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September 2015 Turnip News September 2015 Turnip News Master Gardeners Prince William Editors: Rebecca Arvin-Colón Maria Stewart Inside this issue: News from the MG President’s Message Education Committee 2 Where has the year gone? Here it is September already. Pretty soon Upcoming Events and MGPW 3 bed leaders in the Teaching Garden will begin to tuck in their flow- Meetings - At a Glance ers for the winter. No doubt Jean and Amye will soon set out a fall Prince William County Fair 4 crop of various greens and such. MGs Visit Alpaca Habitat 5 If you haven’t had an opportunity to visit our Teaching Garden, drop by. The new compost area in honor of Ed Rishell is up and run- Emerald Ash Borer 6-8 ning. The memorial service to honor Ed Rishell and Louise Black The First Flight 9-10 will be on October 10th at 2:00 p.m. at the Teaching Garden. Come join us. The Board of Directors will meet again on September 2nd at View from a MG’s Garden 11 5:30 p.m. at the Central Library Community Room. All members Update: Audubon at Home are entitled and encouraged to attend Board of Director meetings. Wildlife Sanctuary, Apartment 12 Additionally, if you would like to serve on the Board of Directors for Edition 2016 and 2017, please let me know what position interests you. We Upcoming Events and MGPW will elect a President Elect, Secretary, Treasurer, and Member -at- 13-14 Meetings Large. Several members have already expressed interest. If you Fall Plant Sales 14 are interested or just curious about the responsibilities of the vari- ous Board positions -- attend a Board meeting! Root Appreciation Day 15 I encourage all members to read the Bylaws. If you wish to make a Landscape for Life 15 change, whether an addition, deletion, or rewording, please let me Get to Know a Critter 16 know. I will ask the Board to form a Bylaws Committee at the Sep- tember meeting to incorporate all changes recommended. The draft PUZZLER 17 Turnip News MG President’s Message copy of the Bylaws will be emailed to each member for consideration. Then we will vote to approve the new Bylaws at the January meeting. My sincere thanks to Debbie Scott for reformatting how we account for funds received, funds budg- eted and funds dispersed. As a 501(c)(3) organization, we have significant accounting responsibili- ties. In any 501(c)(3) organization it’s all about “follow the money.” In this regard, Debbie has done a wonderful job! Thanks Debbie. For the next two months, the Board will be formulating our 2016 Budget. As a 501(c)(3), we must have a budget. The budget is subject to review when we file our application with the Virginia De- partment of Agriculture and Consumer Services (VDACS) in the spring requesting permission to seek donations actively and conduct fundraisers (as defined by the IRS). Once our VDACS applica- tion is approved, we will request relief for paying state income tax and collecting and paying state sales tax. The Board needs new ideas on how to reach out to the Prince William County community and as- sist in various programs such as, possibly, grants to schools and community organizations to create gardens or flower beds. As a 501(c)(3) organization, community outreach is expected. We have a list of ideas but new ideas are always welcome. It is my wish that, by the January meeting, the Board will have approved some new community projects and you will be able to sign up to help out. We have a great deal to accomplish in the remaining months. Respectfully, Bill Willis, President, Master Gardeners of Prince William, Inc. News from the Education Committee Jamie Nick Here’s What’s Coming Up for the October Program: Jennifer Graham and Jean Bennett on ORCHIDS! Learn about varieties of orchids, light requirements, and where they like to be. Also, Jennifer will demonstrate re-potting an orchid. Stay Tuned for Date, Time, and Place…! 2 Turnip News Upcoming Events and MGPW Meetings - At a Glance September WEDNESDAY SATURDAY WEDNESDAY FRIDAY 2 5 9 11 MGPW Board of Teaching Garden MG College Review Root Appreciation Directors Meeting Work Day Day SATURDAY MONDAY SATURDAY 12 14 26 Saturday in the TGBEES Meeting / Teaching Garden Garden, Work Day & Landscape for Life Work Day Plant Sale sessions begin October SATURDAY SATURDAY SATURDAY 3 10 24 Teaching Garden Saturday in the Teaching Garden Work Day Garden, Work Day & Work Day Memorial Brick Dedication 3 Turnip News Linda Ligon and Jackie Burriss - just two of the many Master Gardener Volunteers helping out at the Fair Gisela Glodeck and her Blue Ribbon Pumpkin “Freaky Tom” Congratulations! Photo by Beverly Femino Congratulations! 