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Asian Worms the Unwanted Guests BUFFALO - ITHACA - ROCHESTER - SYRACUSE Pests! Asian Worms The Unwanted Guests Volume Twenty-four, Issue Five FREE September-October 2018 UPSTATE GARDENERS’ JOURNAL - 390 HILLSIDE AVENUE - ROCHESTER, NEW YORK 14610 Fall is for Planting What can drain your energy faster, beat your soil to a hard pan of crumbly nuggets, and tax your plants more than the past 10 weeks? Can you imagine anything more tiresome for a gardener than excessive heat and drought? But do you know what we love about people who love plants? All those issues can be swept away in a day! Lower that humidity and drop that dew point, and next thing you know: our parking lot is full! Of course, there are those die-hards who will not be kept out of the garden (thank you so much), happily we’re all part of a big group of plant-loving people who enjoy any gardening season no matter what mother nature throws at us. And with the onset of Fall weather we’re refreshed and ready to go! Annual Customer Appreciation Days are happening now… and every growing thing we offer is on sale. In honor of plant lovers everywhere and the promise of Fall weather, we have begun our Annual Customer Appreciation Days! We love this tradition. It’s not just a summer ‘overstock or burnouts’ sale, there are new items and new varieties. Additionally, we have labored hard all season to make sure the plants you buy this Fall are the plants you bought last May—pretty and primed for that special spot in your garden. With the reset of the weather, it’s the perfect time to put that curb appeal back on the front burner. After all, don’t you usually feel better after a good scrub or a fresh haircut? Paint your door, spray the porch, grab some new house numbers…all good ideas! To really freshen up the look, why not try a new porch pot or a colorful window box? Ready to go all-out? We can help you plan an entire garden bed. Stone Wall Follies Finale This will be our 10th and final year of the follies, and what a wonderful journey these 10 years have been. We have met some of the most amazing, stone-loving, people. This season’s anniversary brings to mind what John says, ‘Stones want to be together.’ And they bring people together, too. John and Norman will be making their final appearance here in Brockport this session…they have devoted years to their craft along with teaching and traveling to enlarge the circle for the ‘dyker’ at heart everywhere. Consider the beginners dry laid stone wall session this year to experience that last ‘wee bit of magic’ with true masters of the art. The 2018 session of our dry-laid stone wall class is set for October 6th & 7th A two-day event designed to encourage and foster the art of dry-laid walling Anyone can join our students for an evening of inspiration featuring John Shaw-Rimmington of the CSWA Norman Haddow, Scottish Master Craftsman Saturday Oct 6th at 7:15 PM This Saturday night event is free and open to the public and will include presentations on some of the wonderful projects John and Norman have done around the world. Google these guys for a sneak preview! Please contact Kathy to reserve a space for the Saturday evening event: [email protected] or 585-637-4745 If you’re ready to take the weekend session, we can email you the requirements and itinerary. 41 Year Mission! It is our greatest desire to provide our customers with top quality, well- grown plant material at a fair and honest price. We will strive to provide an unmatched selection of old favorites and underused, hard-to-find items, along with the newest varieties on the market. We will eagerly share our horticultural knowledge gained from years of education and experience. Lastly, we offer all this in a spirit of fun and lightheartedness. SARA’S GARDEN Sara’s Garden Center | 389 East Ave. | Brockport 14420 | 585-637-4745 Experience the Largest Living History Museum in New York State Something New to Discover in Every Season! 12 Historic Gardens and Operating Farm 68 Historic Buildings to Explore Skilled Crafts and Tradespeople Cooking Demonstrations Don’t miss our Fall Festival & Agricultural Fair October 6 & 7, 2018 Just 20 miles from Rochester! PUBLISHER/EDITOR: Jane F. Milliman MANAGING EDITOR: Debbie Eckerson GRAPHIC DESIGN: Cathy Monrad TECHNICAL EDITOR: Brian Eshenaur Contents PROOFREADER: Sarah Koopus CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Ear to the Ground ......................................................7 LYN CHIMERA | CAROL ANN HARLOS | LIZ MAGNANTI WALT NELSON | CATHY MONRAD | VALERIE SHAW | STEVEN JAKOBI Almanac: September and October ....................9-10 Asian Worms ............................................................ 