in the compost world, are referred to as 'browns' or 'greens'. The microorganisms that are responsible for
the breakdown need a combination of a carbon source (the browns) and a nitrogen
source (the greens). On top of the first layer of newspaper or cardboard, add alternate layers of the same ingredients you would add to a compost pile. ‘Browns’ are anything that have a high carbon
content, like leaves, newspaper or straw, and the ‘greens’ are vegetable scraps, grass clippings, coffee grounds,
manure. Add them in layers about 2–4”
deep, making the brown layers about twice as thick as the greens, moistening
each layer as you go, until you have reached about 2’. Add a few shovelfuls of soil or finished
compost occasionally - this helps to
stimulate the breakdown by adding some
necessary microorganisms. Finish the pile
off with a layer of leaves or straw, then just let it sit. Cover it with plastic or groundcloth if the leaves start blowing away. By spring the
layers will have broken down and compacted enough to plant directly into the
pile. If the newspaper layer is very thick,
or if you used cardboard, this first layer may not have broken down completely.
To overcome this, just take a shovel or a pitchfork and cut down into it in
spots, or dig a hole under the starts you are planting to give the roots of whatever may plant there a place to easily
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Steve Vinisky, my second guest, is the proprietor of Cherry Creek Daffodils at <b> <a href="http://www.cherrycreekdaffodils.com/">http://www.cherrycreekdaffodils.com/</a> </b> and an internationally known expert on bulbs. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He told us that the Willamette Valley is one of the 5 best growing areas in the world for bulbs</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. He breeds Daffodils, mostly miniatures, and explained to us that daffodils are such great garden plants, for one,
because they are ‘critter proof’ – deer, mice, voles, all steer clear of them. The
three things to remember when planting bulbs are full sun, well
drained soil, and no summer water. However, some bulbs are more forgiving in this area, and can take some watering in a garden situation. . </span></div>
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when you notice a decrease in flowering. Daffodils (as many other bulbs) do extremely well in containers, as long as you keep the bulbs from freezing. This is as simple as bringing the dormant pot into a garage or basement, or digging a hole and plunging it into the ground. For an
extra show, try making a 'Superpot" - planting up a container of daffodils or other bulbs in layers. In a large 10"-12" container, add about 6-8” of soil, place a layer of bulbs with the sides touching, then add enough soil to cover the bulbs just to the tips. Add another layer of bulbs alternating with the first layer. You can stop here or add another layer. Try mixing varieties or even types of bulbs. I'm going to try this one ! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are lots of bulb-related festivals and events in spring, and I will be listing them on the garden event calendar as they come up, but a very special one to keep in mind is the Amity Daffodil Festival.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And in case you were wondering, Daffodils and Narcissus are the same thing (the number one asked question). Narcissus is the scientific name for what we commonly call Daffodils. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(<b>Nomenclature note:</b> The Narcissus was named for the beautiful youth in Greek Mythology who drowned while admiring his own reflection in the water. After he died, the gods took pity on him, and since they could not restore him to mortal life, they made a beautiful flower out of him that would bloom every spring.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received a high compliment this week. I was working in the front garden, when 3 typically
noisy teenage boys came strutting their way down the street, talking their
jive, pushing each other around a bit, trying to act cool. One of the boys looks at me and says, unexpectedly,
“Hey, I love your garden”. Then one of the other boys, the biggest,
baddest of the bunch, smiles and says “Yeah, you have a bad-ass
garden!” and gave me some sort of thumbs up type hand sign that I can’t quite
remember right now. Oh</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> yeah, I’m cool –</span></div>
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that the upcoming days were forecasted to be warm and sunny, and I was trying to give
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, waiting this long was a bad
judgment. First the good news: ‘<i>Chocolate Stripes</i>’ yielded 20 more pounds of (mostly green) tomatoes at this last picking, bringing the total pounds harvested, on this one
plant, to over 77 pounds! ‘<i>Brandywine</i>’,
though consistently at or near the top of the taste tests, is known to be a somewhat
poor producer – still, there was an additional 14 pounds picked, for a
total of 52 pounds. I can live with that.