1st place Thomas Bolles, other photos by Jason Alexander/Maria 2nd place Harriet Carter Stewart 4 Turnip News Master Gardeners Visit Alpaca Habitat by Harriet Carter onnie Nahas Fulford is the owner of a small herd of alpacas. She is B currently feeding them grain and other supplements. Her goal, though, is to have a grazing habitat in her backyard (she has a meadow in her front yard) so that the animals could feed on fresh grasses and plants. The project for our team of Master Gardener Volunteers, Linda Arvin, Brenda Hallam, Teresa Blecksmith, Sherrie Bishop and myself, involved identifying plants in Bonnie’s backyard meadow potentially poisonous to the alpacas. It was quite an extensive task for the Master Gardener Volunteer team to identify the plants on the ground, overhanging Bonnie Nahas Fulford tree branches, as well as vines on preparing wool for the fence. We accomplished most processing of it within a couple of hours. A lot of the plants were weeds we knew from turf projects, but there were many that were difficult to identify with certainty. Part of the difficulty was that the plants were at various stages of growth and only a few were in flower. The plants we could not identify were bagged and taken to the left to right: Linda Arvin, Sherrie Extension Office for possible identification. The office Bishop, Teresa Blecksmith, Brenda experts, Paige Thacker, Nancy Berlin, Thomas Bolles and Hallam. front: Bonnie Nahas Leslie Paulson were able to identify all but Fulford. With Harriet Carter, below. one. We compared all of our identified plants against a complete listing of plants poisonous to alpacas. Bonnie was then given a printed out list with color photos which made it much easier for her to check against what is actually growing on her grounds. There were some amazing finds. Plantains, for example, are not poisonous when they are in the broad leaf form, but they are deadly in the narrow leaf form. Bonnie’s backyard meadow, with its current plant life, may have to be completely resown with grasses and plants that are palatable to alpacas -- no small task. However, The youngest renovation could be done in stages. and most curious photos by Harriet Carter 5 Turnip News Emerald Ash Borer by Abbie and Vincent Panettiere ome years ago, I can recall seeing odd pur- territories. Under quarantine, according to the ple tent-like structures hanging from trees Fairfax County, Virginia website, you are not S along Sudley Road across the road from allowed to move any hardwood firewood, ash the Catharpin Post Office. I believe this was nursery stock, ash green lumber, or any other part of a 2012 program, “Spot the Purple Trap ash material, living, dead, cut, or fallen, includ- for EAB Awareness Week." The tents were traps ing logs, stumps, branches, and roots, as well as for the Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), Agrilus composted and uncomposted chips from any spe- planipennis Fairmaire (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), cies of ash. a small invading beetle native to Eastern Rus- sia, Northern China, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, EAB insects are small, approximately .33 inches and Taiwan. The traps were purple because the long, and brilliant metallic green as adults. insects are said to prefer that color. EABs have four larval stages (instars) and, in the process of feeding, they create long serpen- In their native range, the EAB population densi- tine galleries. They use the volatiles from ash ty is low enough that they are considered merely leaves and what are called a pest on the ash trees. However, outside their “sesquiterpenes,” (these are naturally occurring native territory, they have become a serious chemicals given off by the trees as a defense or a pest, spreading through the United States and pheromone) to locate their host trees. When they destroying all varieties of ash in this country. emerge as adults from trees in the spring, they make a D-shaped opening in the tree’s bark. The The purple tents are something similar in intent adults will spend approximately one week feed- to the traps that lure Japanese beetles: they ing on the leaves in the ash tree’s canopy, but were developed not specifically as killing traps, this itself does not do much harm to the tree. but an attempt to assess whether there are Males hover nearby, identifying females visually EABs present in the area and their estimated and dropping on to them to mate. Females may number. The tents are extremely sticky to trap mate with several males in their six week life any EABs and are armed with a pheromone (a span in which they will lay forty to seventy eggs. pheromone is a chemical sexual lure secreted by If the females live longer, they may lay up to 200 animals, but particularly by insects to attract eggs, which will take about two weeks to hatch.
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