June President’s Message “Dig In”
Develop Skills, Increase Civic Service, and Grow Friendships by Involvement & Nurturing
Can you believe it? We
are having our LAST meeting for the 2009-2010 year. Seems like just
yesterday the board was scrambling to get things organized for the September
meeting! My how time flies! And yes, I think we’ve had fun.
We sure hope to see most of you at our year end luncheon. It will be at
MICHELBOOK Country Club, not at
The luncheon WILL be followed
by a week of sunshine in preparation for our tour/faire. Joanne and Elsie
have done a remarkable job getting MANY new vendors and I’m sure Mike and Gaye
are excited to get the tour going. After so much planning, it is time for
the event! And then the celebration. Be sure to sell or give out
your tickets and get the money to
There’s more fun to come this
summer too with two field trips planned: one to Cistus on Monday, June 11th
and one to the Gathering Together Farm in Philomath and Dancing Oaks Nursery on
Wednesday, August 18th. We plan to start our next
year off with a field trip to the
Just to be sure folks read both this article and the newsletter, the SECRET word is “sunshine”. I’ll be asking for it during the June luncheon. A prize will be awarded to a reader.
A BIG thank you to both Cathy Burdett and Anne Silverthorne as they finish their tenures on the club’s board. Cathy served as President and Past President and is looking forward to lightening her load. She has been active in Master Gardeners, the Garden Club and her yard is on the tour this year. I know she deserves our hearty thanks for all of her efforts!! Anne has been serving as our Vice President for the past two years. Luckily she is not leaving us totally as she will be organizing the field trips for next year. We appreciate her energy and grace. Thanks, ladies!
New
Garden Club Board
Both Patty Sorensen, as President, and Stephanie Janik, as
Treasurer, remain in their current positions for another term.
It's almost here! The 10th
annual Garden Tour and Faire is coming quickly-June 27th. Tickets are
available to sell and we hope you are inviting everyone you know and meet.
We've found the best source is to take tickets with you when you do
your nursery shopping, as garden and plant-lovers are in 1 place, just waiting
to be invited!
That would generate $8,000 for the club's use for outreach.
The Garden Faire is going to be phenomenal this year with some 54+
Vendors, 21 of whom are new ones!
Again, Just tell people! They want to know, so let's share our hard
work and the news to get them there.
We wish to thank all our wonderful team leaders and committees for
working so diligently to make this year's event “The Biggest and the Best”!
The Garden Club members who've so graciously offered their beautiful
gardens, are sincerely thanked and appreciated. It's an honor to feature Garden
club Gardens to commemorate our 10th year! Thank you Cathy, Cindy, Adrienne,
Margaret and Jean!
We'll see you in the garden!
Pre-tour Event, Saturday, June 26th - Meet at 9:30 at the
After Tour/Faire Celebration Don't forget to join us for a no host dinner/celebration at
Golden Valley Brew Pub after the tour/faire on the 27th at
6:00.
Mike & Gaye Stewart, Event
Co-Chairs
FAIRE
NEWS
Ladies - Tell your sisters, your brothers, your
neighbors and your Mother, and bend the ear of everyone you come across in
town!!! This is THE biggest
Garden Faire we've ever had - packed with 60 outstanding vendors
that you won't want to miss! There is everything from gorgeous,
whimsical, awesome, humorous, and practical to hard-to-find. So, raid
your piggy banks and "mad money" and come on down! Remember -
without buyers, we can't keep vendors.
Joanne
DeWitt and Elsie Carpenter Faire C0-Chairs
June 21, 2010 – Lunch/Installation
Meeting
11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
Michelbook Country Club
BBQ buffet luncheon. Cost is $17 prepaid. We’ll be enjoying a short
business meeting, a GREAT lunch with friends and a program with LIVE birds!!! Prepaid eservations due to Stephanie Janik by
June 15th.
SPEAKER - KAREN HOYT
Karen's talk will be on the
benefits and drawbacks of birds in the garden. She will also discuss the
use of pesticides and introducing ways to attract birds to the garden. Karen will bring two types of raptor;
identity to be determined. She will show
outside of the Michelbook building.
Don't forget to bring a Flower to the June luncheon. This is one way to share your
garden flowers with all the members. A casual judging will take place
with ribbons!!! And the arrangements will be raffled off to go home with
lucky meeting attendees. Remember to put your arrangement in a container
that you don’t need back. Last year Barbara’s were incredible!!! I
look forward to seeing your creativity and a sampling of what you have in your
yards that has managed to bloom with this strange late Spring weather.
Mosaic Stepping
Stone, Saturday, June 5, Jean Lierman’s house 9:30-12
Time for us to do our mosaic stepping stones again.
These have been very popular with our members for the past several years. The
cost will be $30 and must be prepaid.
If you would rather do a bird bath, the cost is $75.00 if
you do all the work/gluing etc. She'll take it home and grout it. They are
really pretty when finished. Prepaid eservations
due by June 3 to Jean.
Budget
Meeting Input
A preliminary
2010-2011 budget meeting is being held on Monday,
June 7th (Please note the date change from the May agenda to
JUNE 7th) at 10 AM at Patty Sorensen’s house. ALL
members are invited to attend. We appreciate any input we receive!
The regular board meeting will follow. The board is going to bring a
budget request for the expenses that will occur in July-October to the June
meeting rather than waiting until the September meeting to get an OK for money
we will have already spent. At the September meeting we will vote on the
full 2010-2011 budget. Plans can’t be made until we know how much we make
from this year’s tour and someone volunteers for the leadership role for next
year’s tour. Without leadership, we won’t be able to have a tour thus
impacting our community activity donations. I’ve had one person volunteer
who would co-chair with someone else who has computer skills. That means
we are part-way there!!???