The bad news is that the pounding rain
we had in September took a toll. Either it was physical damage to the tomatoes,
or the quick influx of water through the system of the plants from the rain,
but almost all 35 pounds of the newly picked tomatoes had some sort of brown watery
spot on them, and I knew it would be a race to see if they would
ripen before the rot spread too far. They
have been sitting on the counter now for 6 days, and a few of them that were nearest
to ripening have turned red, and we were able to salvage about half of each of
them. There are some pretty big tomatoes there, and even half of
one of these is a respectable size. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But they are going downhill fast, and I've already delegated some to the compost pile.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, I think most of them will be
a loss. So I guess I can’t honestly say that I got 125 pounds of EDIBLE tomatoes from these 2 plants, but they
were harvested nonetheless. So it counts. Next year I need to be more diligent in
picking them before the rain and cold hits. Every year is a learning process. And I never consider it a waste if something
ends up feeding my compost pile. It’s all part of the cycle. </span></div>
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plants, neatening up the perennials and cutting back annuals at ground level, leaving their roots in the ground
to decompose. I’m trying to disturb the soil as little as possible. I see
no reason to pull them out, as long as there is no evidence of root
disease or insects problems. I think it will be good for the soil to let them decay in
place. And I've cleared enough debris out now to see where the English Ivy, bindweed
and fireweed have encroached into my space from our neighbor’s yard along the
fence line. It took a while to dig them and pull them out, but I know I am just
stemming the tide. They'll be back. </span></div>
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with scattered blooms, climbing up the remains of the holly trunk. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a good plant for this situation, as it is a
fast grower and a prolific bloomer. I was pairing it with 'Heavenly Blue' morning
glories, which in theory sounds beautiful to me, I love the orange/blue color combo,
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- don’t bother with the <i>‘Heavenly Blue</i>’ morning glories planted
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fabulous color combination, but for 2 years in a row the morning glories were
such a struggle, started blooming so late, the leaves would wilt easily, and they never really lived
up to the image I had. And don’t bother
with the expensive gallon size plants of the Thunbergia. The one
from the 4” pot I planted was just as big and healthy as the one from the
gallon after a few weeks of growth, actually better. And use more of them the garden next year, maybe in different colors.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Plant profile: Thunbergia alata</b> <i>(Black eyed Susan Vine)</i> Native to tropical areas of East Africa, this twining vine is perennial and evergreen in warmer climates (zone 10) but for most of us it is grown as an annual, blooming all summer and fall, from seed sown in spring. It is a fast grower and a prolific bloomer, with attractive, broadly toothed, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">elongated arrow or heart shaped</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> leaves with a rough texture. It covers itself with a multitude of flowers with 5 spreading petals, about 1 1/2 across. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The typical color is a warm orange with a dark brownish spot in the center, but there are varieties in various shades of oranges, yellows, and white, with or without the dark eye spot, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most references give the growth rate to about 8' in a season, but ours has grown over 10' this year. In its native habitat and in warm climates, overwintering as a perennial vine, it can reach 20' or more. It is an excellent choice as a seasonal covering for a trellis or a fence, up the side of a house, or as a quick cover for an unsightly corner. The thin stems twine, but they need something to twine on, so give it some kind of support to twist itelf around. It is frequently used in hanging baskets, where it will trail to about 4'. It does best in average soil, average watering, and full sun or afternoon shade. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><i>Thunbergia</i></b> - named for Carl Peter Thunberg (1743-1827), a Swedish naturalist and student of medicine, who spent many years in Africa and Japan exploring for plants. considered to be the Father of South African Botany. </span></div>
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on for the birds. I like seeing the chickadees hanging upside down, pecking out
the seeds. But now the stems are cut back
to stumps, (again, no point in pulling out the roots ) and the few heads that still
had seeds in them are now lying face up on the ground and the birds (and squirrels
) are still working on them. A bright blue California Jay was pecking away at them yesterday morning – bossy bully
birds, but what a color! Kind of like ‘<i>Heavenly Blue</i>’ morning glories on the
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trellis that is covered with Scarlet Runner beans in summer, was decomposed
enough to use as mulch, so it is now spread over the area that I just cleaned
up. It looks better already, and if nothing else was done to this area, I feel
like it is ready for winter. But there will
still be cleanup to attend to. There were a few zinnias and cosmos with
flowers, so I left those. The spots of color are nice, and the bees and other
pollinators are still out looking for food. The curly parsley that I planted last year (2012) was left to go to seed
this year, so I am seeing LOTS of parsley seedlings germinating under the
plants. I don’t think I will ever have to plant it again if I just keep letting at least one go to seed, and keep transplanting the
seedlings to better spots. They make such a lovely edging to the flower borders, The frilly foliage is so clean and rich looking, so
pretty, and so tasty, and the flowers are such lovely green umbels, swarming
