tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5674625823061708332023-11-16T07:49:53.558-08:00The Landscape SupervisorRycke Brown, a professional Natural Gardener since 2000, is now offering supervision of landscape maintenance contractors as the Landscape Supervisor; auditing of properties one might be interested in for landscape maintenance and fire hazard issues as the Landscape Auditor; and home Garden Coaching and gardener supervision as The Natural Gardener. Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.comBlogger136125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-9076781175209689962013-12-21T08:11:00.002-08:002014-01-30T08:53:24.547-08:00Make Room to Use Your Leaves<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiakSIo9P6Fs1mO5KRLXCL6xqqWR70qsbPj_gEgQZx07te2GQ0KAgvWfR6hjflsIgg6t33euVxEDw7WH4NbDxIwsxUwfY_3YyRo_SHVIWR308jpWQTxsFPKIrCldFcX6wd1NgXViBX6Lng/s1600/2013-5-20+misc+photos+015.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiakSIo9P6Fs1mO5KRLXCL6xqqWR70qsbPj_gEgQZx07te2GQ0KAgvWfR6hjflsIgg6t33euVxEDw7WH4NbDxIwsxUwfY_3YyRo_SHVIWR308jpWQTxsFPKIrCldFcX6wd1NgXViBX6Lng/s640/2013-5-20+misc+photos+015.jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"> This yard
was fine bark mulched; it is now covered with blue star creeper, white
thyme; and sweet woodruff; the brown is fresh locust leaves from the tree
above. They cover it through the winter. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Properties
from tiny yards to large parks have trees for shade and beauty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They produce leaves that mostly drop in the
fall, and flowers, fruit and seeds that drop any time of year, depending on the
plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These properties also may have
lawns, shrub borders, paths, pavements, or even unplanted waste areas.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Leaves
and other tree debris must be removed from lawns, lest they kill the grass,
though some can be mulched into the lawn without harming it, with the grass
clippings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have to be removed from
buildings, lest they rot roofs and clog gutters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have to be removed from pavements, lest
they be a slipping danger, and as a matter of order and cleanliness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They should be removed from paths, so they
don’t rot the mulch, fill the gravel, or get tracked indoors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>That
leaves must be removed from some places does not make them trash.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are not waste unless they are wasted by
being hauled to the composter, because one is wasting their unique ability to
stop weeds and feed soil naturally.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Burning them further wastes their potential use as compost mulch that
can be used to stop weeds and feed soil, while polluting the air with the acrid
scent of burning mulch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But even hauling
them to the composter costs money.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Even a thin accidental mulch of soft maple leaves stopped a lot of groundsel from sprouting on the edge of this weedy field.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Leaves
have a truly unique ability to stop weeds because the top few layers dry
quickly, making a poor place for seeds to germinate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All other mulches are seed beds by
comparison, not drying as fast on top and providing holes and cracks that seeds
can settle into and sprout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Fresh wood chips at Dimmick; the county started using them in 2012 on many parking lots.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The second best weed-stopping mulch
is wood chips, which also layer and dry out on the surface, though not as
quickly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are good mulch for paths;
they even clean your shoes, and look nice and bright, freshly spread in
mid-winter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also stay in place
better than leaves, and can be used on steep, narrow parking lot dividers and
berms.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Leaves should, therefore, be used on
beds, shrub borders and unplanted areas to control weeds, which saves the work
of laboriously raking and picking leaves out of the shrubbery. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can be spread anywhere from 2 to 6 inches
thick to control weeds and feed the soil, softening it for easy weeding of
whatever manages to come up through the leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A foot of leaves will grow huge vegetables while they decompose.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">Fine bark, less than a year old, with the leaves "cleaned" out of it. Note the black bark and soil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Many people like the “clean” look of
finely ground or shredded bark, but it cannot stay clean for long, with leaves,
flowers, fruit, and twigs constantly falling from trees and shrubs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Few workers have the patience to clean them
all out anyways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In either case,
scattered bits of organic debris do not look clean or pretty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Plum leaves blend right into 3/4" nugget bark.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The more coarse the mulch, the more
it hides the stuff that falls into it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nugget bark and walk-on fir work for this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leaves are not only the most coarse mulch,
hiding all but the largest debris, but they do a much better job as mulch than
anything else at mulch’s three jobs: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stopping weeds; holding water; and feeding
soil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fine bark mulch has to be renewed
regularly as it decomposes, turns black, and evaporates, which takes money to
buy bark and labor to spread it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leaves
renew themselves every fall and during the year as trees add stuff to the
mulch, nearly all of which is welcome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They just need to be moved from places that they don’t belong to the
soil where they do, which is a lot less work and expense than cleaning them up
and replacing them with bark.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lawns are good places for people and
dogs to play and to have smooth, green open space to look upon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are high maintenance, but their care
seems relatively uncomplicated compared to beds full of shrubs and flowers,
since most of it can be done with machines, like mowers and blowers, which
reduce stoop work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They also need to be
weeded, but using a mulching mower can prevent small-seeded weeds, like
crabgrass, dandelion, and annual rye, from sprouting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Still, if you have a lot of lawn, but not enough places to put your
leaves, you have too much lawn and are doing too much work.</span></b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When beds and borders are maintained with leaf mulch, they are less work
to maintain than lawn by a long shot: no mowing, and little weeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they are generously large enough for the
normal growth of the shrubs therein, little pruning is needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Shrub borders are often built way too
small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two to three feet wide around a
building is common, requiring tight hedging, which is high maintenance and not
as beautiful as the natural shape of the plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If it is, one might reconsider one’s choice of shrub for that spot. </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Hedges have their place for providing
privacy and wind shelter in tight spaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
Sometimes, they provide it to the wrong people; they are security problem. </span>But many shrubs are hedged simply because they outgrew their space.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Limb them up or cut them to the ground and either let them
re-grow naturally or replace them with something that will fit the space better
as it grows, and you will save a lot of work and have beautiful shrubs, instead
of ugly hedges. Limbing up is preferable for trees.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">A line-of-motion path, with nugget bark and japanese maple leaf mulch, and a Hinoki cypress starting to get in the way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The natural line of motion for people
