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In the Garden
Garden cleanup should not be too thorough
Dead leaves on the ground, dead stems on trees and shrubs, dead plants where flowers and vegetables once strutted their stuff — how forlorn the yard can look this time of year. The urge is to tidy things up by blowing or raking leaves out of sight, pruning away unwanted branches and ripping dead plants out of the ground. Garden cleanup has its virtues but can do more harm than good if taken to excess. AUTUMN LEAVES HAVE THEIR PLACE For instance, many gardeners like to clear dead leaves out from beneath shrubbery, where the leaves often come to rest after fall winds give them a few swirls around the yard. In fact, trees and shrubs would love to have their roots cozied in beneath a thick blanket of leaves. Such a blanket keeps roots warmer in winter, cooler in summer, and moister yearLEE REICH round. All of which spurs roots to grow more, and more root growth means more robust plants. Many gardeners similarly wield leaf blowers and rakes to remove leaves that have drifted onto the lawn. But these leaves do no harm there, unless they blanket the ground so thickly that they exclude light. A final pass with the mower might be all that is needed to grind leaves fine enough to filter down through the grassy blades to the soil. A mulching mower, or a conventional mower fit with a mulching blade, does this job well. The benefits of working the leaves into the lawn are similar to those of raking leaves beneath shrubbery. Next summer, your lawn will look nicer and be better able to survive periodic droughts. WHAT ABOUT PRUNING? Let’s next take a look at all those dead and misplaced tree and shrub branches, many no longer hidden behind green leaves. Wouldn’t it be nice to prune these plants to look healthy, prim and pretty now? Anytime you notice them is a good time to prune dead branches and, in most cases, diseased ones too. Generally, though, don’t prune for beauty at this time of year. Fall pruning might stimulate a little cell activity at a time when plants should be shutting down in preparation for the cold. And wounds left by fall pruning stay exposed all winter. So plants are more likely to be injured by cold weather, and pruning wounds are more likely to get infected if plants are pruned now than if pruned in late winter or early spring. Don’t bother with wound dressings to avert infections; they’re generally useless. See Garden p. 2D
This undated photo shows a perennial garden in New Paltz, N.Y. Leaving a few old plants and seedbeds, rather than thorough garden cleanup, keeps the garden interesting all through winter. (AP photo)
Queen City Seed Library seeks donations
By ABBEY PALMER Education Coordinator MSU Upper Peninsula Research and Extension Center — North Farm MARQUETTE — Patrons of the Peter White Public Library in Marquette may have noticed an unusual item in circulation – seeds! In 2015, community groups with an interest in gardening and food security came together to organize a seed library. Seed libraries have cropped up all over the country as an increased interest in local food and community health has put the spotlight on gardening. A visit to the seed library at the Munising Public Library inspired Transition Marquette County, MQT Growth, Partridge Creek Farm and Michigan State University North Farm to set up a seed library for Marquette-area residents. The Queen City Seed Library makes use of a wooden card catalog cabinet that once held library records, repurposing it to organize hundreds of envelopes of seeds. What is a seed library? In the “Lexicon of Sustainability,” Douglas Gayeton says “public libraries offer, preserve and lend books. Seed libraries do the same by both safeguarding and sharing heritage seeds; and by housing a seed library at a real library, you can reach a fuller spectrum of the
Saving seed from beans and peas, at left, is considered a good starting place for beginner seed savers. The Queen City Seed Library, which can be accessed at the Peter White Public Library in Marquette, will host its fifth annual seed swap event at the Marquette Arts and Culture Center on March 23. (Photos courtesy of Abbey Palmer)
community.” Anyone is welcome to visit the Queen City Seed Library and “check out” seeds. The process for checking seeds out is simple: choose seeds, mark what has been taken in a binder stored on top of the cabinet, and plant the seeds in your garden! Plants from just a few of the “borrowed” seeds will produce enough new seeds to replenish the “borrowed” seeds. The new seeds are then “returned” to the seed library, which helps keep it
going. Each year, the Queen City Seed Library hosts a Seed Swap, which allows community members to bring the seeds they have saved and share them with others. This is also the main venue for those who have “borrowed” seeds from the seed library to “return” seeds. “We’ve received donations from seed companies and U.P. seed savers,” said Mike Riesterer of Transition Marquette County. “But to keep our seed library going, we
hope to see gardeners saving seeds to bring to the Seed Swap.” The Queen City Seed Library’s fifth annual seed swap will be held at the Marquette Arts and Culture Center on March 23. In addition to “seed swapping,” the event will offer gardeners a chance to meet one another and learn more about the science and practice of seed saving. Saving seeds helps preserve food plants that grow See Seeds p. 2D
New-home sales slump for 4th straight month By JOSH BOAK AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON — Sales of new U.S. homes plunged 5.5 percent in September, the fourth straight monthly drop as the housing market cools with mortgage rates rising. The Commerce Department said Wednesday that newly built homes sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 553,000 last month. Newhome sales in August were downwardly revised, erasing the previously reported gain. The annual rate of home sales has dropped 15.3 percent since May, eliminating much of the strength in sales from the first five months of 2018. Builders had assumed that a stronger economy would push up sales, yet a greater share of new construction is going unpurchased. There is 7.1 months’ supply of new homes on the
In this June 27 photo, a sold sign stands in front of a home under construction in West Des Moines, Iowa. On Wednesday, the Commerce Department reports on sales of new homes in September. (AP photo) market, the highest level since March 2011 when the real estate bust caused by subprime mortgages was still weighing on the economy.
