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Lane County Master Gardeners TM Association
June 2016
President’s Message Leigh Rieder, President
We did it! The Extension Ballot Measure
passed! I’m writing this on May 18th, the day after
Lane County gave its approval of putting
Extension programs back on a sound financial
footing, and I’m still enjoying the afterglow.
We didn’t just squeak by with 51 percent of the
vote either, but with a landslide victory. There
were times during the last three to four months
when I wondered if we had the resources and the
wherewithal to convince enough voters that they
needed Extension. The task seemed gigantic, and
we were such a small group of supporters. But we
had the will, so we found the way. Special
recognition is due to Regional Administrator John
Punches, whose inspiration and savvy leadership
provided the impetus we needed to get started
down this road. Without his initial guidance, we
would still be trying to figure out how to keep the
Master Gardener Program alive, and other
programs would still be struggling as well. Thank
you John!
And the good news just keeps coming — the
Spring Plant Sale and Garden Fair netted just over
$18,000! That’s an increase of more than $5,000
over last year. This year's larger venue enabled us
to sell more plants and allowed space for vendors
whose fees contributed to the improved bottom
line.
In addition, our customers expressed their
appreciation for better traffic flow and having more
space to move around. Of course, careful notes
were taken for improvements to be made next year,
but holding the Plant Sale in the horse barn seems
to be a winning combination. Kudos to Katie
Werner and Laura Hoover for having the vision
that allowed the Plant Sale to expand so
successfully. Thanks also to all of you, the
volunteers, whose dedication and hard work make
it all possible. Well done everyone.
With the Plant Sale and the Ballot Measure
campaign in my rearview mirror, I’m happy to
return to puttering in my garden, my version of
meditation. Despite my long list of tasks which
often lead to tired, sore muscles, I always come in
from the garden de-stressed and content. Too bad
we can’t bottle and sell that at the Plant Sale.
Happy gardening.
Lane County Master Gardener Seminar
Native and Invasive Tree Pests of Oregon With Christine Buhl, PhD.
Insects are primarily a beneficial group but some be-
come problematic when trees are already stressed or
when introduced into a new environment. Christine
Buhl, Phd, is a Forest Entomologist with the Oregon
Department of Forestry and she will review some of the
major native and exotic insect pests of urban and forest
trees that we face in Oregon as well as pests whose
ranges are expanding into the Willamette Valley due to
climate change. This will be an excellent and very in-
formative presentation for all to attend.
Tuesday, June 21, 2016 7 - 8:30 P.M.
OSU Extension Office
996 Jefferson Street, Eugene
(Enter on 10th at the ramp)
The Garden Gate June 2016
Inside May LCMGA Board Meeting Highlights
Jan Gano, MG President’s Message........................ 1
LCMGA Board .............................. 2
From the Desk of……………...… .3
Committee Reports ..................... 4-7
Events…..………. ........................ ..8
OSU Catalog…..………. .............. ..9
Swap & Shop ................................ 10
Tax Levy…..………. .................. ..11
Pat’s Green Friends…...… ........... .12
Pat’s Bugs…...… ......................... .13
Hort Happenings ........................... 14
Diagnostic Specialist .............. 15-16
Calendar…………………………17
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Lane County Extension office
996 Jefferson St., Eugene
Corner of 10th, up the ramp
(541) 344-5859
MG Plant Clinic (541) 344-0265 10 am– 1 pm & 2-5 pm Monday-Thursday [email protected]
Lane County Master Gardeners Association
(LCMGA) 2016 Board
Leigh Rieder, President [email protected]
Christina Bixel, President-Elect [email protected]
Peter Thurston, Vice President [email protected]
Jan Gano, Secretary [email protected]
Judy Chamberlain, Treasurer [email protected]
Leslie Jehnings, Historian [email protected]
Karen Bodner, OMGA Rep. [email protected]
Sharon Faust, OMGA Alt. [email protected]
Robbin Spraitz, Membership [email protected]
Jeff Muir Past President [email protected]
The Plant Sale income was $18,000.00 this year! Up from
$12,000.00 last year. Congratulations and thank you to Katie
Werner and Laura Hoover and everyone else you helped
make the Plant Sale such a success.
The Plant Clinic is in need of mentors and veterans to help.
The Plant Clinic has been very busy this year and traffic has
doubled from last year. If you are available to help with Plant
Clinic or other events in the community, be sure to stop by
the Plant Clinic to sign-up for hours or call 541-344-0265.
Shirley Betourney has agreed to be the coordinator for the
MG Store at this year's Mini-College.
Next Board Meeting will be June 9th at noon at the OSU Ex-
tension Service office classroom.
Mini College Registration now Open
August 4-6, 2016
Llinfield College, McMinnville
http://omga.org/mini-college-2016/Email questions to: [email protected]
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From the Desk of Brooke Edmunds
Please mark your calendars for the upcoming
FREE Advanced Master Gardener Trainings
MGs must complete 10 hours of approved Continu-
ing Education annually to recertify as a MG.