and dogs to go around a building is a smooth curve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The edge of the bed should come out to that
natural walking line, if space allows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any
lawn occupying that natural bed space can be mulched heavily with leaves and
the grass weeded out as it comes through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A border of good-size rocks can contain the leaves and provide a solid
edge for a look of permanence.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDdV9uM1ei82tUy0sknkNXqeWwOtS7fD2K_2Jokg8ncy0iVTESDlipBPxmquvtunFNYJ3RuImO_wSkmpQ6Us5yq1DpKlviavXJiTQdlBTwu04fIdmUnbQ3uzfgcaoKlJ2KotNFrjegaB4/s1600/2014-12-6+misc+020.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDdV9uM1ei82tUy0sknkNXqeWwOtS7fD2K_2Jokg8ncy0iVTESDlipBPxmquvtunFNYJ3RuImO_wSkmpQ6Us5yq1DpKlviavXJiTQdlBTwu04fIdmUnbQ3uzfgcaoKlJ2KotNFrjegaB4/s640/2014-12-6+misc+020.jpg" height="480" width="640" /></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lawn with a curved border, and line of motion bed, partially mulched with leaves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lawns can be shrunk to places most
easily mowed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steeper slopes and sharp
angles can be mulched with 6 inches of leaves and planted to ground covers, shrubs,
and perennials.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Make room for your leaves in your
landscape by shrinking lawns and expanding borders, and you will do less
mowing, need less weeding and pruning, and not be wasting work, taking leaves
out of where they do the most good and are hardest to remove.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t need to get rid of leaves, just
rearrange them to where they will do their natural job of stopping weeds and
feeding soil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rycke Brown,
Natural Gardener<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>541-955-9040<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rycke@gardener.com</span></span></div>
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is easy, if you do it naturally.</span></i></b></span></div>
<br />Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-91784263828931200762013-12-04T09:01:00.001-08:002013-12-06T07:00:27.798-08:00Using Leaves Efficiently For Mulch<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Leaves
are the cheapest and most effective mulch for weed control, when enough of them
are used. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This natural gardener has been
using them professionally on clients’ yards for 13 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All other mulches are seed beds by
comparison. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leaves feed the soil and
thus the plants; soften it for easy weeding; and can stop sprouting of most
small seeds, just by keeping the sun off them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As long as leaves stick around, they stop germination of seeds that land
on top of them, because the top few layers dry out quickly and don’t allow
seeds on top to sprout.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">One
can smother nearly any annual weed, and many small perennials, with enough
leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But to be efficient with a
client’s money, a professional gardener must figure out the least that it takes
to do the job effectively when one has to bring them in from other places.</span></div>
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is no need to shred leaves to use them for mulch in most situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whole leaves are better for blocking weeds,
but leaves can be mowed into a lawn, and shredded leaves will stay in place
better where the wind would otherwise blow them around.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Only
very large trees drop enough leaves beneath them to stop larger annual grass
seeds like cheat and foxtails, but taking them from pavements, roofs, lawns,
paths, and neighbors with too many and spreading them more thickly in beds and
borders can smother grass seeds and young weeds while encouraging larger
established perennials.</span></div>
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are three basic classes of leaves as mulch: soft leaves; tough broad leaves;
and tough conifers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Black walnut is a
soft leaf in a class of its own, containing a pre-emergent herbicide, juglone,
that stops smaller seeds all summer, though their leaves are eaten before
winter is over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-size: small;">Red maple leaves, blown onto a weed field from fine bark. Not thick, but still smothering groundsel seeds. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Although
soft leaves may be eaten by soil life before summer is over, and sometimes
before fall or winter is over, they can have great smothering ability until
they are eaten.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many tend to lie flat over
seedy soil and stop spring weeds like groundsel and bitter cress, even without
extra leaves piled on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Piling them 6
inches or more deep will preserve the top layers of leaves over the entire
season, as they quickly dry out on top while the worms happily eat the damp
bottom leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that’s a lot of
leaves unless one wants to grow vegetables.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In that case, a foot is even better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <span style="font-size: small;">Oak leaf mulch under a large oak</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Hard
leaves, like oak and sweet gum, stick around the entire season, but tend to be
stiff and fluffy, and thus allow seeds to grow through them to the light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, it usually takes more than naturally
falls under the tree to stop many weeds, particularly annual grasses with larger
seeds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Merely covering the ground is
insufficient, especially with weeds already growing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Pine
and true cedar needles are good for covering other leaves to hold them in place
and give a consistent, quiet look to one’s mulch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are also good for covering compost
spread on top of soil or leaves to aid seed germination, when spread just thick
enough to hide the compost seed bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Piled over an inch deep, they stop germination as well as other leaves,
as they pack down fairly tight.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They can
be used for path cover, but pine are rather slick and not suitable for slopes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Flat or non-needle conifer leaves, like fir,
incense cedar, redwood, and sequoia, are soft and decompose as fast as other
soft leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; line-height: 115%;"> Pine needles spread as mulch. </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">They are much used in the South, going by HGTV.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Six inches to a foot of leaves can
grow big food plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But piling one
kind of leaf too deep can occasionally result in slow decomposition and slow growth
of plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A mixture of several kinds of
leaves has more variety for the soil life to eat, more nutrition, and allows
water to move down through the stack more efficiently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is important to spread them in layers and
keep the surface relatively flat, so the water doesn’t just run off the top or
around bundles of leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>One can grow garden seeds in a thick
bed of leaves if one spreads an inch of compost on top of the leaves and plants
into and on it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This even works on top
of black walnut leaves and soil, keeping the seeds separated from the juglone
long enough to sprout.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Compost also
helps decompose leaves more quickly for early spring growth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it is not necessary for planting large
seeds, like beans, corn, and squash, into the leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poke them in to where you can feel moisture
for them to sprout in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>But for non-food-growing areas, a
mulch of leaves with several thin layers, each just thick enough to hide what
is beneath, can provide maximum weed control with minimal leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Use soft leaves on the bottom to smother and
