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Weatherizing for extreme temps In the Great Lakes region, climate change models anticipate that global warming will increase the risk, intensity and duration of temperature extremes. This forecast presents a challenge for cities like Rochester, New York, which typically only experience about 12 days over 90 F in the summer. By the end of the century, over 70 days in summer could be in that temperature range. In addition, cities including Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland and Buffalo have aging populations and high rates of poverty. Both of these factors increase vulnerability. Before the advent of air conditioning, “passive” cooling systems were the norm in building design. Window shades, light-colored materials and coatings, insulation and natural ventilation all reduce temperatures indoors. Recently, researchers have renewed their interest in “passive survivability,” or systems that don’t require electricity but still protect people during a brownout or blackout. Making homes safer: As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, access to safe housing is a critical resource. A national evaluation of the Weatherization Assistance Program indicates that weatherized homes may be better equipped to

provide safe, healthy environments in times of need. For example, programs like the “Warm and Dry” effort from People United for Sustainable Housing in Buffalo provide basic repairs that can stop the growth of mold indoors. Other weatherization providers give advice on cleaning and maintenance that can reduce the number of asthma attacks. Unfortunately, due to funding constraints, weatherization programs can’t ensure necessary repairs in every household that qualifies. And taking on simple home repairs can be surprisingly difficult, especially for households with limited financial resources. For example, opening windows is critical in heat waves, but in many older homes windows may have been painted over several times. In cities like Buffalo, which

has one of the oldest housing stocks in the country, cracking a window may require several steps. Once windows are freed, damaged locks or balancing mechanisms often need to be repaired. Screens should be installed, since open windows can allow insects or other pests into the

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Quick starting vegetable gardens clear, trying growing a few impatiens, popular annual flowers for shady areas. They are a great plant to grow to help you learn water management. When impatiens dry out, they will readily wilt, telling you it’s time to water and then bounce right back when water is applied. Other plants are not as telling (of forgiving).

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its first month of life. Of course, this varies greatly depending on the species, but the concept is sound. There are exceptions to every garden rule, and tomatoes break the rules just mentioned. While it is important to force new root growth, once a tomato starts producing fruit, it needs very consistent moisture conditions to produce high quality fruit. Moisture swings due to our variable weather add to the challenges of successfully growing tomatoes. When you forget to water, flooding a plant to make up for it can do more harm than good. Just water it regularly to help a plant recover from drought damage. If this is still un-

problem with commercially produced products. ––– It seems like my biggest gardening issue is knowing when and how much to water, can you please provide some basic guidelines? Unfortunately, There are three to make sure the there is no simple primary ways plants herbicide is safe to formula as moisture can be damaged: use in your specific needs constantly • Off target drift. situation. Do not evolve throughout The most common default to “it doesn’t the growing season. broadleaf weed killsay you can’t”. Only Here are a few tips ers (such as dandeuse the product if to get you started: lions or chickweed) the label spells out Consistent moiscontain the active that it is clearly safe ture for new plants ingredient 2.4-D, or to do so. Another (seed or transplants) a closely related her- way to misapply is is critical. Do not bicide. Even if you to use one sprayer allow the soil surface are not familiar with for multiple prodto dry completely this herbicide, you ucts. Make sure but avoid saturating likely know it by its you use different the soil. If you can very distinctive odor. sprayers for different squeeze water out of If you smell “weed classes of pesticides, the soil, it’s too wet. killer” chances are and clean them thor- If you see a noticevery good this is it. oughly after each able color change, The potential for use. it’s probably getting damage is high for • Indirect contam- too dry. these products beination via mulch Once plants are cause even the vapor or compost. This established, the drift can harm sensi- problem is not as rules change a bit. tive garden crops, to- common as the first At this point, it is matoes being at the two but it does hap- helpful to let the soil top of the list. While pen. Lawn clippings, surface dry slightly we usually think of hay, and manure are between waterings. spray drift from a all valuable tools for This helps lower liquid application, enhancing the grow- disease and weed even the vapor from ing environment pressure, and it ena granular product but can potentially courages the develwill cause damage contain herbicide opment of a healthy under the right residues. Most herroot system as the (wrong) circumstanc- bicides readily break plant is forced to es. Always, read down soon after appush roots into exthe label and follow plication and are not panding territory to the proper applicaproblematic, but a find water. tion instructions, few are. To sum up the including weather It always pays to first two points, the conditions related to do a little bit of reneeds of a seedling wind, soil moisture search on the source could change from and temperature. of your materials be- a couple of light • Misapplication fore making applica- sprinkles a day to of product. Once tions to your garden. one good thorough again, read the label Note: This is not a soaking a week over