Housing has found itself in a downturn in recent months despite the unSee Sales p. 2D
MOVIE MAGIC AT HOME
Harry Potter party crafts thrive years after books
This August photo provided by Selah Hovda shows two guests practicing spells during her son's Harry Potter-themed birthday party in Phoenix, Ariz. Hovda says the guests' favorite part of the party was having spell battles with homemade wands. (AP photo)
By ROSE SHILLING Associated Press For crafty Harry Potter fans, throwing a party themed to the stories can be the ultimate DIY labor of love. Two excuses for throwing a Harry Potter party are coming soon: Halloween and the November release of the franchise‘s latest movie, “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald.“ Online instructions can help you make stuffed or sculpted recreations of the movie‘s magical beasts, including Nifflers and Bowtruckles, and the main character‘s creature-toting suitcase is inspiring cakes and party decorations. But want-to-be witches and wizards don‘t need excuses to put a Harry Potter spin on kid and adult birthday parties, quincea eras, brunches, housewarmings, gender reveals for expected babies, bachelorette festivities,
movie-watching marathons and Christmas gettogethers. Additions to the vast online trove of Harry Potter craft ideas keep coming, even though the original book series ended about 10 years ago. You can draw messenger owls on white balloons with notes attached, make wands from carryout chopsticks and hot glue, and create “floating“ candles with battery-powered lights poking from toilet paper rolls painted white. The candles, with drips made of glue, hang overhead on hard-to-see plastic string to imitate an enchanted ceiling at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. At Debra Hawkins‘ party for her daughter‘s eighth birthday in Lehi, Utah, she stuffed small, brown, construction-paper witch hats with candy-coated chocolates in green, red, See Magic p. 2D
This photo provided by Selah Hovda shows a Sorting Hat made by Hovda for her son's Harry Potter-themed birthday party in Phoenix, Ariz.The papermache Sorting Hat was made with a base of cereal boxes and cost about $5. (AP photo)
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M agic from 1D blue or yellow to represent the colors of Hogwarts‘ four student houses. Kids tore into the hats to reveal their house assignments, a riff on the stories‘ Sorting Hat ceremony. “You can do a Harry Potter party completely from scratch and make absolutely everything yourself, or you can find all the things that other people have done and roll with it that way,“ says Hawkins. “That‘s the really nice thing about so many people loving Harry Potter: There‘s just so much out there.“ Harry Potter ideas and tutorials are one of the biggest draws to Angie Jensen‘s crafting blog, Jonesing2Create , beating out her Star Wars party posts, she says. To keep a party manageable, veteran planners suggest choosing just a few crafts. Jensen focused on activities rather than perfect goody bags or decorations. “I‘m not a Pinterest mom,“ she says. “If I‘m not having fun anymore, then I‘m out.“ For a version of the wizard sport Quidditch, she made pool-noodle brooms and attached hula hoops to plastic plumbing tubes stuck in her California yard. To make a Dementor pi ata, she taped a treat-filled paper bag on top of a pool noodle with Halloween prop hands attached. A black shirt covered the noodle, and a black skirt served as the Dementor‘s cloak, hiding the bag. The supplies cost $3. “That was a super-easy one,“ she says. Hawkins hung stone-patterned paper on the walls for a Hogwarts Castle feel, and affixed potion labels made by her designer husband on thrift-store bottles filled with colored water. She shares the labels on her blog, Housewife Eclectic, along with other printable files, including paper house ties and Hogwarts acceptance letters. Many graphic designers and hobbyists offer free or inexpensive downloads, including Platform 9 signs, and labels for licorice wands, chocolate frogs and other wizard candy. For an adult viewing party of the first “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them,“ Hawkins focused more on decorations and snacks. But even adults wanted to participate in a house sorting ceremony, she says. She made mini Sorting Hats by pressing chocolate
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If you can’t resist the urge to grab your pruning shears and beautify some trees and shrubs, work with plants that are very cold-hardy and subject to few diseases — ornamentals such as spirea, snowberry, sumacs, and ninebark, and fruits such as gooseberries and currants. SOME CLEANUP IS IN ORDER The place to put most of your tidying energy is into your vegetable and flower beds. Old, infected plant parts left lying around can help spread diseases like