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I borrowed this great gardening helper last weekend. A seat for weeding, then turn it over and you have a comfy padded kneeler! Actually, it was a gift to my Mom many years ago, when we thought she could use it, as she was getting older. You can see it's been well used. She is no longer with us, but I came across it in my dad's garage and thought, now isn't that a great idea! So, am I getting old, or just smart? Don't answer that. </span></div>
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rose person. They always seem to be more trouble than they are worth, and most
rose bushes lack any sense of grace, in my eyes. That said, there are
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don’t like plants that stick me. Last week, I spent way
too many hours with my friend Kim, pulling overgrown blackberries out of the
display garden at the nursery in Battle Ground - humongous arching canes that
seemed to come out of nowhere, poking up through thickets of overgrown shrubs, sometimes
arching out 20' or more - 3 big pickup
truck loads worth of brambles - 3
smashed down, overflowing loads. We are both showing the battle scars. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And blackberries are really, in a way, just little roses. Well,
sort of. They are, after all, in the same family (Rosaceae). And yes, I know
you shouldn’t judge someone by the family he was born into, but still – a prickle is a prickle is a prickle. (b</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">lackberries and roses technically have prickles, not thorns. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Prickles are outgrowths of the epidemis - the outer skin of the stem. They grow all long the stem and are usually easy to break off without damaging the stem. Roses and blackberries have them, in abundance! </span></div>
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comes from 2 Greek words - <i>pyr</i>: meaning 'fire' – think funeral pyre
or pyromaniac) and <i>akanthos</i> – meaning 'thorn' – so, literally, ‘Fire thorn’. This is also the common name of this plant,
because of the fiery orange or red clusters of berries it gets in the fall, and
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disease resistant plant, can be lovely. And no one can argue that the fragrance is heady and intoxicating. And those bright orange or red rose hips are very
pretty and very healthy for us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, I admit to not knowing as much about roses as perhaps I
should and so maybe I am pre-judging. But I do
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have seen some very effective and clean looking shrub
roses. In fact I have one - ‘Paprika’ in the ‘Oso Easy’ series of landscape
roses. I really do like his one. The color is exactly right, the size is right (I
can easily keep to about 3 x 3, with occasional selective pruning.) I like that
it is bushy and forms a nice foliage mound with small, glossy, dark green leaves that have never had a spot of
disease, and it just keeps blooming all summer with 2”+ open faced flowers that
the bees love. There are other colors in
this series, but I only have room for one. So, see, maybe I do like roses ! </span> </div>
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is mine. A rose that I really love, and this
one is BECAUSE OF the prickles, is a species rose called (get ready) <b>Rosa sericea forma pterocantha</b>, or
sometimes called <b>Rosa omeiensis forma
pterocantha</b> (the Flora of China lists these as separate species - small differences , but both
have the ‘pterocantha’ form - botanists
don’t always agree) – nevertheless, it is the <b>pteracantha</b> part here that is the key. Now these are prickles I can get behind! They are huge and beautifully
translucent red and they light up like lanterns when the sun shines through them. It is the main reason that gardeners grow this one. It gets much
too large for our little garden in Salem, but it’s a pretty cool plant and I would
grow it if I had room to spare. It has
small white flowers in early summer, but they come and go quickly, lovely but
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growing in the front corner of the garden this week. It has been here at least 26 years, and I am
guessing that it is much older than that. Since I have known it, it has always had black
spot and mildew, has been somewhat misshapen, sort of weak, and this year I
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Marc does love his roses. But we all
have a life span, and this one, I’m afraid, had reached the end of hers. It had a long life, and it is time to make
room for the younger generation. If it
does in fact have the mosaic rose virus as I suspect, it is probably the reason
that it never lived up to its potential, at least on my watch, and
will just continue to get weaker with time. So it is in the compost bin now, soon to be on its way to the municipal compost heap. But I thanked it for its long life and the pleasure it gave to Marc and to anyone else who paid
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everything counts. In preparation though,
I started a little mini compost pile in the hole where the rose was. I loosened the soil to about 20” deep and a little
wider around, dumped in a bucket load of food scraps, added some of the not-quite
finished compost from the pile that I am using for mulch, and mixed it with the
soil from the hole, making sure that any food scraps were deeply covered. By next spring, the worms and microorganisms
will have done their job and I should have a nice fertile spot for something
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, after the rainfest we had in September (wettest September on