physically block seeds and small plants from growing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hard broad leaves can be spread on top of
those to keep the sun off the soil all summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pine needles go on top to keep the leaves in place and give a
consistent, calming look to the landscape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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work well for mulching beds and borders, but weeds in paths have to be
controlled, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just about any material
one puts on a path will sooner or later become a seedbed for whatever lands on
it, except for pavement, and even there, they will grow in the cracks and
holes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Organic path mulches must be
renewed every year or so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Gravel is a
headache once it fills with seeds and dirt.</span></div>
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4 x 8 sand, surrounding beds.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">But
a half-inch of 4 x 8 sand, which is river sand screened ¼-1/8 inch, can let you
defeat the weeds by bringing them up right away, so you can slide a scuffle
hoe, AKA hula hoe, underneath their crowns and pull or cut them off their
roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rake out the weeds, and your path
is cleared without bending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">The
key to how 4 x 8 sand works is that, when particles of different sizes are
disturbed, the smaller sift to the bottom and the larger end up on top.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dirt and small seeds on the path are sent by
hoeing and raking to the bottom, and rocks and sticks larger than the sand
float to the top where they can be raked out or picked up and thrown in the
bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Quarter-inch rocks dominate the
top, and don’t stick to shoes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
seeds sprout, their crowns form at the top of the sand, so they are easily cut off
their roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Very young plants whose
crowns are cut off their roots are killed, as they have no food in their roots.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gardening
is easy, if you do it naturally.</span></i></b></div>
Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-31683137160144405672013-11-05T07:00:00.001-08:002013-11-05T07:00:27.496-08:00Paying For Free Leaf Pickup<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Jo Gro,
our city’s composting operation, will soon be under the management of Republic
Waste Services, minus the sewage bio solids that it was originally started to
make use of.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those will be hauled by
Republic to Dry Creek Landfill to make methane for electricity generation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The city will be running Jo Gro long enough
to decompose the rest of their bio solids, and then lease the operation to
Republic, who will run it as a regular composting service.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> One might
expect “free” leaf pickup to go away, since it was instituted to provide
material for Jo Gro to help decompose those bio solids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But leaves will be picked up by Republic and
Southern Oregon Sanitation from the curb for free as part of their franchise
agreements with the City, as they always have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The only difference is that they will be free to take them to any
DEQ-approved composter, to seek the best price for dumping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Such
“free” leaf hauling was part of the subsidy for Jo Gro, but wasn’t counted as
part of it, because it was being paid for, not by the city, but by the
residents as part of the cost of our waste hauling service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jo Gro will apparently continue to be subsidized
by hauling leaves for free, but Republic will be the single composter to
benefit, while Southern Oregon Compost will have to compete without such a
subsidy, against a composter who doesn’t use biosolids anymore.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The city
does not like to compete with private business, and presumably does not want
their monopoly franchisees to compete unfairly with other businesses as
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are other small businessmen,
gardeners and landscape maintainers, who would haul yard waste for residents for
a small fee, as well as contractors like Aspire, whom the waste services use to
haul leaves and trimmings now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Republic
even has its own yard waste service that more people would buy if the free
service stopped.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Those who
haul their own trash to the transfer station don’t pay for free leaf pickup,
but they get their leaves picked up if they put them on the curb.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone who pays for regular trash service
must pay for leaf pickup as well, whether they use it or not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This gardener uses leaves for mulch and picks
up leaves from the curb for her customers, using them to stop weeds, so we have
to pay for a service we don’t use and beat that service to the leaves we need.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pine needles are much used in the Southeast for mulch</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Leaves are
not waste and should not be wasted on compost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Before Jo Gro existed, the city encouraged the use of leaves as
mulch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Leaves are still the best mulch
for stopping weeds, and we should use them for mulch, not compost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The City should stop this franchisee subsidy
of a single composter at the expense of landscape maintenance, those who do it,
and our customers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Kids play
in a pile of leaves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so common,
it’s a cliché in the funny papers every fall.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So normal that a dad was taking pictures of his daughters playing in
one, without thinking about the fact that they were playing in the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So obvious that an 18-year old, still a kid
but driving with her brothers, drove through that pile, not thinking about what
might be in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She felt a bump,
probably thought she ran over a big stick, and drove the few blocks home before
having her brother check for damage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/index.ssf/2013/10/forest_grove_fatal_crash_arres.html" target="_blank">
</a></span><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/forest-grove/index.ssf/2013/10/forest_grove_fatal_crash_arres.html" target="_blank">This happened last week in Forest Grove on October 20<sup>th</sup>.</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Everyone
was careless in this accident: the kids for playing in the street; their father
for letting them; the girl for driving over the leaves; but first and most of
all, the school district for leaving a pile of leaves in the street, an
attractive nuisance that did what attractive nuisances do: attract careless
youngsters into danger.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">This is
just one egregious example of the consequences of disconnected public landscape
maintenance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One worker piles up leaves
and expects that a crew will be brought to take them away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But no one is in charge of making sure that
gets done immediately, and it can sit for days or weeks before it gets done,
often after citizen complaints.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Businesses
generally don’t leave basic landscape maintenance jobs like leaf cleanup
half-done even for one day, much less over the weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have to look at it, and they expect
their maintenance people to finish a job before they leave.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Governments
do so routinely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their properties are spread
over wide areas; their workers are focused on their tasks; and their
contractors are narrowly focused on their contracts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No one is in charge of making sure that landscape
maintenance gets done in a timely, professional manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Landscape maintenance is an afterthought,
