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Master Gardener Newsletter Master Gardener Newsletter S EPTEMBER 2020 C OWLITZ C OUNTY 1946 3 RD A VE. L ONGVIEW , WA 98632 WSU Extension Office Gary Fredricks Phone: 360-577-3014 Gary Fredricks, WSU I have a plan? Cowlitz County "A year from now, you will wish you had started today." ~ Karen Lamb Extension Director, 360-577-3014 Extension 3 October marks a showcase of fall colors with all the trees changing to different E-mail: [email protected] shades of gold and red. It also means elections are drawing near. Political speeches fill the airways with promises of a better way of doing things. Speech- Carlee Dowell, es in the past were about saving the taxpayers money, but now because budgets Administrative Secretary have been cut, it has become more about accountability. There are promises to 360-577-3014 Extension 0 eliminate wasteful spending and be more efficient in how your dollars are spent. We all should expect that our tax dollars are being used effectively, but how do E-mail: we know? [email protected] As public supported organization, it is expected that WSU Extension is ac- countable for the funds it uses. That means we need to demonstrate that as an WSU Gardening Websites organization we can show our programs have improved the quality of life for mastergardener.wsu.edu/ the general public. WSU Extension has the responsibility to make sure our pro- gardening.wsu.edu grams are relevant and impact Cowlitz County citizens. As MG volunteers, cowlitz.wsu.edu partners with our office, the goal remains the same for you. HortSense Fact Sheets hortsense.cahnrs.wsu.edu/ So how can we be sure that we are making a difference? A good start is plan programs to have a purpose. Programs should fit the MG vision with the objec- PestSense Fact Sheets tive to make a difference. For example, if an organization asks for us to plant pestsense.cahnrs.wsu.edu/ and weed their garden, the answer is a polite no. We are willing to provide in- Pest Leaflet Series formation, demonstrate techniques, and share knowledge which is part of our puyallup.wsu.edu/plantclini mission to help others achieve their vision. The next step is to determine what do we hope to achieve by conducting the program. There should be a reason for c/pls/ offering the program, not just put it on for the sake of holding it. If we plan a WSU Educational Materi- program knowing what we want to achieve, we will most likely get there. In als planning a program consider early how to measure the results you hope to http://pubs.wsu.edu achieve. WSU Master Gardener Finally the last step is the most important and biggest pain. We need to www.cowlitzcomg.com/ demonstrate that an impact was made. Achieving a difference should include being able to demonstrate it to others. People need to see that a difference was made that justifies the support they have provided. Annual reports and year end summaries exist to show that a year’s worth of effort generated results. So what does this have to do with you? As you think about programs that the Cooperating agencies: Washington State University, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and MG should take on for next year, consider what we want to achieve and how Cowlitz County. WSU Extension programs and can we measure the impact that it will have. I appreciate all of you that have employment are available to all without provided impact information to our office. It may be reporting service hours, discrimination. Evidence of noncompliance documenting food donations or letting me know of programs that you have con- may be reported through your local WSU ducted. It all makes a difference and helps when looking for future support. Extension. 1 Announcements Meetings & Events Plant and Insect Clinic is fielding calls and emails. No office hours. MG Foundation Meeting, 10 am, September 8, 2020, using ZOOM remote meeting: Looking Ahead: Garden tasks and problems to be Gary Fredricks will email connection information or watching for this month. you can call or email him. 360-577-3014, Ext. 3, [email protected] Connect by Phone Call (long distance) See our new Trainee Resources page—See most +1 669 900 9128 of the mini-class presentations that you may have missed. Wednesdays, 10am—Zoom HAPPY HOUR FOR MGs! No agenda—just friends getting together to chat—we have a lot of fun—come join us! Gary will send out connection info. Have you missed any of the previous workshops on Zoom? Most of them can be found on our website! Workshops Wednesday evenings 6 – 7 pm In this issue 9/30 