Washington Gardener Enews August 2014

ENEWSLETTER

AUGUST 2014

Welcome to the Washington Gardener Enewsletter!

This enewsletter is the sister publication of Washington Gardener Magazine. Both the print magazine and online enewsletter share the same mission and focus — helping DC-MD-VA region gardens grow — but our content is different. In this monthly enewsletter, we address timely seasonal topics and projects; post local garden events; and, a monthly list of what you can be doing now in your garden.

We encourage you to subscribe to Washington Gardener Magazine as well for indepth articles, inspirational photos, and great garden resources for the Washington DC area gardener.

IMPORTANT NOTE: This enewsletter is only sent out as a PDF via email to current subscribers. Without your support, we cannot continue publishing this enewsletter nor Washington Gardener Magazine! Our magazine subscription information is on page 7 of this enewsletter.

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Inside This Enews Issue • Back Issue Sale • August-Sept To-Do List • Magazine Excerpt: Eastern Yellow Jackets • Latest Blog Links • Local Garden Events Listings • Support the Garden Media Before it is GONE! • New ‘Velour’ Wave Petunias • Reader Contest to Win Passes to the Morris Arboretum

September 2014

The Washington Gardener Magazine is going through a metamorphosis and we will announce the format and frequency changes soon. The September 2014 issue cover story is on Gardening with Bees.

You’ll also find in this issue: • Groundcherry Growing Tips • Daytrip to Winterthur • Photo Contest Winners • Garden Tour Season Round-up • Book Reviews • Native Plant Profile • Garden Tips and Tricks • Bonsai Club Profile • Battling Wasps • And much, much more...

To subscribe, see the page 7 of this newsletter for a form to mail in or go to www.washingtongardener. com/index_files/subscribe.htm and use our PayPal credit card link.

Reader Contest

For our August 2014 Washington Gardener Reader Contest, Washington Gardener is giving passes to the Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennslyvania (www.morrisarboretum.org).

Spend time with family and friends exploring the Arboretum’s 92-acre lush and colorful gardens just outside of Philadelphia, PA. Discover your favorite garden spaces and learn from 12,000 labeled plants, trees and flowers.

See the forest from a new perspective from 50 feet up in the treetops on the Out on a Limb canopy walk, part of the Arboretum-wide interactive Tree Adventure exhibit.

To enter to win one of three sets of passes for two, send an email to: WashingtonGardener@rcn.com by 5:00pm on August 31 with “Morris Arb” in the subject line and in the body of the email, please also include your full name and mailing address. Tell us: “I knew it is Autumn in my garden when...” The pass winners will be announced and notified on September 1.

Quick Links to Washington Gardener Blog Posts

• Tomato Taste 2014 Results: Sun Sugar Reigns Supreme • Garden Writers Get HAPPY! • Wild Petunia: Native Groundcover • Naked Ladies: You Can Grow That!

See more Washington Gardener blog posts at WashingtonGardener.Blogspot.com.

August Garden To-Do List

New Plant Spotlight Easy Wave™ Burgundy Velour

The new Easy Wave® Velour collection of spreading petunias have a neverbefore-seen velvety TEXTURE that gardeners will go nuts for! The fast-growing plants bloom freely all season in landscapes and containers without cutting back, and tolerate both heat and cooler conditions very well. Flower-filled plants grow a little more mounded than original Wave, with a more controlled spread. They come in Red Velour, Berry Velour, and Burgundy Velour.

Blooming Season: Spring, Late Spring, Summer, Late Summer Plant Habit: Mounded, Spreading Water: Medium Fertilize: Once a week Spacing: 10-15” (25.4-38.1cm) Height: 6-12” (15.2-30.5cm) Width: 30-39” (76.2-99.1cm) Exposure: Sun Ideas & Tips: Avoid wet foliage going into night. Keep well fed for best performance. Occasional cut back will rejuvenate plants.

More Details: Wave-Rave.com

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Here is our comprehensive garden task list for gardens in the greater DC metro region for August 16-September 15. Your suggestions and additions to this list are most welcome: • It is harvest time and also a good time to start taking stock if what worked well for you this season and what didn’t.

• Buy raspberries and peaches at a local pick-your-own farm or visit a local farmer’s market.