perpetually underfunded or not funded at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Community
corrections work crews are used for work like picking up and hauling leaves,
but their time is limited, both per customer and per day, and each government
only gets about a day a week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it’s time,
they have to go, regardless of how much work they have done or have yet to
do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Leaves
don’t have to be piled in the street to be dangerous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When they fall on the street and get slick,
rotting in the rain, they are a hazard to walkers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have slipped on them; so has my daughter,
walking to work in the early mornings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Drivers skid in them too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Residential property
owners and residents are the worst for leaving their leaves to rot in the
street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grants Pass doesn’t yet have a
code forbidding leaving leaves on streets long enough for them to begin to
rot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do we have to have somebody die
from a fall, or hit by a skidding driver, to pass such a code?</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">This writer has asserted, relying on memory,
that we used to have more summer rainfall in this area in the mid-eighties than
we have now, and concluded that our tiered water rates are the reason, as we
have been feeding the water cycle less as we save water to save money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Grants Pass city staff have told us that we
are using less every year, which has caused the city to raise rates to cover
overhead, which is most of the cost of cleaning and delivering water.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">An analysis of three decades of
monthly summer rainfall totals for the 97526 zip code, from June 1983 to September
2012, shows that precipitation in July and August, our driest and hottest
months, has fallen 0.09 inch per decade, from 0.41 inch to 0.32 inch to 0.23 inch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Average high rainfall for the two months,
a measure of storm strength, has also fallen from 0.25 inch the first decade to
0.17 inch in the second, and 0.12 inch the third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the first decade, there were bigger
storms on average in July and August, the middle of the irrigation season, than
in June-August or July-September: 0.25 inch as opposed to 0.23 and 0.24
inches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This reverses in the second
decade: 0.17 inch in July-August as opposed to 0.22 inch with June or September
included.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It proportionately drops more
in the third decade, with 0.12 inch compared to 0.17 inch with June or September
averaged in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">This fits well with the idea that
irrigation feeds the water cycle and increases rainfall in the general area,
particularly thunderstorms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But some
would blame this drop in rainfall on global warming caused by higher CO2
levels.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>More heat doesn’t necessarily
mean less rain, as monsoons and summer thunderstorms in particular are
caused by heat sending moisture high in the air, but less rain almost certainly
means more heat from lack of evaporative cooling.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Temperature records for the same
three decades in July and August alone, show that the average mean mid-summer
temperatures fell from the first decade to the second, from 71.4° Fahrenheit to
69.2°, a drop of 0.6 °; and it rose to 73.2°, a gain of 4°, in the third.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It looks like temperatures rose from lack of
rain, but the lack was not sufficient to stop a general cooling trend in the
second decade.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">Since we started metering water and
charging higher rates for higher use, both our water use and our mid-summer
rainfall in Josephine County have fallen steadily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Average temperatures during the same period
have gone up and down over the decades, so the lack of rain is not
temperature-driven, and is probably due to less irrigation in the City of
Grants Pass and its surrounding areas, where many farms are no longer being irrigated
because they are no longer being actively farmed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span>
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<td class="xl66" colspan="4" height="34" style="height: 25.5pt; width: 477pt;" width="635"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Grants Pass Precipitation for June-September, 1983-2012</span></span></td>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></td>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Summer Rainfall by the
month, </span></span></td>
<td class="xl64"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
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<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">averaged by season and decade</span></span></td>
<td class="xl64"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">June-Aug</span></span></td>
<td class="xl64"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">July-Sept</span></span></td>
<td class="xl64"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">July-Aug</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1983-1992</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.45</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.46</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">0.41</span></b></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1993-2002</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.38</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.43</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">0.32</span></b></span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2003-2012</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.47</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.29</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">0.23</span></b></span></td>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Monthly High Daily Rainfall</span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">averaged by season and decade</span></span></td>
<td class="xl64"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">June-Aug</span></span></td>
<td class="xl64"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">July-Sept</span></span></td>
<td class="xl64"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">July-Aug</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1983-1992</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">0.23</span></b></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">0.24</span></b></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">0.25</span></b></span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1993-2002</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.22</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.22</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">0.17</span></b></span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2003-2012</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.17</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">0.17</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">0.12</span></b></span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Average Temps in July, August</span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> high</span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> mean</span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> low</span></span></td>
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<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1983-1992</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">102.1</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">71.4</span></b></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">43.3</span></span></td>
</tr>
<tr height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;">
<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1993-2002</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">101.5</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">69.2</span></b></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">41.3</span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2003-2012</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">102.5</span></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl65"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">73.2</span></b></span></td>
<td align="right" class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">48.8</span></span></td>