Thank you Jet for setting up Advanced Trainings.
Wednesday, June 8, 6-8 pm—MG only Class
Spiders—John Parrott, MG
Tuesday, June 21, 7-8:30 pm at the LCMGA Public
Meeting
Native & Exotic Tree Pests of Oregon—
Christine Buhl
Wednesday, July 13, 6-8 pm—MG only Class
Tree ID—Steve Bowers, Extension Forester
Tuesday, July 19, 7-8:30 pm at the LCMGA Public
Seminar Diagnosing Plant Diseases—
MG Diagnostic Committee
Wednesday, Aug 10, 6-8 pm—MG only Class
Beneficial Creatures in the Garden
John Parrott, MG
Tuesday, August 16, 7-
8:30 pm at the LCMGA
Public Seminar
Biological Controls in
the Garden—
Heather Stoven
Classes held at the OSU
Extension Office, 996
Jefferson St, Eugene.
Brooke Edmunds, Ph.D. Oregon State University Extension Community Horticulturist Linn, Benton & Lane Counties Phone: 541-791-6617
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @BrookeEdmunds
County Extension websites: Linn, Benton, Lane
Calligrapha californica, or coreopsis beetles, are usually reported feeding on coreopsis this time of year. .
It has a limited host range (ragweed is also mentioned). It can heavily skeletonize leaves on its host plant.
Early intervention can greatly reduce damage. Might want to take a look at your coreopsis around now.
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/nurspest/Calligrapha%20californica.html
Pest Alerts from OSU - Robin Rosetta, OSU
I've been given notice that adults of bronze birch borer have been sighted. The flight of bronze birch borer
is timed to full bloom of black locust. http://oregonstate.edu/dept/nurspest/bronze_birch_borer.htm
The new 2016 ODA Noxious Weed Policy and Classification System list
http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/shared/Documents/Publications/Weeds/
NoxiousWeedPolicyClassification.pdf.
Summary below is the list of minor changes to the Noxious Weed list:
Changes to A listed weeds
Cape Ivy is now an A and T
Changes to B listed weeds
Ivy- is now listed as Ivy
Atlantic Hedera hibernica
English Hedera helix
The Garden Gate June 2016
Plant Sale-- A Huge Success! Katie Werner, MG
Spring Book Sale, Auctions, MG Reference Library
Nancy Sorensen, MG
Spring Book Sale. Wow! Thanks to you, we had
our most profitable book sale ever earning over
$600 at the Spring Sale! To all of you who donated
such beautiful books and those who purchased
same- – Thank You!
Now, on to the Fall Festival’s book sale… and
some changes: Craft category has not been sell-
ing well, so we’ll focus only on garden-related art,
decks and other wooden outside structures, stone
walls or walkways, ponds, and similar.
Please remind others (friends, neighbors…) that we
also offer magazines for sale and anyone may do-
nate current issues:
Gardening magazines 2013-16 (4 years)
Cooking magazines 2014-16 (3 years), and
Miscellaneous magazines 2015-16 only (2
years) please.
Please leave Book & Magazine donations in the
red “Book Box” in our MG room, and please do not
remove any books or magazines from this donation
box. Your book donations are used for Book Sales,
Auctions, and if needed, the MG Reference Li-
brary. Thank you for your generosity.
Auction. At our May seminar , Gary Jordan won
the bid for Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud
and Dirt Shape our World, and Margaret On the
Wildside: Experiments in New Naturalism. Con-
gratulations to our winning bidders, and thanks to
all participants.
MG Reference Library
Please continue filling out the Survey cards inside
each library book; then, please follow the colored
dots to return each book to its specific shelf loca-
tion.
Reminder… MG Reference Library Books re-
main in the MG room unless used during client
consultation. Can’t find the right book? All books
are listed (and cross-referenced for multiple topics)
in the white “MG Library” binder and also on the
MG computer by topic/color code.
Your comments and suggestions to enhance the
Book Sales, Auctions, or MG Reference Library
are always appreciated and may be left in the red
book box.
Garden and Cookbooks will remain the same,
but: Available Ongoing Project: MG who enjoys
Cookbooks and working independently to pro-
cess donated for ongoing MG Spring
Sales and Fall Festivals. Counts toward MG pay-
back hours: [email protected].
Well done Master Gardeners, WELL DONE. With
everyone's hard work we made over $18,000 for the
LCMGA!! This is even more impressive when you
know that last year we only made $12,000 and this
year we were in a new location. We had 933 trans-
actions this year (almost 200 more than last
year). That means we could have had 2,000 people
come to our plant sale--wow!
Laura and I have already started a list of things to
do differently next year and we would love your
input. Please email me at
[email protected] with any sugges-
tions (or even things that you thought went
well). Or come to the Plant Sale break down meet-
ing Tuesday, May 31st at 5:30 pm at the Extension
office, and all are welcome. This will be a simple
potluck/celebration as well as a meeting.