• Let the lawn go dormant for now, it will green back up in the coming rains.

• Check your local garden center for end-of-summer bargains.

• If your pond water gets low from prolonged drought, top it off with tap water and add a dechlorinator according to package instructions.

• Wash out birdbaths weekly with diluted bleach solution.

• Water thoroughly especially if you receive no rain for more than 5-7 days.

• Turn your compost pile weekly and don’t let it dry out.

• Start shopping for spring bulbs.

• Divide and cut back bearded iris and peonies.

• Check your pond pump for debris and clean it out every few weeks.

• Watch for slug damage and set out traps or Sluggo bait.

• Check for mosquito breeding grounds. Dump out any water that sits stagnant for more than three days.

• Weed.

• Cut back any leggy Asters or Mums.

• Take garden photos and make notes in your garden journal.

• Start collecting plant seeds for next year and for trading.

• As the days get cooler, plant hardy mums.

• Prune evergreens to get in shape for fall/winter.

• Hand pick or cut out any bagworm cocoons.

• Harvest your herbs often and keep them trimmed back to encourage leafy growth.

Dry them indoors, if you can’t use them right away.

• Bring Christmas cactus and Poinsettias indoors if you took them out for the summer in preparation for holiday blooming. Fertilize them and put them in a place where they’ll get just 10 hours bright light per day.

• Inspect for powdery mildew. If seen, prune back perennials to create needed circulation. Discard properly (i.e. not in your compost bin).

• Clean your hummingbird feeders and add new sugar-water every three days.

• Renew your container plantings which may be looking a bit ragged at this point.

Pinch back overgrown plants. Pull out any spent ones and pop in some substitute annuals or mums. Keep them well-watered and add a little liquid fertilizer every few weeks to keep them going through early autumn.

• Switch your deer deterrent spray.

• Start seeds for fall annuals such as pansy, calendula, and kale.

• Plant fall crops such as Chinese cabbage, lettuce, radish, mustard, broccoli, kohlrabi, cauliflower, turnips, and beets.

• Order garlic, onions, and shallots for fall planting.

• Attend a county fair and enter some of your garden bounty.

• Preserve gourds and dry flowers for display in the fall.

• Apply grub control to your lawn.

• Divide hostas and daylilies.

• Deadhead Garlic Chives before they go to seed. Makes a nice cut flower.

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Support the Garden Media Before it is GONE

By Kathy Jentz What happened to the “G” in HGTV? Where did all the garden stories in my local newspaper disappear to? How did the garden section of my local book store shrink to just half a shelf?

You know that your daily newspapers and local community weeklies are shrinking, but have you ever pondered why one section – Sports -- never seems to shrink? It is not because it has the most advertising support, nor does it have the broadest appeal. What it does have is a rabid readership base.

And when I say “rabid” I mean that not only do readers follow every story both online and in paper form, but they engage with that content. They post comments and go back and read what others write, then comment again. They tweet out links and pass them along on Facebook. They are voracious for any little tiny scrap of new information about their favorite teams and player. Why doesn’t gardening have that same kind of enthusiastic fan base?

~ Write letters to the editor letting them know you read the garden content and would like to see more of it -- be specific and effusive. ~ Thank the advertisers that do support garden publications and let them know you appreciate their investment by purchasing their products and services. ~ When you share a garden story via email or social media, NEVER copy more than the headline and the first sentence along with a link back to where it is originally published. Copying and pasting the entire story will not to let the publishers and other decision-makers know what is being read and passed along. They need to see the number of online views of the original article to measure its reach. ~ Share links to gardening stories online via Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, etc. ~ Hit “like” every time you read an online garden article or blog post .

Well, actually it does. Gardening is by far the most popular USA pastime. In 2013, almost 108 million Americans classified themselves as gardeners. Alas though, it is also a primarily solitary pursuit with each in his or her own garden puttering and weeding in their own little world. Some join garden clubs or volunteer at local public gardens, sure, but the vast majority do not. They may read the garden column in their local daily and they may nod in agreement or chuckle in amusement, but rarely does it move them to action.

Even the touchy subjects of deer and native plants barely get a rise out of even the most passionate home gardener.