</tr>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
<td class="xl63"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td>
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<td class="xl63" height="31" style="height: 23.25pt;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Data from
weathersource.com, </span></span></td>
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and summarized by Rycke Brown</span></span></td>
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is easy, if you do it naturally.</span></i></b></span></div>
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Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-57842253382562413612013-10-03T08:46:00.001-07:002013-10-03T08:47:57.708-07:00Clean Water Makes Cleaner Food<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">On KAJO’s Tuesday talk show this
week, one of the Councilors present replied to my proposal to change our water
rates to promote irrigation that it is a shame that children in Africa don’t
have access to clean water, while we are using it to water our yards.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>This
reminds me of what we were told as children: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Eat your dinner; there are starving people in
China.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A smart child would say, “Then
send it to China.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An American eating dinner
couldn’t fill a Chinese stomach.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
can’t send any clean water that we don’t use to children in Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem in Africa is a lack of
water-cleaning equipment, such as the new “flash” distiller that the same
Councilor was talking about a few minutes before, which the Navy is using to
provide ship-board water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said that it
can clean seawater faster than it can be pumped overboard.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I
get the same kind of response from Greens on Linked In: Look at all the fresh
water shortages around the world!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have to save it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">All fresh and clean water shortages
are local.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those with a lot of fresh,
clean water cannot send it to those who don’t have enough and are far
away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Los Angeles has built giant
pipelines to bring water to their overgrown city, but I don’t think you want to
sell water to LA.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;">We can, however, send it on the wind
over the Cascades to the Klamath Basin, by using it for irrigation and letting
it blow over the hill to them, while first making rain in Josephine and Jackson
Counties.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Still,
some think that cleaned water is wasted if one throws it on plants.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The FDA and Department of Agriculture might
differ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There have been e-coli outbreaks
caused by irrigating with dirty water.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
<span class="text">Grants Pass Water Quality Monitoring report for 2003-2005
prepared by Rogue Valley Council of Governments showed high <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">E. coli</i> levels for all streams except
Jones Creek and the Rogue River and moderate levels in the Rogue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By using city water on the food we grow, we
avoid <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">E. coli</i> contamination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is also safer water to use in a mister
or sprinkler for children to play in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
actual cleaning of our water costs very little, but cleaned water is not wasted
by using it for irrigation or cooling and cleaning our air.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>If
you want to help children in Africa, donate to a charity that builds water
plants there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have poor children in
Grants Pass that are growing up without green yards or growing their own food.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Poor families are paying more than they
should for household water as well, subsidizing single seniors with much more
money.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The City can give a discount to
seniors who are using food stamps; the rest can pay their fair share for our water
plant.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">Gardening
is easy, if you do it naturally.</span></i></b></span></div>
Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-43327033342483759242013-10-01T07:07:00.000-07:002013-10-01T07:07:32.581-07:00The World’s Greatest Gardening Scissors<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">There is
one brand of gardening scissors that can do a lot more than pruning, a lot
better than any other brand I’ve seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s Kengyu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look it up on the
web.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found the manufacturer the other
day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, I can only find secondary
suppliers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.environmentalgreenproducts.com/store/kengyu-brand-gardenman-cut-scissors-kg-4-pr-16236.html">http://www.environmentalgreenproducts.com/store/kengyu-brand-gardenman-cut-scissors-kg-4-pr-16236.html</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">They have
red and white plastic-covered loop handles, soft on the outside, and easy to
hold, unlike hand pruners, which have to be actively held.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With their short, thin, sharp blades, they
fit into tiny spaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were made for
bonsai, but they can cut anything that hand pruners can cut, more easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those blades are very sharp at the tip; they
need a tool belt or holster to hold them safely.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like a tool belt, which can also hold
gloves and trash.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Only in
the last couple of years have I found the other great use for them: as a
weeding tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faced with the problem of
weeding goat heads and star thistle from dry ground, I found that I could cut
them below their crowns and they would not grow back, being annuals in
flower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This just happens to be the
point at which they violate our nuisance code and must be weeded lest they
become a nuisance.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">When an
annual starts to flower, it puts all of its energy into that flower stalk; all
of its energy is in the crown, where all the growth comes from, and above
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only scissors with Kengyu’s
super-hard Japanese steel and thin, narrow shape can cut roots under the crown
easily.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And they still stay sharp enough
for most pruning jobs after cutting roots in a lot of dirt and gravel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">They
really come into their own when weeding crabgrass, which tends to root deeply
in well-watered ground, rooting additionally along the stem joints as they
spread out from the clump.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One can slide
them under the entire crown and cut off those wiry roots, which have no food
and die.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">They can
also be used to push down alongside small dandelions to pull more of the root
as one pulls the plant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For bigger
dandelions and dock, however, one will get better results by pushing a shovel or
a weeding knife next to the plant, popping the root loose without pulling out
the soil, and pulling the root out.</span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">They can
also cut weeds out of cracks in pavements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The sharp tips can reach down under the crown in most cases, and cut it
off the root, where one would otherwise just pull the leaves off.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
</span><br />
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Yesterday,
I used them for taking moss off my roof.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was cleaning out the gutters for fall rains and noticed that the moss
was dead and dry, easy to clean out of the gaps between the shingles with the
tips of the scissors, and to brush it off the bottom edges.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It ended up taking the sharp tips off the