This “Quick Starting” series is an attempt at responding to the surge in interest in growing your own food, perhaps for the first time. Since right now is gardening go time, and proper timing is an important part of that, this article will just be hitting on basic action points without dedicating space to the why of the task. Based on feedback from last week’s column, it’s apparent that a Q&A format may be the most helpful way to do this. If you need detailed information on any topic or would like to see a topic covered, please see the contact info below. Before we get into this week’s question, we need to talk about one of the most common problems facing gardeners, unintended herbicide damage. This is one of the most common gardening related problems we see in the extension office. It often goes undiagnosed as many gardeners don’t even realize they have damage as they assume their declining plants have been attacked by disease or insects. With more people working on their home landscapes this season, the potential exists for this problem to be more common than usual.

Keeping utility costs in check There are several steps that owners and renters can take to keep their utility bills as low as possible if the COVID-19 virus is forcing them to spend more time inside their home.

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DEAR DAVE: My husband and I were ordered by our employers to work from home until the coronavirus gets under control, which is kind of cool because we get to spend more time with our kids. The problem is, our utility bills have gone way up because we now both live and work here. What can we do? ANSWER: I understand your problem. Millions of families have seen their utility bills skyrocket after stay-at-home orders were enacted across the nation, leaving many homeowners struggling to keep their house warm, their water running and their lights turned on during the COVID-19 pandemic. To lessen your financial burden, start by contacting the companies that provide your gas, electric, water and other services. Many are willing

ABOUT REAL ESTATE DAVID MYERS to temporarily suspend bills now or offer other types of financial relief. Focus on what you can do in your own home to keep your energy and water costs as low as possible. Try to keep your thermostat at around 68 degrees, even if means wearing a sweater or jacket while working at your desk or dining-room table. Make sure that you turn off lights in a room when you or your loved ones leave it. This is especially important for parents who now have a kid learning from home because most public schools are closed: It’s easy for a child or young teenager to forget to turn off a light, TV or video console after spending a day attending online classes or playing games to unwind. Similarly, make sure to kill your “energy vampires.” Unused lamps, or even the cellphone you might plug into

the wall to charge overnight, can ramp-up your bills if they are still connected to an outlet even when they are no longer in use. Turn off your coffeemaker after you have had your cup or two of morning Joe. Many, like mine, have an automated warming pad that keeps the coffee hot for an hour or two after brewing is finished, which energy-monitoring firm Sense (www. sense.com) claims can add an extra $5 each month to your utility bills. It costs next to nothing to shut the warming pad down and instead reheat your cup of java in a microwave, Sense reports. And finally, make sure that you have swapped out your old-fashioned incandescent light bulbs with energy-saving LED bulbs. The LED bulbs can trim your monthly electric bill by 75% or more, according to the fed-

erally run Energy Star website (www. energystar.gov) reports, saving you a lot of money in both monthly and longterm costs because they provide as much light as conventional bulbs at a much lower cost and will last much longer. ––– REAL ESTATE TRIVIA: Energystar.gov provides several other tips to save money on utilities and includes a feature that allows you to create a customized “energy profile” of your home to help discover ways to cut down on gas and electric bills. ––– DEAR DAVE: What does it mean when a mortgage loan is advertised “at par”? ANSWER: A par rate is the rate on a loan to a borrower who does not want to pay any upfront points. A point is prepaid interest, with each point equal to 1% of the total loan amount. For example, one nationwide lender was recently offering 30-year fixed-rate loans at 3.1% to borrowers who were willing to pay one point in advance. The par rate for a loan that involved

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Moreover, when renters skip their rent, they still owe it – it will need to be repaid at a later date. These emergency measures do little to help landlords cover their expenses. It does prohibit lenders from foreclosing on landlords with federally backed mortgages, should they fail to make payment. But it does nothing to help them pay employees, utility bills or their property taxes. And when landlords cannot pay property taxes, it becomes even more difficult for hard-pressed cities, towns and school districts to provide essential services. Room for improvement? One alternative would be for the government to pay landlords directly to cover the loss of rental income. Rep. Ilhan Omar, for example, is proposing that all renters have their rents canceled, with landlords applying for compensation from the federal government. A downside of this approach is the potential for providing assistance to landlords and tenants who do not need it. It would also require a new apparatus to administer the program, which could delay implementation. Advocates and policymakers have suggested other ways government could address the looming rental housing crisis.