Spiders-Fact or Fiction Reflections from the Garden 10/7 Mole Control Gary Fredricks 10/14 Best Plants for Fall Planting MG Articles 10/21 Tips for New and new-to-PNW Gardeners Roxanne Nakamura Rethinking Your Landscape 10/28 Affordable Landscaping Alice Slusher Fall: Best Time to Plant Gary Hinderman Raising Spiders How to-Tuesdays at noon – 12:30 pm MG Tips for new-to-PNW Gardeners Garden Pearls—Mating Slugs and How to Harvest 10/6 Growing Microgreens Pears 10/13 Making a Rain Garden Much Needed Giggles—Shared Pics 10/20 Beginning Bonsai Fruit tree care in October 10/27 Flower Arrangements for Fall Notes from the Gardens Fruit Tree Care in Fall This ‘n That 2020 MG Trainee classes will resume online Foundation Board Mtg. Minutes in September. Veterans, please join us for Continuing Education! 10/7 Tips for New and new-to-PNW Gardeners - Article Opportunity - 10/14 Best Plants for Fall Planting 10/21 Mole Control If you specialize in a specific type of gardening, 10/28 Affordable Landscaping then why not share your knowledge by writing a short article for the newsletter? It’s a great way to contribute, and help inspire fellow gardeners. Not to mention that the time spent writing can be turned in as volunteer hours! If you have an article you’d like to share, please email them to: Carlee Dowell [email protected] Articles for October issue due Oct. 20th 2 RE-THINKING YOUR LANDSCAPE Roxanne Nakamura Have things changed in your yard? The garden and landscape is forever evolving. It’s a fact of life. A tree may be dying or starting to make too much shade for the current plants around it. New neighbors might be peering into your yard, per- haps they removed a screen on their property. Plants can grow too big for their location. A plant may not have done well in the hot summer full sun location- too much watering attention needed. Looking at your yard with fresh, objective eyes can reveal plants that may need to be moved, pruned, or removed. Areas may need different plants now. Hey! opportuni- ties for more purchases. I love plants! I am a plant collector (to my husband’s dis- may). In my nursery visits, I find plants I have always want- ed, and impulse items too cool to not take home. Then they get home and need a place to be planted. I must admit that I have poked plants in every open spot in the shrub beds. But the plants grow up! And I learn more about the pretty little specimens, their rampant growth or their needs contrary to the location. I’m guilty of planting a Pink Princess Escallonia under a shady tree because I wanted its deep green glossy leaves and pink flowers to screen the neighbor’s junk pile. Well, she doesn’t bloom and is growing too lanky, too wide. Pruning is not solving the issue. Remember Right Plant, Right Place? After inventorying my yard as follows, identifying what I want from my landscape and the plants I have, I can readjust with some elbow grease and Tylenol. I will be moving the princess and her sisters to the sunny side of my yard to screen the other neighbors’ view of me! Right Now is a great time to move plants around, giving them time to stretch their roots into their new homes before winter really sets in. Hopefully all my migrating plants will burst into bloom and new growth in spring like the books say. Here is a fun project I’m doing. I want to know the exact location of each plant in my yard so I can write the specimen and cultivar names on paper before I forget what I have (all tags fade or break off). I want to know if the shrubs and trees will play well together when they reach more of their full size. So I need an inventory- on a scaled landscape “design”, well, diagram. Continued on next page 3 RE-THINKING YOUR LANDSCAPE Roxanne Nakamura I used colorful surveyor’s flags from the hardware store and marked shrubs and trees with yellow flags and perennials with lavender flags. Wow- I have too many shrubs. Next I measured parallel lines 10 ft apart, ran surveyor’s tape from stake to stake and then used a third color of flag to mark 5 ft distances in a grid. I am now able to see just where the plants are and mark them on a page of graph pa- per, 1” equals 5 ft. Ok, that was a pleasant two day project. On the next rainy day, I put the locations on clean graph paper and drew cir- cles showing mature size of the plants. Very enlightening. And sort of an art project. I made a list of my plants’ names and labeled the drawing (lines from the center of the plant to the name off to the side of the diagram), trying to not be too messy.
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