scissors, making them safe for my grandson to use.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I rarely use the tips anyways, and this
morning they were cutting goat heads out of Schroeder Dog Park just as well as
ever.</span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gardening
is easy, if you do it naturally.</span></i></b></div>
Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-19287455381716208232013-10-01T07:05:00.001-07:002013-10-01T07:05:54.009-07:00Showing Visitors Our Ugly<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">High water
rates have caused the least among us, and the greatest, to neglect our
properties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it’s the whole
property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes it’s just a
portion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That portion is all too often
right along the street, and the street itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The ugliness and neglect, though not the reason for it, are all too
obvious to visitors, who are not used to looking past it to what the residents
allow themselves to see.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Residential
properties along major roads, like Bridge Street, have lower property values
because of the traffic, and are thus inhabited by poorer people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of these cannot afford to water their
properties at our high marginal rates that cost this gardener over $80 per
month in the summer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many of them are
dry all summer, and even if mowed, are ugly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But since no one likes to maintain ugly, many of them are not mowed, and
fill with weeds like false dandelion.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Some
people disown a portion of their property, watering and mowing the part around
the house, but do not weed or mow the rest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some do so explicitly, inexplicably thinking that the area along the
street outside their fence belongs to the city because the city has a utility
easement that restricts what they can do with it, and therefore the city must
maintain it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The city
apparently doesn’t hear about this and certainly doesn’t disabuse them of the
notion by telling them to clean up their weeds and litter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That would mean that the city would have to
do the same on its property margins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
City has acquired so much property that it has trouble maintaining it.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">These
property margins tend to fill up with wild lettuce, heron’s bill, and mare’s
tails, cheat, foxtails, and blackberries, especially after someone tries to
stop the weeds with Roundup, which fertilizes the next generation of annual and
broadleaf weeds while killing the present one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The County’s Fairgrounds is a case in point, with mare’s tails, cheat, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and blackberries dominating their frontage
along their parking lot on Redwood Avenue.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Streets
and sidewalks have crabgrass, wild lettuce, and even star thistle and goat
heads growing in the cracks because people disown the public easement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In reality, we own or rent property to the
middle of the street; the city only has an easement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we, as residents and/or property owners,
are Johnny-on-the-spot to keep that street and sidewalk clean.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">But with
the greatest and the least among us disowning portions of our properties, the
middle follows the example of both.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some
don’t maintain their property at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>One man said, “I have a business to run!” while he stood there with no
business and a worker standing idle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Gardening is easy, if you do it naturally</span></i></span></div>
Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-85665648140101423602013-09-24T07:26:00.001-07:002013-09-25T06:53:01.109-07:00Use Leaves; Don’t Lose Them<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Black Walnut in a bank parking lot. A good street tree, apart from its nuts, but they are better than plums.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">The Grants
Pass City Council has finally decided to get out of the cheap compost and wood
waste disposal business and save about $200,000 a year. Our sewage solids will be trucked to Dry
Creek Landfill to become methane and make electricity. The Jo Gro property will be leased to
Republic Waste Services, where they will continue under that name, accepting
wood waste and yard waste and making compost with the latter, but it will be
without bio-solids or city subsidy, at prices Republic chooses. This means that the City will also not be
picking up bagged leaves for free this year.
It is unlikely that Republic will either, since they have to compete
with Southern Oregon Compost, which certainly doesn’t pick stuff up for free.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Since the
City will not be picking up leaves for free, this gardener will be not be
either, but I will pick up loads for $1 per bag, 40 lbs or less, to use on my
customers’ properties for weed control.
But I’d really rather that you use them on your own property to keep the
weeds down.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Leaves
make superior mulch for weed control because the top layers dry out quickly,
and do not make a good seed bed until they become compost or worm
castings. Worms love leaves for food,
and they and the soil are sheltered by them from freezing, drying, wind, and
rain. Two inches can stop most small
plants and small seeds. More can stop
bigger plants and seeds. But bulbs and
established perennials will generally work their way through several inches of
leaves. </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">A foot of
leaves will decompose more quickly when covered with an inch of compost, and
allow vegetable seeds that are sprinkled or poked into the compost to grow into
huge plants.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">There are
no leaves in this area that are not good for mulch. The ones that people question, oak, pine and
black walnut, are the best for weed control.
</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Oak and
pine are said to be too acid, but they are not acid themselves; they just take
a full year to decompose. Shade and
summer watering cause acid soil by leaching away calcium; evaporation brings
calcium back to the surface. These
leaves shade the soil longer than most other leaves. But when they are piled deep, the worms eat
them and sweeten the soil with their castings, resulting in good soil.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Walnut
leaves, especially black walnut, are said to be herbicidal and kill
plants. But they are actually a pre-emergent
herbicide that stops any seed smaller than a nut from coming up. Starts and established plants are not
affected. Black walnut leaves are
quickly eaten by worms and are generally gone by the end of spring, except for
their long petioles. But their
pre-emergent effect sticks around all season.
To sprout seeds on black walnut soil, lay down an inch of compost and
sprinkle them on. To sprout larger
seeds, spread another inch of compost on top of them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">9/20/2013 <i>Published
in <b>News-You-Can-Use-by-Rycke.blogspot.com</b>,
and <b>GardenGrantsPass.blogspot.com.</b></i></span></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><i> Join Garden Grants
Pass in <b>free gardening classes</b> at
Greenwood and Schroeder Dog Parks; contact
</i></span></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="line-height: 115%;">Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener 541-955-9040 rycke@gardener.com</span></b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="line-height: 115%;">Gardening
is easy, if you do it naturally.</span></i></span></span></div>
Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-86110939853628134032013-09-18T09:44:00.001-07:002013-10-04T06:43:11.007-07:00Petition to the Grants Pass City Council: Change our water rate structure to promote irrigation.<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A major goal of the
City of Grants Pass is to “be a city that looks safe and is safe.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well-watered, well-maintained properties are
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Grants Pass once had