The approach partially adopted by the CARES Act is to compensate displaced workers for their loss of income. This could be expanded through repeated cash payments to households. Alternatively, unemployment benefits could be increased. But there is also no guarantee that recipients will use the funds for housing or that funds would be targeted at low-income households that require assistance. The government could pay employers to keep workers on their payroll and hire back those they have let go. It has already adopted this approach to an extent, but not anywhere close to the scale that would be necessary. Scaling up these efforts would probably take months and may not be politically feasible. Vouchers: We believe a more viable option would be expanding the government’s Housing Choice Voucher program. Established in 1974, it enables low-income households to rent housing in the private market, paying no more than 30% of their income on rent, with the government paying the rest. It is available to all low-income households and currently serves 2.2 million households – although as many as 10 million were eligible for the program

before the COVID crisis. The program already has the administrative apparatus needed to handle an increase in participants: a nationwide network of over 3,300 housing authorities with decades of experience. Many have already demonstrated their capacity to dramatically expand

operations to accommodate new households in the event of natural disasters, such as hurricanes and floods. If expanded to meet the demands of the current crisis, the Housing Choice Voucher program could act as a shock absorber for the rental housing market.

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$2.2 trillion CARES Act on March 27. Stay of eviction: The legislation provides considerable support to homeowners but much less to renters. Homeowners with government-supported mortgages such as those that are guaranteed by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, accounting for 70% of all outstanding mortgages, can skip mortgage payments for up to 12 months without risk of foreclosure. Missed payments will instead by added to their mortgage balances. Renters are afforded some protection. The legislation forbids private and public owners of rental housing financed with government assistance – about 28% of all rentals – from evicting tenants for nonpayment of rent over a period of six months. In addition to the CARES Act, 15 states and 24 cities have temporarily suspended evictions for nearly all renters in their jurisdictions. The CARES Act also provides relief in the shape of expanded unemployment benefits as well as a one-off payment of $1,200 to eligible adults and an extra $500 per child. But rental protection is unlikely to last more than a few months – less if stays on eviction are not enforced, as has been the case in a number of states.

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severe housing affordability crisis. The most recent data shows that 10.7 Emergency relief million households, for renters across one-quarter of all America may protect renters, spend more them from the threat than half of their of eviction during the income on rent, incoronavirus crisis – cluding 56% of all but it won’t last for renters earning less long. than US$30,000 per The economic shut- year. More than 2.3 down necessitated by million renters are COVID-19 has unevicted annually. On dermined the ability any given night, more of millions of families than 500,000 people and individuals to are homeless, and pay their landlords. nearly three times as But current meamany went homeless sures to alleviate during the course of a their hardship will single year. not last through the More than 20 milsummer, leaving the lion people have filed country at risk of a for unemployment surge of evictions and benefits since the homelessness within shutdown began, and months. this number is likely The current crisis to climb higher in the also hits landlords, weeks ahead. small ones especially, The people most who may now strugat risk of losing their gle to meet mortgage jobs are those who payments, property work in low-paying taxes and other service industries essential expenses. such as restaurants, Again, the measures hotels, personal seroffered by Congress vices and the retail provide only limited sector. They are also relief. disproportionately As scholars of hous- likely to rent their ing policy, we know homes. that for any measure Many of these to have real impact, it workers will struggle will need to address to pay landlords in problems facing both the coming months. tenants and landAs of 2019, the Fedlords. Such a solution eral Reserve reported may already exist in that about 40% of all the Housing Choice households could not Voucher program, a cover an unexpected 40-year-old program $400 expense without which enables low-in- borrowing funds or come households to selling a possession. afford rental housing In an effort to in the private marprovide relief to famket. ilies and business Rental crisis: hit by the economic The coronavirus meltdown, President worsens an already Trump signed the Kirk McClure

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Victory gardens, a century later By Kristin M. Hall Associated Press

started encouraging gardening as good economics after the Depression. And as it looked for healthy young men to draft, the government promoted nutrition as part of the national defense, Hayden-Smith said. Hayden-Smith sees social-media posts about gardening during the pandemic as a 21st century version of the victory garden poster. “We don’t have poster art, but we have Instagram,” she said. In Chicago, a nonprofit called Urban Growers Collective teaches kids and others to grow vegetables at eight urban farms around the city. While their spring educational programs are on hold due to rules on social distancing, co-founder Laurell Sims said they are still focusing on food production and getting produce to families that need it. The group is selling bags of homegrown vegetables like kale, spinach and scallions. “We’re starting to see prices spike here in Chicago for certain kinds of produce just because it’s harder to get it,” Sims said. She said most community gardens right now are closed, but her group is hoping to