The McMinnville Garden Club will be celebrating
National Garden Week by providing the Public Library with Flower
Arrangements. Start looking for a vase that you don’t need to take home; fill
it with your artistic display of flowers and deliver to the Public Library
between 9-11. The library is closed to the public on Mondays but you can
deliver them to the service entry across from the book drop. There will
be employees inside to take them. Share your visions! AND help us
celebrate National Garden Week.
Cistus Nursery Field Trip, June
11
Cistus
Nursery is a retail micro-nursery located on scenic
Meet at the
June 19th, Saturday, from
11:00-5:00.
Stacey Lynn's Farm, and
August 18 - Gathering Together
Farm Field Trip/Lunch, & Dancing Oaks Nursery?
****PLEASE NOTE THE DATE CHANGE. They are not open on Mondays!
We would like to make lunch reservations so please call or
email Patty pdsorensen@comcast.net by August 10 if you plan to go on this
one! Gathering Together Farm is a
project in certified organic vegetable and fruit production began in 1987.
Their home base is just south of
If there is time and interest, we will stop at Dancing Oaks Nursery on the way home. They have an INCREDIBLE wealth of healthy plants from around the world and a beautiful display garden. http://www.dancingoaks.com/
September 20, 8:30 at
The official board meeting will be the Monday prior, September 13, at 10 AM at Stephanie Janik’s. We will be presenting the budget for a vote at the September meeting. Speaker to be announced later.
Penny Pines Quilt Hanging Raffle
Beryl (the maker) and
Patty (the winner)
Great job Beryl and congrats to Patty
BAD
Bug!!! - BAD Bug!!!
Since I wrote about good bugs last month, bad bugs should
have equal billing. However, it seems
like there are so many more bad bugs than good ones! Some of the more common ones include:
Spider
Mites – Minute, 8-legged, 1/50” mites with fine hairs on body in
colors of red, pale green or yellow.
Most, but not all, spin fine webs.
They suck the juices from cells on the undersides of leaves. Early damage appears as yellow specked areas
on leaf undersides. Later, leaves are
bronzed or turn yellow or white with brown edges and webs may cover the
leaves. The mites overwinter in garden
debris and emerge in early spring. My
experience has been that stressed plants that don’t get enough water are prone
to spider mites. If you catch them
early, you can spray them with water or insecticidal soap. Since I don’t seem to notice them early
enough (who can see these very teeny insects), my plants just croak!
Aphids
–
Pear shaped, 1/32” – 1/8” insects with two short tubes projecting backward from
the abdomen with long antennae. They can
be green, pink, black, dusty grey, or with white fluffy coating with or without
wings. Aphids suck the sap from plants
causing leaf, bud and flower distortion and secrete sticky honeydew that supports
growth of sooty mold. Their feeding on
the plants can spread viral diseases.
Eggs overwinter on woody stems, hatching in spring into stem females,
which can give birth continuously to live nymphs without having to mate. The stem females mature in 1-2 weeks. In the fall, males and normal females are
born; these mate to produce overwintering eggs.
No wonder when you see a couple of aphids one day, the next day there
will be hundreds! Spray with a strong
stream of water to knock them off or use insecticidal spray. You can also squash them with your fingers,
wearing gloves of course.
Cutworms
– Adults
are brown or grey moths (1-1/2” wingspan).
Larvae are fat, greasy-looking, grey or dull brown 1”-2” caterpillars
with shiny heads. At night caterpillars
feed on stems of plants near the soil line, severing them or completely
consuming small seedlings. During the
day they rest below the soil surface, curled beside plant stems. Put collars made of paper, cardboard or
plastic around the stems at planting, pushing collars into the soil until half
of collar is below soil level. If
transplants are damaged, dig around base and destroy the hiding larvae. Also to avoid damage, set the transplants out
later in the season.
Library Plant Cleanup Crew
Cindy, Joanne, Elsie, Patty, Amy GOOD JOB!!!!
Hospitality THANKS
A Special Thanks to Anita and Les for their monthly work organizing our meeting treats. AND
thanks to those who shared their treats with us. They were enjoyed by
all!
MOTIONS
MADE AT LAST MEETING:
Cathy
Burdett announced the slate of officers are 2010-2011. They are:
President
- Patty Sorensen; Vice President - Beryl Anderson; Treasurer - Stephanie Janik;
and, Secretary - Cindy Flake. Mary Jo
Capps moved that a unanimous ballot be cast the these officers. The motion was seconded and passed.
The
Master Gardeners requested a donation to build a new shed at the
Fairgrounds. Mary Jo Capps moved that
the Club donate $50 and then pass the hat if members wished to donate
additional funds. The motion was
seconded and passed.
Internet Links:
Pioneer District Newsletter
http://gardencentral.org/oregon/pioneerdistrictnewsletter/
State
website
http://oregongardenclubs.org/default.htm
June links:
Working with Clay Soil
http://www.bachmans.com/Garden-Care/divHomePage.html?cnb=GardenCare&categoryCode=02&pageIndex=_pageIndexToken_workingWithClaySoil
June
Garden Tasks http://blog.oregonlive.com/homesandgardens/2009/06/june_garden_planner.html
Caring for Outdoor Furniture http://www.outdoorfurnituremarket.com/caring-for-outdoor-furniture
How to Clean Your Bird Baths
http://www.howtocleanstuff.net/outdoors/how-to-clean-a-bird-bath/