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and maintained them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But now we have
meters and tiered water rates that discourage water use, charging little per
unit for a very low base and more per unit for greater use, in several
tiers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has discouraged watering and
gardening of residential, commercial, and public landscapes, and has likewise
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the cost of providing clean water is overhead</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in plant and
people; very little of it is unit cost for cleaning and pumping.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Discouraging watering of yards has made the
City raise rates several times to cover the loss of income from lower water
use; the last time the city raised rates, you raised the base rate to stop
making the water plant’s bad financial situation worse.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gardening in Grants
Pass has become a privilege of the middle class, the rich, and those willing</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
to bear the cost of the water plant, which is borne by fewer people as more
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Many
poor people, especially our elderly poor, would like to better care for their
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THEREFORE,
we, the undersigned voters of Grants Pass, respectfully request that the Grants
Pass City Council change our water rate structure:</b> Charge each household a
flat rate based on the average household’s winter water use, sufficient to
cover Water Department overhead; price the second tier at a lower unit cost
sufficient to cover the City’s unit costs of providing water; and provide the
third and top tier, presumed to be used for irrigation, cooling, and washing,
at no cost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Charge businesses an
individual base rate based on each business’ average winter water use, as you
do for sewer, accounting for much greater size differences and water use.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>This is an advisory petition</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>You may sign this petition on Saturday at the Growers Market between 10:00 and 1:00 PM or contact:</i></b></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>541-955-9040<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rycke@gardener.com</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I knew
gardening was in real trouble when the Mayor proclaimed National Garden Week,
to honor gardening.<span> </span>It’s like a week to
honor housekeeping.<span> </span>But housekeeping is
harder to do without.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">There is a
worse thing than a lot of competition: not enough competition.<span> </span>It shows in our local gardening
business.<span> </span>There are not enough people
willing to pull weeds for other people for money.<span> </span>There are so few of them that most landscape
maintenance companies cannot find them and have stopped looking.<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">They
mulch, spray, mow, hedge, and blow, but don’t pull weeds.<span> </span>They plant color annuals in blocks of potting
soil and boxes.<span> </span>Some spread “weed
barrier” cloth and cover it with bark or rocks, in a vain attempt to stop weeds
from growing.<span> </span>It doesn’t work very long,
and the cloth eventually shows and is ugly.<span>
</span>They mow over goatheads with riding mowers, spreading them from one
property to the next on their tires.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">When a necessary
service is hard to find and expensive when one finds it, then people start to
think of it as a luxury.<span> </span>After all, few
of one’s neighbors are gardening, and good weeding is definitely more expensive
when you find someone willing to do it, being detail work that takes more time
than whacking weeds.<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But God is
in the details, and the Devil lies in ignoring those details.<span> </span>Expensive lawns fill with weeds like
nutsedge, which can only be controlled by pulling.<span> </span>Proper maintenance is always better than the
alternative.<span> </span>But if one can’t find the
workers, one can’t do it.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Nor does a
business necessarily want to stand out from the norm.<span> </span>When government and most businesses are
content with mediocrity or even downright ugliness, it is safer to blend
in.<span> </span>People might look on a beautifully
maintained landscape as conspicuous consumption.<span> </span>Nor do most businesses want to spend more
money than they have to.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Likewise, large,
out of town corporations find it safer and cheaper to blend in to local
mediocrity, and do not budget for full maintenance, or in many cases, any
maintenance.<span> </span>This happened to Cascade
Block when they were bought out by Willamette Graystone.<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Banks
don’t do any maintenance on foreclosed properties that the police don’t make
them do.<span> </span>The police cannot demand that
which the City does not do itself, though our code demands gardening every
square foot of the City, since it forbids mature and seeding weeds.<span> </span>But it can’t be done if the City can’t find
enough workers willing to do it on a regular basis.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In the
face of all this, gardening is endangered, and a gardener has a hard time
finding people willing to pay for proper landscape maintenance, because one
does not have enough competition.</span></span></span></div>
Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-37380067454529940642013-09-16T08:08:00.000-07:002013-09-17T06:57:23.667-07:00When the Poor Can’t Garden<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It has
been difficult to hire real gardeners in Grants Pass, and throughout the dry
interior of the West, for more than a decade.
There are many people who will mow, hedge, spray and blow, but few
willing to pull weeds. That’s because
the cities have cut off the supply of poor gardeners who are not intimidated by
weeds and weeding, who know the work from their youth up.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0K5MuxtztaleivMlHY5WuVOM9UNNMHqrCm7rgOJfBKpsIIDshvupOApZTEJ4YiTxwrZZX9lOoLzyM4CllIQDItOxSZRfooKXtvaYKmg7hBHqfWgEBGHxcp_8UmJ2SqA9hExCTYMnvdh0/s1600/front+yard+sprinkler.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0K5MuxtztaleivMlHY5WuVOM9UNNMHqrCm7rgOJfBKpsIIDshvupOApZTEJ4YiTxwrZZX9lOoLzyM4CllIQDItOxSZRfooKXtvaYKmg7hBHqfWgEBGHxcp_8UmJ2SqA9hExCTYMnvdh0/s640/front+yard+sprinkler.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;">My favorite kind of sprinkler, a copper water spinner. The blue tubes are misters.</span></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">They
didn’t do it on purpose; they were trying to save water. In Grants Pass, they were probably trying to
not have to build a new water plant, not trying to save water for the fish in
the river, which are not endangered in our river. Oregon mandated metered water, and Grants
Pass and many other cities went further, charging higher rates for higher tiers
of use, with the lowest rate covering just enough water for one person’s
household use, which made the rates lowest for single people on small lots.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is
hardest on poor working families, who have to live several or more to a house,
and have to pay higher rates for household use with each additional person in
the household. When people have to spend
every dollar carefully, they prioritize their spending to the things that
matter the most to them, and the yard that they spend relatively little time in
is the first casualty. That saves, not
only the cost of the water, but the time it takes to use it, and the time one
would spend mowing the grass that stops growing without watering.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">That last
bit of saving time and energy is temporary; in a dry climate, dry land weeds
move in and take over the yard within a few years, and one has to mow even more
frequently to keep the weeds down. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A dry lawn
is ugly, and no one likes to maintain ugly, so many dry lawns do not get mowed
at all after a while, and send their weed seeds around the neighborhood. Many back yards are not maintained at all;
some people also disown the areas outside their fences, or areas that can’t be
mowed, leaving the rest to be a nuisance to the neighbors.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This has
been going on for decades. After a
generation, we no longer have many youngsters among the poor who have gardened
and are not afraid to pull and dig weeds for money. Most landscape maintenance companies don’t
employ them because they cannot find them.