We already have the Fairgrounds location reserved
for next year! Last Saturday in April--April 29,
2017. Please mark your calendars -ok well, mark
your calendars after you get them in December.
Thank you very much everyone for your hard
work!
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Don’t miss the next Sustainable Landscape train-
ing to be held June 21-22, 2016 at the OSU Exten-
sion Service office, 996 Jefferson Street, Eugene.
Class runs all day, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. both days. Class
will be repeated October 25-26 and December 14-
15. Please note that the June and October seminars
are on Tuesday and Wednesday, while the Decem-
ber seminar is on Wednesday and Thursday.
Please share this great opportunity to learn about
Sustainable Landscaping with your friends and
neighbors. Cost is $25 per person. OSU Extension
Service in Lane County has received a grant from
EWEB to promote this program.
Pick up a registration form at the OSU Extension
office or pay with a credit card online: http://
extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/gardens
Ten PDMGs (Plant Diagnostic Master Gardeners)
gathered at the Water Wise Garden in Alton Baker
Park on Saturday, May 21. Jan Gano had scouted
plant problems there and done research to diagnose
them. We regarded troubled big-leaf maple, wax
myrtle, manzanita, culinary sage, blueberry, laven-
der, and lupine. We investigated, peered through
hand-lenses, speculated, argued, and eventually
consulted Jan for what she’d found out.
We look forward to the training sessions on May 28
and June 4 for our new members – fifteen of them!
A note for all Master Gardeners: Many Douglas-
firs of the Willamette Valley are suffering dieback
from the top and flagging (death of randomly
spaced branches). Once you start to notice them,
you’ll see them in many places. I’ve been asked
about them in the Plant Clinic and by three friends.
OSU Extension Forester Glenn Ahrens said recent-
ly, “Browning or dieback is often caused by weath-
er-related stress, sometimes in combination with
pests and diseases…Possible stressors include last
year’s long, dry summer ending with a hot period,
followed by an early freeze in November and then a
relatively warm winter.” You can read more at
http://extension.oregonstate.edu/gardening/2015/05/
drought-hits-douglas-fir-trees-hard.
The random pattern of the flagging suggests a biotic
cause, and he named two pests and two diseases.
However, they take advantage of trees weakened by
environmental stress.
Sign up now for Ask a MG booth at the Oregon Country Fair, an awesome annual three day festival in
Veneta that includes some of the best food, music, crafts, dancing, and alternative culture on the west
coast. If you’re not familiar with it check the web site: http://www.oregoncountryfair.org/
The Fair is July 8,9,10 from 11 am-7 pm. Shifts are 2-hours each beginning at 11am while the last shift is
5pm. LTD provides free bus service to the Fair. Email, text, or call your fellow MG Stephen Ramey at
[email protected], 541-510-3018 (text), or 541-344-1146 (home). Please give your email,
texting number and home number too please. Feel free to call, email or text if you have any questions the
website doesn’t answer.
Sustainable Landscape (SL) Committee Gwendolyn Scott, MG
Diagnostic Specialists Committee Margaret Essenberg , MG
The Garden Gate June 2016
GrassRoots Garden Merry Bradley, MG
On May 4th GrassRoots Garden launched its first
Seed to Supper Course! Seed to Supper is a joint
effort of Oregon Food Bank and the Oregon State
University Extension Service Master Gardener Pro-
gram. The program started in Portland and has ex-
panded statewide through satellite partners, in our
case it is FOOD for Lane County. The goals of
Seed to Supper are two-fold: to promote health, in-
crease resilience and cultivate community connec-
tivity among adults gardening on a budget, and to
cultivate community based leadership by providing
experienced gardeners with an opportunity to share
their gardening expertise with novice gardeners.
The course is offered for free and all participants
receive a comprehensive reference book for begin-
ning gardeners, a certificate of completion, and par-
ticipant incentives such as seeds, fertilizer, com-
post, and plant starts.
We had nine participants in the first class (6 week
course, 1 day a week, and 2 hours each meeting).
While we expected novice gardeners, the partici-
pants had a broad range of gardening experience
(from very little to many years) , which provided an
opportunity for great discussions and resulted in
learning not only from the curriculum but also from
each other’s experience. The GrassRoots Garden
staff, other Master Gardeners and some garden par-
ticipants sat in on the presentations when they had
the time. Master Gardeners Doris Tai, Karl
Lockbaum, Gary Jordan, and Deb Schmidt tag
teamed the instruction of the course.
The main topics covered in the course included:
planning your garden, getting started with healthy
soil, planting your garden, caring for your growing
garden, and harvesting and using your bounty.
GrassRoots Garden was well suited to host this
course as the St Thomas Episcopal Church made
their library available for the classroom PowerPoint
presentation and the Garden was a perfect outdoor
hands-on classroom.
The course helped participants access materials and
local resources to assist them as they developed or
expanded their gardens. The limited class size
helped promote building relationships that will last
beyond the official coursework, where participants
can support each other in their future gardening en-
deavors and the instructors can continue to serve as
mentors.