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weeks of October, we are cycling around to something just a little more comfortable. Can anyone say 'perfect'? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And that's good because there is so much to do in the garden right now. Major clean-up is underway, and there is no telling how long this fine weather will last, so I better get busy. Most of the annuals have succumbed to the ravages of old age, coupled with cold nights and driving rain. Z</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">innia heads are soggy sad. T</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">he perennials are dying back, sending their energy to their roots to fortify themselves for winter. Some of the hostas have bright yellow fall color, but the leaves have started to show the dry brown spotting of decay. Dying stems are getting all tangled up in each other and browning leaves are dangling, falling to the ground, Weeds that have been hidden all summer under major leafiness are now exposed, having patiently waited for their moment in the sun, and are ready to run with it. So things are starting to look pretty shabby. I never really think of it as unsightly, it is just nature doing its thing, and even though I am intrigued by the decaying process, I do try to keep things somewhat tidy and keep the diseases at bay as much as possible. My October garden To-Do list is long, and I likely won't get to it all, but there are some projects that have made it to my Must-Do list. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cut back dead and dying annuals and vegetables. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tidy up perennials, but leave any seed heads on for the birds, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Lightly rake up most of the debris. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Weed ! Now that much of the foliage is gone throughout the garden, it is easy to see the miscellaneous weeds (lots of oxalis!) that was hiding underneath it all. The soil is moist and many of the weeds are young and so they are easy to pull. Spending a little time at it now will save major time later. Carefully dig and pull any bindweed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Put anything obviously diseased and any perennial weeds into the compost-bin for pickup. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Compost - it's ongoing, but there is so much to put in it this time of year. Keep a pile of woodier stuff seperate to add to pile-making, for aeration and carbon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mulch! Probably the most important fall activity for soil improvement. I have a couple of compost piles that I have been working for the last couple of months and they are just about ready to use. Even though there are still some twigs and straw and corn cobs recognizable, it will make great mulch as it is, bringing up oodles of worms to finish the job. It will have transformed into beautiful healthy soil by spring. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rake leaves - mix into compost piles </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rake leaves - stockpile them until there is enough to layer with 'green ' material. to make a 'hot' pile at least 3' high x 5' wide. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rake leaves - spread as mulch on the garden. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Rake leaves - they just keep falling -- </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So things are winding down, but there are still flashes of color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been waiting all summer for this </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Angel's Trumpet</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Brugmansi</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">a</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> to bloom, and had almost given up on it. Admittedly, it got off a late start. In fact I'm kind of surprised that it is alive at all. Due to lack of overwintering space, it was left out in the cold, uncovered, all winter, in a large pot. I had resigned myself to thinking of it as an annual, and had given it up for dead. (Brugmansia is native to tropical areas of South America where it can become a large shrub or small tree, reaching from 10 to 36 feet. It needs winter protection here (zone 8) to do well.) But life is persistent, and in spite of my mistreatment, it sent a up a couple of small shoots very early on, and continued to grow, though not blooming, until finally culminating this week in a late show of these loveliest of trumpet flowers, all opening within a few days. There are still a few small flower buds forming, but certainly there is not enough heat or time for them to develop before cold envelopes them, so this is it. A wonderful late season surprise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The pollinators are still at it, though l am seeing fewer and fewer of them. All summer long the yard was abuzz, but now, with fewer flowers, there is, of course, less nectar to go around. I have been seeing quite a bit of honeybee action at the hummingbird feeder, but the holes are too small for them to get to the sugar water. But this pretty little bee, a Halictid bee, (</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">sometimes called a Sweat bee, as some species in this group are attracted to human sweat) is hard at work. She has an iridescent green head and thorax and a black and white striped abdomen. Very stylish. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These 'Sungold' and 'Sweet 100' Cherry Tomatoes trained up against the south side of the house are still going strong. They are under the eaves of the house, and this, together with the warmth of the house, should keep them ripening for a while longer. And there are still a LOT of tomatoes on them. If 'Sungold', starting to drape down on the left, was stretched out, it would easily reach 12 feet. </span></div>
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love</b> talking about my garden<i>.</i><b><i> </i> I love</b>
talking to other people about their gardens. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I love</b> that I am able to take just a few steps out the front
door, with a dinner menu in mind, dig a carrot or two, gather some lettuce,
pick a nice shiny banana pepper or cherry pepper and a succulent, perfectly
ripe, juicy tomato, a crispy cucumber and some tender young beans from the
trellis up against the south side of the house (shall it be purple, golden, or
green beans tonight?). I add a handful of fresh herbs (tarragon and basil are
nice, maybe some parsley, too) and have the freshest possible salad on the
table in short order. (Disclaimer : Marc
is the chef, I’m only the kitchen help – sometimes. More on this at a future blog post). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>I love</b> that this food that we eat grew out of this soil that is so rich and full of life itself, (there will be a lot about soil to follow