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tomato leafspots, powdery mildew of zinnia, phlox, and other plants, and peony botrytis. For specific concerns such as these, it pays to thoroughly clean up this time of year. In this case, ripping dead, old plants, stems or leaves out of the garden and then carting them away to the compost pile also carries away some potential pest problems. Another reason to clean up vegetables and flowers now is to give you an earlier start next spring when the urge strikes you to plant. But some restraint is needed even where vegetables and flowers grew. A few
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employment rate falling to a nearly halfcentury low of 3.7 percent. The National Association of Realtors said last week that existing-home sales — the largest share of the market — had plummeted 3.4 percent in September to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.15 million. The major culprit for the decline in homebuying appears to be higher borrowing costs. Average 30-year mortgage rates have
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This August 2018 photo provided by Selah Hovda shows a Mandrake plant Hovda made for her child's Harry Potterthemed birthday party at her home in Phoenix, Ariz. Hovda made the replica of the screaming Mandrake plant from the "Harry Potter" series using plastic foam wrapped in twine. (Selah Hovda via AP) chews into cone shapes, and then putting them on cupcakes filled with colored candy. Selah Hovda of Phoenix used supplies from around the house and shopped early for deals for her son‘s eighth birthday party. She made a papier-mache Sorting Hat with a cereal-box base for about $5, passing up one that cost about $50 at a store. And she created a version of the screaming Mandrake plant from plastic foam wrapped in twine with fake green leaves. “Dollar Tree is my best friend,“ she says. Her son enjoyed making wands for favors, adding bits of yarn and pipe cleaners to dowel rods, and painting his creations. “He thought it was pretty cool because he was able to put his own little flair on that,“ she says. The wands were guests‘ favorite. “All night they were having little battles,“ she says. How to make wands: SUPPLIES wooden rods, paper rolled tightly to a point, or leftover disposable chopsticks glue gun, glue sticks
acrylic or spray paint optional: beads, fake gems, mini pinecones, twine, other odds and ends DIRECTIONS Add glue layers to one end of the stick or rod to build up a handle, stopping to dry if too drippy. Tip: Stand the stick upside down in a glass while drying. Add glue in rings, dots, swirls or knobby bumps. Attach embellishments. Once the glue hardens, paint half the wand and let it dry. Then paint the other half. Try metallic colors or wood tones.
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well here during the U.P.’s short season, and saving seeds from food plants that thrive here helps preserve the genetics that are suited to the region’s season and climate — and increasing the resiliency of our food system by providing seeds for the community. If you’re interested in seed saving, now is the time of year to collect what your garden has provided. Whether it’s opening up a tomato to save the seeds or clipping the heads off of Echinacea flowers, the main time of year for seed collection is in the fall. While saving seeds is
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related to plant breeding, which involves understanding plant genetics, many plants have flowers which are largely self-pollinating. This means that the incidence of cross-pollination is relatively low, and it is likely that the seeds saved from plants like peas, beans and tomatoes will produce similar offspring. Peas are a good starting point for seed saving, as pea varieties do not require any isolation distance, though they do benefit from trellising to prevent dampness and ensuing mold that can rot the pods. To save pea seeds, simply allow the pods to stay on the plant and grow large
and tough. Eventually, the plants will begin to dry down. Harvest by picking individual pods or by pulling entire plants out of the ground and off the trellis. Shell by hand, or thresh by flailing or stomping on a tarp. Screens can be helpful in cleaning seeds that have been threshed from the pod. Cleaned and stored properly in a cool, dry location, pea seeds will remain viable for three years or more. If you’re interested in learning more about seed saving and getting resources to be a seed saver yourself, contact queencityseedlibrary@gmail.com with questions about the project.
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