After each class participants enjoyed lunch at the
Garden and continued to learn in an informal way
about eating what is grown in the garden. They dis-
cussed the opportunity that GrassRoots Garden pro-
vides participants, which is continuing to learn by
participating in the Garden and the ability to take
home fresh produce, as they are developing their
own garden.
A unique benefit of holding the course at Grass-
Roots Garden is that class participants have the op-
portunity to connect with other garden participants
and have access to materials such as leaves and
vegetable starts.
The GrassRoots Garden Committee plans to contin-
ue to offer this course throughout the year as the
site is a truly fitting and supportive venue.
If you would like to become a Seed to Supper vol-
unteer instructor/facilitator contact Jen Anonia at
[email protected] or phone
541-343-2822.
Summer Garden Hours are Tuesday thru Saturday
from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. GrassRoots Garden is
located at 1465 Coburg Rd., across from Safeway,
behind St. Thomas Episcopal Church. For more
information contact: Merry Bradley at 484-7144 or
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Compost Specialists Committee Joanne Carlson , MG
Hasn’t May been a fun month?
It’s always enjoyable to spend time in the garden, and I
especially like how the projects develop and change ac-
cording to the situation. Following lots of rain, weeding
becomes easy and takes priority. Suddenly, I’m taking
breaks to pick and eat ripe strawberries! A friend wants
to give me more horse manure, so I need to make room
for it and made a pleasant discovery while moving some
aged manure; zillions of red wigglers were happily wig-
gling about. I will share some of these with the worm
wranglers to aid in worm sales.
I also mixed a bucket’s worth into a cool compost pile,
and hope the worms are happy there, too. One of my
June projects will be to transplant all the tomatoes, pep-
pers, cukes and squash that are currently in the green-
house, but I’m waiting for more reliably warm weather.
Then it will be time to set up the drip irrigation system
for the second year in a row. Never a dull moment when
you’ve got a garden to tend!
I know everyone has been busy with both their home
gardens and their Extension activities. Compost special-
ists are no exception, and we continue to work hard
physically and mentally; building and turning compost,
wrangling worms, educating each other and the public.
The monthly meeting was held on May 5. Co-chairs
Deb Schmidt and Barbara Dumesnil called the meeting
to order at 12:15 p.m. More than 20 compost specialists
were in attendance and introductions were brief this
time, because the agenda was quite full and the meeting
was slated to go overtime, until 2:00 p.m. We were re-
minded to turn in our hours to Pam Smith, either on the
sign-in sheet or by email.
Margaret Essenberg gave an hour-long lecture to the
group entitled “Compost Chemistry.” This is the same
lecture she gave to the trainees in this year’s compost
specialist training earlier this Spring, and I encourage
everyone to listen to this lecture when she gives it again.
Many years after majoring in chemistry and biology in
college, and getting a Ph.D. in Pharmacology, I was es-
pecially excited to learn something about the molecular
basis of compost. Margaret is a retired professor of bio-
chemistry at Oklahoma State University. She began and
ended her talk with an appropriate quote from Ariel in
Shakespeare’s The Tempest:
“Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes;
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.”
Whereas Pat Patterson talks about the “critters” in com-
post in her lectures, (also a fascinating view into what
goes on in our piles), Margaret’s talk focused on mole-
cules, which are groups of atoms bonded together, rep-
resenting the smallest fundamental unit of a chemical
compound that can take part in a chemical reaction.
Margaret distributed a copy of each of her power points,
and a worksheet listing various “participants” in com-
post. We were going to learn about the roles of carbon,
nitrogen, potassium, oxygen, phosphorus, iron, calcium,
sulfur and other trace minerals! As Margaret described
the approximate size of each participant, we were given
real life reference points to compare the relative size of
each participant to each other.
For example, a glucose molecule is about 1 nm across,
and when multiplied by 200 billion, it is the size of the
molecular model of glucose Margaret passed around the
room. In comparison, a plant cell is about 50 microns
across, which corresponds to something the size of Eu-
gene (50 microns X 200 billion = 10 km).
Our friend, the red wiggler, has a diameter of 3 mm and
a length of more than 5 cm; in our analogy where we
multiply by 200 billion, this corresponds to distances of
600 km (Eugene to Bellingham) for the diameter, and
100,000 km (Eugene to Maine and back). Other partici-
pants in compost are enzymes (catalysts for chemical
reactions where bonds are broken to take molecules
apart), DNA, K+, bacteria, fungal hyphae, protozoans,
nematodes and mites.
This was a great talk, and described from a chemical
viewpoint what happens to the “feedstock” in the com-
post pile as it is transformed into the bodies of the de-
composers and then into finished compost. The chal-
lenge is to understand how the soil-conditioning nature
of compost arises and also how nutrients from the feed-
stock are retained.