in future posts).<b> I love</b> that it comes directly from the garden into our bodies and it
then literally becomes part of us. <b>I love</b> this connection with the earth and the way it
makes me feel about this cycle of life. </span></div>
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kitchen scraps in hand and am heading out to add it to one of my many compost
piles. Well, okay, maybe there are
things that make me happier, BUT it certainly ranks up there as one of the
activities in which I find great pleasure. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s kind of hard to see, but there are 2 tomato plants on
this trellis, ‘Brandywine’ and ‘Chocolate Stripes’. These are grafted tomatoes, and I will be
writing more about the grafted tomatoes in later blogs, but I am really sold on them. Briefly, the idea behind grafting is that a cutting (the scion) from a tomato variety that is desired for eating is grafted onto another
tomato (the understock) that doesn't necessarily have the best tomatoes for
eating, but is a naturally vigorous and disease resistant type with the potential to develop a very large
root system. Based on my experience and comparison planting done by
others, because the root systems can be 5–10 times larger than a regular tomato and reach deeper for more water and
nutrients, the grafted tomato plants are bigger, huskier, more disease resistant,
with more and larger tomatoes. They also hold up longer in the fall. The one in
the picture with the green tomatoes hanging is an heirloom variety called ‘Chocolate
Stripes’ and has already yielded 44 pounds! of tomatoes, many of those being over a
pound each. There are at least 10-15 pounds of tomatoes still to be picked
on this one plant. There are some warm, sunny days coming up, near 70 degrees, so I have hopes that these green tomatoes will either ripen, or at least become
mature enough so that if we have to pick them green, they will have a good chance of
ripening off the vine. If not, we will
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I do have fun growing kohlrabi. This is a vegetable that many people are still
unfamiliar with, but it should be better known. It’s easy to grow, and
delicious. I love the space alien look of it, the crunchy texture and the very
mild cabbage taste. We like to eat it raw, with hummus or in salad, but there are
lots of ways to cook it. Marc added some strips to pickled beets. The kohlrabi took on the reddish color of the beets and It was a perfect combination. This is a giant variety with the fabulously fun
name of ‘Supershmeltz’, (just try saying it out loud) with the potential to
grow up to 10” across. Ours never got quite that large. These are only about 6”
across, but as you can see in the picture, they are too crowded. Next year I will be more diligent about thinning, difficult as it is to throw out perfectly good plants! But, like most vegetables, they need space to reach their full
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of, the kind you find stuffed in your green olives. I think these are just the cutest peppers, less
than 2” across, with a thick, meaty flesh. I like to eat them raw, as is, but
they would also make great little individual appetizers - just cut off the top, scoop
out the seeds, and you have a perfect little shiny red cup to fill up with whatever
filling sounds good to you. And prolific
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plant , and probably closer to 100, but I lost count ! I will definitely be growing
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Scarlet Runner beans have clusters of flashy orange/red
flowers that hummingbirds LOVE, and tons of big, somewhat flat, meaty beans. I
would grow them for the flowers alone, in fact that was my intention, and to
cover a trellis to hide the compost pile, but the beans are surprisingly good. I
don’t know why it should have been a surprise, probably because most references
that I have seen stress the ornamental and hummingbird attracting qualities,
not their culinary qualities. Also the pods have kind of a rough texture that
put me off at first. But they are really
good! They are kind of meaty, with a lot of substance, and very tasty both raw
and cooked. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">In fact, they are the most popularly eaten bean in England. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">They are also reportedly very good as a dried
bean, and I have seen reference to them as ‘Oregon Lima bean’.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The dried beans are quite beautiful - big and
flat, purple mottled with black.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So at
this point, I am letting whatever pods are left on the vines, and there are
quite a few pods left, get large and mature enough to be used as dry beans. </span></div>
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a tidbit of botanical nomenclature – the genus names for beans in general is <i>Phaseolus.</i> Scarlet Runner beans are <i>Phaesolus coccinea</i>. Coccinea
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So, now I've</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> got the garlic bed all ready to plant; it’s
time. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And we lost the garlic!!!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">After
harvesting last year’s garlic crop, I had set aside the biggest heads of the 2
varieties we grew, for replanting.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Now it’s
time, and they are nowhere to be found!</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">They
were in paper bags, somewhere in the basement, and I know they were not used. I
feel like I’ve looked everywhere, but obviously not, unless they got thrown out
somehow.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">So it’s time to get back down
into the basement and look in all the corners and under stuff I would probably rather
not look under. I really don’t’ want to have to buy garlic starts.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">And these were big and beautiful.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">I’m not giving up yet. </span><br />
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