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Plant Now For A Beautiful Garden Now And In The Future by Melinda Myers Don’t pack away that shovel and trowel. Fall is a great time to plant a few new additions in the landscape. Here are just a few ideas for adding immediate and long term beauty to your garden. Add cool season annuals like pansies, snapdragons, ornamental kale and stocks to brighten the fall garden. Those in milder regions will enjoy them throughout the winter. Consider adding cold hardy pansies. They provide color in the fall garden, survive most winters, and are back blooming in the spring just as the snow melts. Fall is also a good time to plant perennials, trees and shrubs. The soil is warm and the air cooler, so the plants are less stressed and establish more quickly. Select plants suited to the growing conditions and be sure to give them plenty of room to reach their mature size. Plant trees so the root flare, the place where the

roots curve away from the trunk, is even with the soil surface. Dig a hole, the same depth as the rootball, and two to five times wider. Roughen the sides of the hole and backfill with the existing soil. Water thoroughly and spread a two to three inch layer of mulch over the soil surface, keeping the mulch away from the tree trunk. Follow a similar planting procedure for shrubs. Plant these so the crown, the place where the stems meet the roots, is even with the soil surface. And be sure to keep the mulch away from the stems. Plant daffodils, tulips, hyacinths and other bulbs in fall for extra color next spring. Set the bulbs at a depth of two to three times their height deep. Then cover them with soil and sprinkle on a low nitrogen slow release fertilizer, like Milorganite (milorganite.com). This organic nitrogen fertilizer promotes rooting without stimulating fall

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the garden flavor this fall. Simply count the days from planting to the average first fall frost to determine how many growing days are left in your area. Select vegetables that will mature and can be harvested in that amount of time. Leaf lettuce, spinach, mustard greens, radishes and carrots are fast growing, cool weather tolerant vegetables that make great additions to the fall garden and your dinner plate. Get these vegetables off to a good start with a side dressing of low nitrogen fertilizer. Incorporate it into the soil prior to planting or sprinkle a narrow band along the row of plants. This organic nitrogen will provide needed nutrients without damaging the tender seedlings. Extend the harvest season with the help of floating row covers. These fabrics allow air, light and water through while trapping the heat around

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Sunlight stimulates the body’s production of Vitamin D and increases the levels of serotonin in your brain; lower serotonin levels are thought to be associated with depression, lack of energy, elevated appetite and excessive sleepiness. What’s more, if you opt for Energy Star-qualified solar-powered freshair skylights, like those made by Velux America, you can also help improve indoor air quality. These skylights open, providing passive ventilation to allow stale indoor air to escape and fresh air to enter, and they close automatically in case of rain. Skylights can also be good for your financial health. Solar powered skylights, along with solar powered blinds, as well as installation costs, are eligible for a 30 percent federal tax credit. Also, more natural light in your home on a dark winter day can help decrease your need for artificial lighting. And sunshine can help warm the interior of your home and support the work your furnace does to keep the See projects on 8

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walls you want to remove may not necessarily poke through into the basement, as they can be fed from the top of the wall or from other side walls. Electric cables are the least of your problems and are often the easiest thing to relocate. If you want to determine if the walls are load-bearing, you can often do this by poking your head up into the attic if you have a single-story house. If you have traditional roof trusses that span your entire home, there’s a good chance the walls are not load bearing. It’s possible for some trusses to have internal load-bearing points on them, so if you have any doubt at all, take photos of the trusses and visit a truss-fabricating plant to talk with the staff engineer. If you determine the walls are load bearing, the job grows in complexity by a factor of three or more. You’ll have to get a residential structural engineer involved, and this professional will produce a drawing showing what beams and columns need to be installed that will replace the walls. In certain instances it’s possible to hide a beam

up in the ceiling so you don’t have it hanging below your finished ceiling. The advantage of having the beam tucked up in the ceiling is you get one nice flat ceiling through the entire kitchen, dining room and living room space. If you do have to install beams that take the place of the bearing walls, you now have to install columns that support the beams. These can be made from wood or steel. The columns need to transfer the load to the foundation or the soil below. This is not as easy as it seems as it requires you to create a continuous load path from the bottom of the beam all the way to the ground. I don’t feel the average homeowner can do this job. Perhaps the only thing the average homeowner can accomplish is the demolition of the plaster or drywall. But even then, if done wrong, you can harm things inside the wall. This job is best done by a full-service remodeling company. The best in the business have seasoned employees who know how to do the demolition and deal with all the things that need to be relocated.

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