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Compost Specialists Committee (continued from previous page) Joanne Carlson , MG
After Margaret’s talk, we got down to the business of
being active compost specialists, talking about recent
upcoming presentations, demos, and such. Deb distrib-
uted signup sheets for demos at Extension, Grassroots
Garden, the May 14 worm bin workshop, the May 15
Mt. Pisgah wildflower show.
We also talked about opportunities for presentations at
the Fern Ridge library on the second Tuesday of each
month; Gary Jordan has offered to take the lead on a
compost presentation 7-8 pm July 12, but would like
some assistance if anyone is interested.
Work parties at Extension will be on the 2nd and 4th
Thursdays of each month from 9-12, but you could ar-
range to work different hours, too- talk to Patty Driscoll.
Someone to do a kids’ activity at Willamalane’s June 18
“Hero for a Day” event is needed, but since no one
seemed available, this was put on hold. Posters were
distributed for compost demos and the library presenta-
tion- we each took a few and signed up for where we
will post them. As always, if you want to sign up for
something, please contact Deb or Barbara if you can’t
attend a meeting.
The date and site(s) of the annual Compost Crawl held
each August are yet to be determined. Hopefully, we’ll
know more by next month’s meeting.
As the weather continues to improve, we should be
hearing more from Helen Liu about getting the compost
mural into production.
Congratulations to Nathan for exceeding his required 20
volunteer hours to become a Compost Specialist! He
planned on working with Rodney Bloom and Dave Kay-
fes at the “Decay for the Masses” lecture are the Eugene
Public Library from 2-4 pm May 15.
Our next meeting is at noon, Thursday, June 2, 2016,
and will be the last one before our summer break (from
meetings, but not from other activities).
Happy Gardening!
Adaptive Garden (AG) Committee Pat Patterson, MG
Five successful presentations have been given so
far this year. The next presentations will be at
Sheldon Park in late May and at Fern Ridge Li-
brary in June. Our committee has been contacted
to do at least five more presentations in June. Ac-
tivity directors from local care facilities will be
personally invited to visit our demo garden and to
schedule a presentation for their facility.
We are planting our new education bed behind Ex-
tension on Monday May 16. The irrigation has
been turned on now so tending our garden be-
comes much easier with the drip irrigation system.
Shirley and Pat with the help of Ellen Lacey have
submitted our demo garden in the "Search For Ex-
cellence" competition with Brooke’s support.
The committee discussed the acquisition of a fold-
ing wagon and a light-weight table to use at
presentations. We have many tools to use for our
presentations and may purchase bins in which to
store them for easy access. Each presentation is
unique and we choose which tools to take for each
audience.
The demo garden is looking very attractive. Please
stop by to enjoy it. There is a comfortable bench,
small table, small water feature, and wonderful
odors of honeysuckle and sweet peas.
Please join us at our next committee meeting June
14 at Extension from 2-4 p.m. Bring your creative
ideas and join the fun!
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Recent additions to the OSU Extension Catalog
EM 9141, Beware of Boxwood Blight! Cassie Bouska and Jay W. Pscheidt
New. This concise publication gives useful information for homeowners, master gardeners, and profes-
sional landscapers about the boxwood blight disease: its symptoms, sanitation measures when it is discov-
ered on a property, and preventive measures.
Master Gardener Tree Fruit Specialist Classes
Learn more about growing healthy fruit trees in home gardens and help home orchardists become part of a
sustainable food community by growing delicious fruit at home. As a Tree Fruit Specialist trainee, you will
learn from other Master Gardener Volunteer Tree Fruit Specialists, to teach hands-on and lecture classes
that will teach the public what they need to know to successfully grow healthy, productive fruit trees at
home. Classes demonstrate necessary techniques needed during the nine month fruit growing season. Sign
up at the OSU Extension Service office. MGs pay $25 for series.
June 18, 10 am – noon, Pest and Disease Control, OSU Extension office, 996 Jefferson St., Eugene.
July 16. 10 am – Noon, Budding, GrassRoots Garden, 1465 Coburg Rd., Eugene. Bring pruners and
sharp knife. Limited to 20 students.
August – No Meeting
September 24, 10 am – noon, Determining Ripeness and Storage, MG Fall Festival class, River Road
Park, 1400 Lake Drive, Eugene.
Water, Soil, and Carbon for Every Farm with Keyline Design: Learning from the world's driest inhabited continent and it’s drought solutions
The OSU Extension Small Farms Program is pleased to be hosting the fourth session in the Growing Resilience: Water Management Workshop Series with Australian Farm Planner, Author, Educator and Farmer, Darren J. Doherty (Regrarians Ltd.), on Water, Soil, and Carbon for Every Farm with Keyline Design: Learning from the world's driest inhabited continent and it’s drought solutions. This FREE event will take place on Thursday, June 2nd on OSU campus in Corvallis at the LaSells Stewart Center in the Construction & Engineering Hall from 2 - 9 pm with a refresh-ment break in the middle. Darren will be covering: • Holistic management, planned grazing and financial planning as a primary drought strategy • Keyline farm planning for the structural reconfiguration of the farmscape considering cost-
effective drought mitigation • Keyline and other regenerative agriculture strategies for soil and production improvements • ‘How much water do we actually need?' and 'what are all of the sources of water available to
me?' For more information and to RSVP visit http://smallfarms.oregonstate.edu/wmws or call OSU Ex-tension - Benton County at 541-722-3552. The Growing Resilience: Water Management Work-shop Series is funded in part by Western SARE. Darren J. Doherty will also be the lead attendee at a 10-day Integrated Farm Planning Convention in Albany, OR from June 3 – 12th. For more information and registration for this intensive course visit http://www.regrarians.org/product/rex7oregon/ or contact Andrew Millison ([email protected]).