12 The Unwanted Guests ........................................14-15 390 Hillside Avenue, Rochester, NY 14610 585/733-8979 Calendar ..............................................................16-19 e-mail: [email protected] upstategardenersjournal.com Backyard Habitat ................................................22-23 The Upstate Gardeners’ Journal is published six times a year. To subscribe, please send $20.00 to the above address. Magazines will be delivered via U.S. mail and or email (in PDF Classifieds ................................................................. 24 format). We welcome letters, calls and e-mail from our readers. Please tell us what you think! Little Sprouts ............................................................ 25 We appreciate your patronage of our advertisers, who enable us to bring you this publication. All contents copyright 2018, Upstate Gardeners’ Journal. Cathy the Crafty Gardener ..................................... 26 ON THE COVER: 'Heavenly Blue' morning glory, Caledonia, NY SUBSCRIBE! Never miss another issue to our area’s guide to everything gardeners want to know! Get the UGJ delivered to your door six times a year for just $20.00. NEW! Subscribe for 2 years for $38.00. TO GIVE AS A GIFT, simply check the gift option and add your name. We’ll send a notice and start the subscription. PREFER TO PAY WITH CREDIT CARD? Subscribe or renew by phone—585/733-8979—or on our website. upstategardenersjournal.com Subscribe for: ❍ 1 year: $20.00 ❍ 2 years: $38.00 (6 issues) (12 issues) Send subscription to: Name Address City State Zip ❏ This subscription is a gift from: Check enclosed for: S-O ’18 Thank you 390 Hillside Avenue Rochester, NY 14610 585/733-8979 Ear to the Ground Fall is arguably the most productive season in the you work for the treasury, please don’t blow her in. Cathy’s ornamental garden. After the sweltering heat of summer craft is part of our issue theme—Pests. has passed, yard work is a lot more inviting, for one thing. Looming deadlines also play a roll: first frost, killing frost, Lasagna mulching first snow, deep frost. Trees, shrubs, and perennials planted If you know you want to install or enlarge a bed but now (mostly) can gain enough root growth to give them a don’t think you can get around to planting it this fall, layer meaningful boost in the spring. some organic material to kill off grass Fall is for planting! and weeds and prepare the soil for next year. You can start with cardboard, thick INSET TOP: Cyclamen THINGS TO TRY sections of newspaper...anything like hederifolium, Cornell Hardy cyclamen that, and add on top whatever compost Botanic Gardens, fall I’ve never had luck with these you have around, shredded leaves, straw little darlings, which is why I am such from this year’s vegetable garden, even a sucker for them in other people’s commercial bark mulch, if you like INSET BOTTOM: gardens. There are both spring- and (shredded is good). Keep it on the moist Crafty fly repellent fall-blooming types, and the flowers side—this keeps stuff from flying away sneak peek range from white to deep pink, while and aids in decomposition. the glossy leaves are frequently intricately marked. Happy gardening and as always, thanks for reading! Cathy’s craft Not in the mood for flies? Me neither. Check out our resident crafter’s cute solution on page 26. Cathy is concerned that —Jane Milliman, Publisher she might get in trouble for drilling holes in pennies, so if Weckesser Brick Co., Inc. Supplying Homeowners & Contractors for over 80 years Veneer Brick Cultured Stone 450 Trabold Road Rochester, NY 14624 Natural Stone 585-247-1100 Brick Pavers Hardscape Products OVER SEED YOUR LAWN NOW! è Increase density… choke out weeds è Improve color… resist insects and grass diseases è Improve high traffic areas… reduce pesticide use SEPTEMBER is the best time to over seed. CHOOSE FROM HIGH QUALITY VARIETIES: Kentucky Tall Perennial Bluegrass Fescue Rye Grass CALL TODAY TO SEE WHICH VARIETY IS BEST FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS! 585-548-2552 Almanac What To Do in the Garden in September & October AUTUMN GARDENING CHORES FRUITS – VEGETABLES – HERBS Remove, pick up, and discard any diseased plants or Pot up some of your garden herbs and bring them in leaves. Disinfect your pruners as you move from plant the house for fresh herbs during the winter. to plant to prevent spreading fungal spores, bacteria, Cover plants if early frost is expected. phytoplasma, and viruses. Harvest frost-tender veggies and herbs such as Divide early-summer–blooming perennials that have basil, tomatoes, beans, peppers, eggplants, squash, and become overgrown, show diminished bloom, or have a bare pumpkins. spot in the clump center (doughnut). Do this in early fall Don’t wait too long before picking pears—they ripen while there is still enough time for the roots to settle in for from the inside out. Take a fruit in your hand and tilt it the winter. horizontally. If the fruit comes off the branch it is time to Deadhead (cut off the flower/seed heads) plants that pick your pears.
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