Sure we complain to ourselves when the daily paper cuts the home and garden section to one thin column or when our local PBS station cancels our favorite garden show, but do we know that we are actually causing the demise of these worthy garden communication vehicles by our inaction?

What YOU can do: ~ Subscribe to both print and online gardening publications and to other publications that contain garden-related content. Give gift subscriptions to everyone you know who may have even a dot of gardening passion within them.

~ Comment on garden articles. Even if you read the article in print, go to the publication’s web site, blog, or Facebook page and let them know you read it. Your comment can be as simple as, “Keep up the good work.” ~ Get passionate. When a neighbor at the annual block party compliments your zinnias, offer to share seeds and tell them about the latest gardening book you are reading. If a youngster within your sphere of influence shows the least interest in plants, take them under your wing. At your work place, share your garden’s bounty and tell people how they can grow their own. Don’t accept the “I don’t have a green thumb” excuse – veteran gardeners know that we have all killed many plants on our way to gardening success! ~ Print this article (yes, you have my permission!) in your garden club newsletters, community garden communications, public garden publications, master gardener group lists, etc.

About the Author Kathy Jentz is editor/publisher of Washington Gardener Magazine (www.washingtongardener.com), which is all about local garden in the greater Washington, DC region.

She is also a garden writer for various other publications including Pathways Magazine, Mid-Atlantic Grower, and the Takoma Voice.

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TOP AREA GARDENING EVENTS DC-Area Gardening Calendar ~ Upcoming Events ~ August 16-September 15, 2014 • Monday, August 25, 6:30-8pm or Wednesday, August 27, 6:30-8pm Introduction to the Prince William County Master Gardener Program Find out about becoming a Master Gardener Volunteer with Virginia Cooperative Extension. Please plan to attend one of the information sessions: Monday, August 25 - 6:30-8 pm - Development Services Building Room 202 A & B - 5 County Complex Court, Prince William, 22192 or Wednesday, August 27 - 6:30-8 pm - McCoy Room at Sudley North Government Building 7987 Ashton Avenue, Manassas 20109 Free, but registration is necessary please call 703-792-7747 or email master_gardener@pwcgov.org.

• Sunday, August 31, 2:00-4:00pm Garden Photo Show Opening Reception You are invited to view the winning images of the 8th annual Washington Gardener Photo Contest at an art show at Meadowlark Botanical Gardens in Vienna, VA. All 17 stunning photos were taken in DC-area gardens. Both inspirational and educational, this show represents the best of garden photography in the greater DC metropolitan region.

The photo show reception is Sunday, August 31 from 2:00-4:00pm at the Meadowlark Visitor Center’s lobby. The opening reception is open to the public and is free to attend. You may also come by and view the photos any time during the normal Visitor Center hours (10am-7pm daily). The photo show runs through October 1.

• Saturday, September 6, 9:00am12noon Weeds, Soil Health and Cover Crops Learn from VCE Staff & Master Gardener Volunteers how to improve your soil, identify weeds and use cover crops effectively. Taught at St. Benedict Monastery, 9535 Linton Hall Road, Bristow, VA 20136. All programs are free, but registration is requested call 703-792-7747 or email master_ gardener@pwcgov.org.

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Montgomery Parks Second Annual Pawpaw Festival It’s time to get your paws on some pawpaws! Meadowside Nature Center will be celebrating this delightful native fruit with music, storytelling, crafts, games, raptor talks, expert advice on pawpaw cultivation, and most importantly...a pawpaw tasting station. This year’s festival will feature pawpaw fruit for purchase! No registration required.

All participants must pay. Fee: $5.

Meadowside Nature Center 5100 Meadowside Lane Rockville, MD 20855.

• Thursday, September 11, 6:30-8pm Wild Food: “Find Dining” off the Eaten Path Lecture Ready to go wild? Join the country’s leading philosoforager as he uncovers the Garden of Eden all around us. Alan Muskat is the author of Wild Mushrooms: A Taste of Enchantment, founder of No Taste Like Home and The Afikomen Project. Wild food is the ultimate local, natural food. Ideal for people and the planet, it is more healthful, sustainable, and flavorful than its garden variety descendants. This is one place where you get what you don’t pay for. Simply go “out to eat” and take your pick! Discover how easy it is to “take in the landscape.” We’ll meet a dozen denizens of your yarden and learn seven reasons to make friends in low places. It’s time to eat the neighbors!