The Garden Gate June 2016
Booth Opportunities
Restore Habitat with Friends of Buford Park & Mt. Pisgah!
Tuesdays, Thursdays & 1st/3rd Saturdays from 9am-noon,
Contact [email protected] or 541-344-8350 for directions and to RSVP
Our lovely 2-acre nursery at Buford Park is where we grow native plant materials for habitat restoration
projects throughout Buford Park and the greater Mt. Pisgah Area. It's a relaxing and fun way to spend your
time and makes a real difference in our ability to repopulate native species in the Willamette Valley. Share
what you know and build your native plant and seed saving experience! Please dress in layers and closed-
toed shoes. Bring a full water bottle. We’ll provide instruction, tools, gloves and snacks.
Not for MG volunteer credit!
Learning Opportunities Through Cascadia Permaculture
Earthen Plaster & Natural Finishes Workshop
July 22-24, 2016
Advanced Permaculture Course in Teaching
August 7 – 13, 2016
For more information: http://cascadiapermaculture.com/permaculture/courses-workshops/
To Register: [email protected]
Booth opportunities qualify as plant clinic hours. Class of 2016 MGs are reminded that their 66 hours of
volunteer service must be completed by October 31, 2016. Forty of the hours are to be in Plant Clinic ei-
ther in the office or a booth. Please sign up in the MG office or by calling 541-344-0265. Thank you for
all your time and effort to help with outreach to the public.
Florence Green Fair, June 121, 2016, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. It would be great to have one more MG volunteer.
Down to Earth, June 18, 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. or 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Sprout booth, Spr ingfield: June 10, June 24, shifts are 2:30-5 p.m. or 5-7:30 p.m.
Country Fair, July 8-10: contact MG Stephen Ramey at [email protected]
Lane County Fair, July 20-24: sign up available soon. Many volunteers needed.
BRING Tour, September 11: Location TBD, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Compost Specialists will provide a demonstration for the BRING tour at GrassRoots Garden
Compost Specialists sign up with Deb or Barbara.
Junior Master Gardener Adult Leader Training Beginning July 27, 2016 thru July 29, 2016
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service
3355 Cherry Ridge, Suite 208, San Antonio, TX 78230
For application visit our website at Bexar-tx.tamu.edu
Registration fee of $100 must be included with application and is non-refundable.
This registration fee of $100 is kept at this low price with the generous grant provided
by San Antonio Livestock Exposition. Deadline is July 18th.
11 Lane County Master Gardeners TM Association
Pat’s Green Friends: Wanted Dead – Shining Geranium (Geranium lucidum)
Pat Patterson , MG
It is said that beauty is only skin deep. Well, that is
certainly true with an invasive known as shining
geranium. This little cross-country ecosystem de-
stroyer has lovely green leaves and cute little pink
flowers. We live in a Douglas-fir forest and sud-
denly this spring I noticed a little low plant with
very shiny leaves. Since I teach weeds and wild-
lings and thus have to keep up on new invasives, I
was shocked to find about a 12’ by 30’ area at the
edge of the woods on my own property covered
with this weed. I have no idea where it came from,
although we had purchased some soil the year be-
fore and stored it in that area. That is my major sus-
picion. That area is now shrouded in heavy black
plastic with logs over it.
It is usually found in well-shaded woodlands and in
forest openings. It is sometimes found growing
with its close cousin herb Robert (Geranium
robertianum), but seems to be more limited by
shade than herb Robert. Although shiny geranium
does well in disturbed sites such as roadsides, it can
also invade into and overwhelm high quality native
habitat, both in forests and open grasslands. Unfor-
tunately it can wipe out the natural understory eco-
system of a woodland environment and is not easy
to stop.
This is a low-growing annual with small, pink, 5-
petaled flowers that grow in pairs on little stems.
The leaves are shiny (especially later in the season),
round to kidney-shaped with 5-7 lobes (that are
themselves shallowly lobed). Stems are reddish
and not hairy, up to 20 inches tall. Shining gerani-
um has escaped from gardens into wildlands, par-
ticularly in Oregon's Willamette Valley, as well as
a few locations in Washington State and California.
It has shown up as a contaminant in nursery stock
in Washington so care should be taken when pur-
chasing plants from infested areas. Do not buy this
plant nor its seeds, please.