get them reopened with limits on the number of people allowed to work in them at one time. “The whole heart of a community garden is a community,” said Sims. “When we know that our neighbors are sick, when we know our neighbors are compromised, we’re able to help them out.” Gardening skills were once passed on from generation to generation, but farming became more industrialized and people moved away from rural areas. Now there’s nostalgia for a connection to the land, including gardening, preserving and cooking at home. Across the country, stores are selling out of flowers, vegetable plants, seeds, and garden soil and compost. At Burpee Seeds, an online, catalog and retail supplier, business has doubled during the pandemic. George Ball, chairman of Burpee, said this cyclical interest in gardening is tied to the national economy. “We do really well when the economy is stressed or sort of knocked sideways,” Ball said, adding that Burpee also saw an uptick in seed purchases during the Great Recession and the

stock market crash in 1987. Brenda Flowers, in Crystal River, Florida, built a tall raised garden for her 96-year-old mother, Lorraine, who grew up in the Great Depression and was among the many women who went to work in factories during World War II to replace the men who were fighting overseas. “Wouldn’t that be so cool if she could go out and just rip off some lettuce leaves and pull up some radishes and some carrots and kale, just like she did when she

was younger?” said Flowers. Before the coronovirus, Bettie Egerton wanted to revive victory gardens in her community of McMinnville, Oregon, to address climate change. She handed out victory garden signs for people to put in their gardens, and encouraged people to avoid buying produce that was trucked in from thousands of miles away. Now, Egerton says the idea of a victory garden has added resonance. “It’s like victory over all kinds of things,” she said.

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os of Las Cruces, New Mexico, was a self-employed contract worker before the virus, but his work has dried up. So he borrowed a tiller from a neighbor and dug a 30-by-30-foot garden in his backyard. He filled it with compost and planted lettuce, beets, kale and broccoli. He plans to grow squash, melons, tomatoes and peppers, too. He and his girlfriend found a friend on Facebook who was giving out seedlings. “It’s not like we needed this in order to get groceries,” said Sferios. “It’s more like, wow, what do I do now? I don’t have work and I have all this time on my hands.” A common reason to grow vegetables during WWI was limited food supply. America was sending food to European allies and American troops, explained HaydenSmith. Victory gardens also were a way to assimilate America’s many new immigrants through a patriotic and community-building effort. “So these gardening posters and food preservation posters would appear in literally dozens of languages,” said Hayden-Smith. By WWII, the federal government

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During World War I, posters proclaiming “Food will win the war” encouraged Americans to grow victory gardens. A century later, home gardeners are returning to that idea in the fight against a global pandemic. Backyard gardeners are coming together, mostly virtually, to learn and share stories on how to grow vegetables, fruits and flowers as the novel coronavirus raises fears about disruptions in food supplies and the cost of food in a down economy. Creating a victory garden now can be, as it was during World Wars I and II, a shared experience during hardship and uncertainty. “World War I, to me, is a pretty stark parallel,” said Rose HaydenSmith, a historian and author of “Sowing the Seeds of Victory: American Gardening Programs of World War I.” “Not only was there a war, but there was an influenza pandemic.” Now, gardeners new and old are getting online and on social media to post pictures of freshly tilled

backyards, raised garden beds, seeds germinating under grow lights or flocks of chickens. Facebook groups like Victory Garden 2020 or Victory Garden Over COVID-19 are filling up. Some of these gardeners are newly unemployed, or working parents stuck at home with bored kids. Others are gardening enthusiasts who never had the time before to delve deep into the hobby. Urban community gardeners are ramping up production to feed families who have lost income and kids who no longer get meals at school. Jennifer McShane had to close her bar in Brooklyn due to the COVID-19 spread in New York City. She’s been eating mostly frozen vegetables and is wary of buying fresh produce from a grocery store. But she knew how to plant herbs in containers on her brownstone’s patio, so she picked up some tomato seeds, sowed them indoors and labeled them “Seeds of Hope.” “I can’t wait for the plants to come in because I am desperate,” said McShane. “The things I am missing are the fresh things.” Emanuel Sferi-

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Whitney Ct. McElroy Rd.

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Aloysius Cr.

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Swim Av.

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Thomas Av. Frances Av.

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Tobacco Rd.

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Newman Av. Hillcrest Av. Brown Av.

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Stonecrest Ct.

Duncan

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