Location: Conservatory Classroom at the US Botanic Garden on the National Mall. Cost: FREE. Pre-registration is required. See more at: http://usbg. gov/events/2014/08/08/wild-foodfind-dining-eaten-path-lecture#sthash. yebmxpxs.dpuf.

• Thursday, September 11, Cultural Connections: The Chesapeake ~ Smithsonian’s Food in the Garden Series The Chesapeake Bay, described as “an immense protein factory” by Baltimore writer H.L. Mencken, long supported an abundance of oysters, crabs, clams, and many species of finfish. These productive waters along with the bay’s extensive network of navigable tributaries shaped the region’s foodways.

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Through trade, transportation, and communication the region’s natural bounties were brought together with new people, foods, and flavors from around the globe, particularly Africa, the Caribbean, England, and Europe. How did these cultural connections come together in the Chesapeake region and how did they find expression in gardens, landscapes, communities, kitchens, and around the region’s tables? The session will explore the 1812 period as well as the long-term impact of these dynamic connections on the bay’s marine environment and resources.

Panelists: Mollie Ridout, Director of Horticulture for Historic Annapolis Foundation; Psyche Williams-Forson, Associate Professor of American Studies at University of Maryland, and Denise Breitburg, marine ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

In the Marketplace: Culinary historian Pat Reber gives historic cooking tool and ingredient demonstrations, Steve Bashore of the historic Mount Vernon Distillery gives distilling demonstrations, Flying Dog Brewery, experience Dr. Ralph E. Eshelman as War of 1812 Commodore Joshua Barney, and learn about what’s blooming in the Garden from Smithsonian Gardens – with McMahon’s The American Gardener’s Calendar from the Smithsonian Botany Library. Tickets: $30 each, $100 for the series. Register: http://americanhistory. si.edu/events.

• Friday, September 12, 1:00-3:00pm Sustainable Gardening Practices From mowing the lawn to what to do with all of those autumn leaves, learn the basics of sustainable garden maintenance. Timing and techniques for pruning, watering, weeding, fertilizing, and planting are covered. Take home practical information you can use right away. Gain the knowledge to care for your landscape in a way that is better for you and the environment. Fee: $30 (Earn one DNLA Certified Nursery Professional credit). Location: Mt. Cuba Center, 3120 Barley Mill Road, Hockessin, DE. Class instructor Kathleen Salisbury is an experienced and awardwinning horticulture educator, formerly

TOP AREA GARDENING EVENTS DC-Area Gardening Calendar ~ Upcoming Events ~ August 16-September 15, 2014 with the New York Botanical Garden.

She is co-owner of DeVosBury Designs, an ecological design and horticulture consulting firm.

• Friday-Saturday, , September 12-13 8th annual Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello Celebrate the harvest and the legacy of revolutionary gardener Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson, America’s “founding foodie,” championed vegetable cuisine, plant experimentation and sustainable agriculture. Taste a bounty of heirloom fruits and vegetables and learn about organic gardening and seed-saving during this fun, affordable, family-friendly festival — unlike any other — held on the breathtaking West Lawn of Jefferson’s Monticello. For details and to register, visit: http://heritageharvestfestival.com/.

• Saturday, September 13, 10am-2pm Friends of Brookside Gardens Annual Plant Sale Hard-to-find perennials, seasonal appeal plants, native plants, etc. Note that this year the sale has been moved to Brookside Gardens’ Service Hill - follow signs on Glenallan Ave, Wheaton, MD. From 8-10 am FOBG members only get in early and receive a 10% discount.

Not a FOBG member? Join at the sale!

For more information and the plant list, visit www.friendsofbrooksidegardens. org.

• Saturday, September 13, 9 am-3 pm Fall Garden Day: A Plant Sale and More Fall is a great time to plant, and Green Spring Gardens is hosting numerous local plant vendors to satisfy your gardening needs. A silent auction, bake sale, live music and food add to the festivities! Come support one of Virginia’s most innovative public gardens. FREE admission. For information, go to www. fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/greenspring.