Since it was first detected in 1971 it has become
naturalized in the Western United States and has
been spreading. Even if you do not live in this area,
be alert to this plant as in our age of rapid transit, it
could come to visit you as well
The seeds are still being sold in the UK. Indeed it is
a common weed in the UK and in Ireland and is
native to Eurasia. It even is used medicinally in
Russia. This is an excellent example of what hap-
pens when an insignificant plant is moved from its
native environment into one where none of the con-
trol factors recognize it and it is free to conquer. It
is a lesson to all us gardeners who constantly crave
the latest and newest to be aware of possible pit-
falls: English ivy, Japanese false bamboo, Kerria
and so many more.
Urban Weed ID Saturday, June 4, 2016 Come see weeds up close!
GrassRoots Garden
1465 Coburg Rd
from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
RAIN OR SHINE!
The Garden Gate June 2016
Pat’s Bugs: The Mighty Mites Pat Patterson , MG
Mites are not insects. They are in
the same class as spiders and scor-
pions, Arachnida. They are charac-
terized as having eight legs and
two body parts, but this is not true
for some of them.
Gardeners and indoor plant enthu-
siasts immediately think of the
plant feeding mites who can make our lives so dif-
ficult, but that is only one small group. We’ll take a
look at three groups of mites. Of course, since we
are most interested in the plant damaging group, it
will be discussed first! Mites can be very difficult
to identify to species or even gene-
ra because of their very small size.
Most plant feeding mites are spe-
cialists in a particular plant or per-
haps a plant family. The generalist
mites are the worst problem, such
as the two-spotted spider mite.
This mite is the bane of green-
houses and gardens. Other serious
mite pests are broad mites, brown
mites, citrus red mite, cyclamen mite and the Euro-
pean red mite. Plant feeding mites tend to be very
slow moving. The mite eggs are disproportionately
large to the size of the mite. The eggs are round.
These mites pierce the surface of the leaf, inject a
cell dissolving substance and suck out the cell con-
tents. Only then will they move to a new site.
Outbreaks of pest mites are frequently the result of
using insecticides applied to control other pests,
which wipe out the beneficials and allow quick re-
surgence of pests. If you see what seem to be mi-
nute spiders on your plant, blow
gently on them. The plant feeders
won’t move, the others will leave.
Drought stressed plants are espe-
cially desirable for pest mites. Have
a good magnifying lens to check
out your plants for invaders. It will
open up a new world and also help
you know what you are dealing
with. Know thy enemy.
An oddball group of mites are
eriophid mites. These microscopic
mites look like tiny worms and
live inside the leaf. Their feeding
causes galls on the leaves which
are sometimes quite fantastic as in
the bladdergall on maple and the
galls on grape leaves. They sel-
dom damage the health of the
plant, but are rather spectacular, even with a strange
beauty sometimes..
The second group is the predatory mites who feast
on the plant feeders. Predatory mites are usually
about the same size as their prey,
move quickly and are voracious.
The orange predatory mite con-
centrates on spider mites. It will
clear an area of spider mites so
well that it then dies of starva-
tion. Most predatory mites are
longer legged and pear-shaped
and shinier than the pests. Their
eggs are oblong. There are preda-
tory mites in 13 mite families of
the 200 in existence. Most are fond of other mites,
insect eggs, very small insects or thrips. Many are
specialized to eat only one prey, like the poor or-
ange predatory mite. In a pinch the others may feed
on fungi. Many insect predators also enjoy a mite
snack.
A very important third group are the soil mites
which are often microscopic and who are incredibly
important to the life of our soils. In the subterrane-
an world they fill many niches: scavengers, decom-
posers of dead plant material, predators, fungus eat-
ers, etc. And these are in turn eat-
en by others higher in the food
chain. Probably most have not
even yet been identified. It just
shows that even the smallest be-
ings in the environment have im-
portant, even essential roles.
Predatory mite on the attack.
Two-spotted spider mite
Soil mites
13 Lane County Master Gardeners TM Association
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Basic Food Preservation 101, $25 per person - Class held at OSU Extension office
996 Jefferson Street, Eugene (enter door from 10th at the ramp)
Green Beans, $30 per person - Class held at Community of Christ Church,
1485 Gilham Road, Eugene
Master Food Preserver Spring Class Offerings
Class Registration Form - Credit Card option on web http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/announcements/food-preservation-baking-classes
O S U E x t e n s i o n S e r v i c e - L a n e C o u n t y
M a s t e r F o o d P r e s e r v e r
Spring Class Offerings Basic Food Preservation 101
Overview of Home Food Preservation for the Beginner
Saturday, June 25, 2016 ~ 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
With the increased interest in home food preservation the Master Food Preservers
will be presenting a fun filled workshop with the do’s and don’ts of home food
preservation. The workshop will include an overview of canning, freezing, drying,
pickling, and making jams and jellies. You will learn what is safe to do at home and
what is not. You will also learn what equipment you will need as well as tips and
tricks for quick and easy preservation so you can enjoy eating locally produced
foods year-round. (Cost $25). Class held at OSU Extension office
996 Jefferson Street, Eugene (enter door from 10th at the ramp).
What to do with all those Green Beans Saturday, July 16, 2016 ~ 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Enjoy this popular vegetable year-round. Learn to can, freeze, dry and pickle green
beans. Care and use of the pressure canner is included. Some hands-on activities.
(Cost $30). Class held at Community of Christ Church, 1485 Gilham Road, Eugene.
Location:
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The Garden Gate June 2016
June 2016 Hort Happenings
2 Compost Specialist meeting, OSU Extension office, 996 Jefferson St., Eugene, Noon-2 p.m.
4 Weed Walk, Rebecca Shepherd, GrassRoots Garden, 1465 Coburg Rd., Eugene, 11:30 am-12:30 p.m. FREE.
4 Diagnostic Specialist Training, Part 2, OSU Extension Service office, 9 am-1 pm
8 Strawberry Open House, North Willamette Researcy and Extension Center (NWREC) OSU, 15210 NE Miley Road, Aurora, 1 - 5 pm. contact 971-373-5912 or visit http://oregonstate.edu/dept/NWREC/
8 Spiders, with John Parrott, Advanced Training for MGs, 6 -8 pm, OSU Extension office.
9 Demo Garden Volunteer Work Party. 9 am-Noon. OSU Extension Eugene garden.
9 LCMGA Board meeting, OSU Extension Office, noon - 2 pm
10 SPROUT, Ask-an-MG Booth, Springfield Farmers Market, 418 A St, Springfield, 2:30-7:30 p.m.
11 Compost Demo, GrassRoots Garden, 1465 Coburg Rd, 10 a.m.- noon, FREE.
11 Florence Green Fair, Florence Event Center, 715 Quince St, Florence 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
14 Adaptive Gardening meeting, OSU Extension Office, 2 - 4 p.m. FREE.
18 Home Orchard Management, Pest & Disease Control, OSU Extension, 996 Jefferson St, Eugene, 10 am - Noon, $25.
21 Master Gardener Seminar, Native & Exotic Insects, Christine Buhl, PhD, OSU Extension, 7-8:30 p.m. FREE.
21-22 Sustainable Landscape Training, OSU Extension Office, 996 Jefferson, $25 Preregistration required.
23 Demo Garden Volunteer Work Party. 9 a.m.-Noon. OSU Extension Eugene garden.
24 SPROUT, Ask-an-MG Booth, Springfield Farmers Market, 418 A St, Springfield, 2:30-7:30 pm.
25 Master Food Preservers, Basic Food Preservation 101, 10am - 1 pm, Learn to can, freeze, dry and pick-le them. , Community of Christ Church, 1485 Gilham Road Eugene, $30 Must pre-register.
29 Caneberry Field Day at NWREC, 1 - 5 p.m. Contact 971-373-5912 or visit http://oregonstate.edu/dept/NWREC/
July
2 Weed Walk, Rebecca Shepherd, GrassRoots Garden, 1465 Coburg Rd., Eugene, 11:30 am-12:30 p.m. FREE
6 Blueberry Field Day Field Day at NWREC, 1 - 5 p.m. Contact 971-373-5912 or visit http://oregonstate.edu/dept/NWREC/
8,9,10 Oregon Country Fair, Veneta. Sign-up sheet in Plant Clinic room.
11 Master Food Preservation/Food Safety & Preservation Hotline open July 11 - October 14, 9 am-4 pm, 1-800-354-7319.
12 LCMGA Board meeting, OSU Extension Office noon - 2 pm
14 Adaptive Gardening meeting, OSU Extension Office, 2 - 4 pm
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We are pleased to send this material to you as a part of the educa-
tional activities of the OSU Extension Service - Lane County Mas-
ter Gardener™ Program.
Brooke Edmunds, Ph.D.
We will endeavor to provide public accessibility to services, programs, and activities for people with disabilities. If accommodation is needed to participate at any meeting, please contact the ADA Coordinator at the Lane County office of OSU Extension Service at 541.344.5859 at least two weeks prior to the sched-
uled meeting time.
June 21 Native & Exotic Tree Pests of
Oregon
Christine Buhl, PhD.
July 19 Diagnosing Plant Disease Plant Disease Diagnostic Committee
August 16 Biological Controls in the
Garden
Heather Stoven
Sept. 20 Growing and Harvesting
Medicinal Herbs
Marjory House
2016 MG Seminars
During 2016 The third Tuesday MG Seminars are planned to be held at the OSU Extension Service,
996 Jefferson St., Eugene. (Enter on 10th Avenue).
Native and Invasive Tree Pests of Oregon
Tuesday, June 21 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Free & open to the public!
OSU Extension Service office
996 Jefferson Street, Eugene
(enter on 10th at the ramp)