• September 13 & 20 (2-session program), 10am-12noon each day Herbarium Workshop Preserve plants for posterity! The art and science of pressing, mounting,

and labeling plants has been the basis of botany for centuries and continues today. Once preserved, the samples are filed in an herbarium to provide reference for scientists worldwide. The specimens can also be framed to create a “botanically correct” way to display your favorite plants. US National Arboretum botanist Dr. Robert Webster leads this two-session, hands-on workshop which includes a behind-the-scenes tour of the National Arboretum’s 650,000+ specimen herbarium, plus all materials and instruction for you to create five pressed specimens to take home. ~ Session 1, September 13: Tour the herbarium, collect and choose plant samples to preserve, learn to use the press and the drier. ~ Session 2, September 20: Mount the samples; create and attach botanically accurate labels. Take home and enjoy!

(Frame on your own.) Fee: $39 ($31 FONA) Registration required. Meet in the Visitor Center. Register at: http:// www.usna.usda.gov/Education/events. html.

SAVE THE DATE: • Friday, September 19, 5-8pm Behnke’s 3rd Annual Gardeners’ Night Out An evening just for gardeners! Enjoy demonstrations and gather information while enjoying fine music by Susan Jones of Violin Dreams and great food.

Old Line, Fine Wine & Bistro will also be back hosting a FREE wine tasting. While here get a sneak peak at our 2014 Christmas Shop. Location: Behnke Nurseries in Beltsville, MD • Saturday, September 27, 9am-3pm The Living Garden Spaces Symposium Want a thriving garden space that is wildlife-friendly, sustainable and beautiful? Come discover lovely native plants that support native ecosystems, and learn how to use them in beautiful combinations. Learn about attracting native, beneficial insects and get tips to better manage your wildlife visitors. $75/person. (Call ahead for vegetarian lunch option.) Speakers: Rick Darke, Betsy Washington, Kathy Jentz, Alan Ford &

Laura Beaty. Books sale and signing of the Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Landscape.

Register on-line at www.fairfaxcounty. gov/parks/greenspring or call 703-6425173.

• Thursday, October 16, 6:30-8:00pm Garden Book Club Fall Meeting For our final 2014 selection of the Washington Gardener Magazine Book Club, we will be reading: The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert.

We will meet at the La Madeleine at 8435 Georgia Avenue in downtown Silver Spring, MD. (Please plan to purchase some food and drinks while there, since we will not be paying them for this meeting space.) The book club meetings are FREE and open to anyone who would like to attend.

Please RSVP to “WG Book Club” at WashingtonGardener@rcn.com. I will be limiting attendance to 20. If you need to cancel, let me know ASAP so we can give your spot to someone else, should we have a wait-list.

Still More Event Listings

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Event Listing Submissions

To submit an event for this listing, please contact: Wgardenermag@aol. com and put “Event” in the email subject head. Our next deadline is September 12 for the September 15 edition of this enewsletter featuring events taking place from September 16-October 15.

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Magazine Excerpt: Eastern Yellow Jackets by Carol Allen

My love/hate relationship with wasps came to a head several years ago.

My property was still over run with honeysuckle and brambles, so I was doing a lot of basic clearing. I had just invested in a heavy-duty hammer mill that would take the brush and limbs that I fed it and make them into the beginnings of a lovely compost. I even bought a beautifully made, heavy canvas cover that fitted it like a glove and I parked it conveniently next to the compost pile out behind the vegetable garden.

One thing led to another that spring and I did not run it for several weeks. I was out admiring the early summer veggies, when I noticed a steady stream of yellow jackets going through the garden and up under the cover on my hammer mill. Horrors!

They had built a nest in the large central chamber of the machine. There was no way to access it and nothing that I could do about it! I resigned myself with having to live with some very uncomfortable neighbors that summer and their presence brought my clearing efforts to a halt as well.

As the summer moved towards fall, the cooler weather made me anxious to renew my cleanup efforts. I looked forward to the first hard frost, thinking that I would have to wait that long before I would be rid of the yellow jacket nest. Then one morning, my problem was solved! Raccoons got into the nest during the night and tore it apart, eating the insects. ...

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