The notable exceptions are Mexicans who pull every plant that is not a
tree or shrub. I’ve been hearing this
from customers and seeing this for the 13 years I have been gardening in this
town.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">To turn
this around, we have to change our water rates to promote, not discourage,
irrigation. And then we have to enforce
our weed and litter nuisance codes, which essentially mandate gardening,
forbidding litter and mature and seeding weeds.
With a little nudging from our public nags, police and firemen, all of
our residents will again learn to garden, and retirees and businesses will have
once again have gardeners to pull their weeds.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Bermuda
grass is one of the most feared perennial weeds around, even in the areas where
it is considered a good lawn grass. It
greens up easily in summer with good watering, but it goes dormant for the
colder half of the year in our climate, so in this area it is a weed. It can travel up to 18 inches deep and easily
travel under 6 feet of sidewalk to come up on the other side. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Bermuda grass, traveling over 4 x 8 sand.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">But its
large, strong rhizomes (traveling storage roots) are also its greatest
weakness. They are fat and shiny, 1/8 to
¼ inch thick, easy to see and sort out from loosened soil. Their feeder roots are thin and wiry, with no
food storage.</span><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dug Bermuda, showing its shiny rhizomes. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Like crabgrass,
its annual, or considering it lives until frost, tender perennial, relative,
they don’t re-grow from feeder roots. We
know they are related because they have the same seed stalk, with four arms and
small seeds. Crabgrass grows in a clump; Bermuda grows out of the ground. Cut a
crabgrass crown off its roots and it is gone; get all of the shiny Bermuda
grass rhizomes out of the soil and it also is gone. That is except for their seeds, which are
small and easy to smother with mulch.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Bermuda grass with seed stalks</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mature crab grass; note the clumping growth and fat leaves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">While
those rhizomes can travel deep, they don’t go any deeper than they need to
travel, which is generally within a few inches of the surface. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">They can be
dug and sorted out of the soil. Push a
shovel in the ground, and loosen the soil.
Pull on the grass stems. Shake
the soil off the roots, and put them in a bucket. Get all the rhizomes out of that shovel-full;
move the shovel back a few inches; loosen the soil; pull the roots. Keep going until you get all of it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It isn’t
as easy as spraying Roundup (glyphosate salts).
But killing those fat roots with glyphosate takes all summer, and you
will still have to dig the stubborn bits that insist on growing back. They are too small to suck up enough
glyphosate to kill the remainder, and those pieces may be resistant to glyphosate. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But after
killing a lawn with glyphosate, you will have thereby fertilized the ground for
broadleaf plants and annual grass, not perennial grass, and lawn grass won’t
grow well. This is okay if you would
rather weed a ground cover than mow. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Creeping Jenny, with 4 x 8 sand path</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Creeping
Jenny (<i>Lysimachia</i>) is a great soft green ground cover that doesn’t need
mowing. It travels in a mass over ground,
about a foot per month, at which point it starts to root. To stop its advance, keep pulling it as it
moves into the area you don’t want it; it has soft stems that pull easily and
don’t need cutting; it roots only about 2” deep. It is water dependent, and will warn one that
it is getting dry by getting dull and flattening to the ground; the next step is
to brown out. It can be brought back by
watering, but not quickly.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Baker Park
is a boat landing on the Rogue River just above Riverside Park, the first and
most central park in the city of Grants Pass.
It has an old fire station up front by East Parkside and Parkway,
followed by a bench next to a sidewalk facing away from the river and toward East
Parkside and the fire station. This is
the only bench in the park. It is backed
by a mass of live and dead blackberries and other weeds, which continue down
the east side of the sidewalk to the parking area and bathroom.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It has a
bathroom at the top end of the parking area, with a trash can outside it. There are two more trash cans by the boat
landing. These get emptied frequently,
if not daily, but the City apparently doesn’t hire people to pick up the litter
that is strewn from top to bottom of the “improved” area and gets worse in the
unimproved area, the vast majority of the city’s land upriver. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is
landscaped only on the west side to its border and in the middle; the east side
is allowed to be “wild”—full of blackberries and other noxious and nuisance
weeds that block the view of whatever is behind them and amount to a fire
hazard, particularly between the upper area and the Parkway Bridge. The planted shrubbery is also full of
blackberries, tall grass, other weeds, and litter.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Blackberries, East of the path down to the parking lot.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">There is a
sign on the east edge of the parking lot, telling us that the Middle Rogue
Steelheaders have “adopted” this stretch of river—with trash around it and
weeds behind it. It is said that they
clean only the river side itself, and only once a year, at the end of summer. The sign is out of that territory, but the
litter gets worse closer to the river. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Groups
generally adopt a piece of public property to show their civic-mindedness. As adoption signs go, this one is very bad
advertising, but it shows the true nature of recreational fishermen. They aren’t there to work. They’d be better thought of if they’d pick up
the area in which they are fishing, before and after they fish.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Last year,
Grants Pass built a wide, paved biking and walking trail to Baker Park from
East Parkside, behind our relatively new “Public Safety” (police and fire)
station, under the Parkway Bridge, and into the park. The weeds close in around the path, as it
reaches the parking area.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Blackberries close in on path, east of the parking lot.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">But the
side toward the river becomes willows, blackberries, weeds, and litter, and there
is a hobo camp a few hundred feet upstream of the boat landing. Until this winter, they had an open willow
grove with many beaten paths, shielded by blackberries. Beyond that, a corral was constructed from
willow logs in thicket growth to shield the campers. This year, winter high water knocked down the
willows with several large logs, and it has become a maze of blackberries and
willow sprouts in an obstacle course of logs and limbs, with many pockets in
the detritus for sleeping shelters and a few open areas. The area is, of course, full of litter and
discarded clothes and blankets. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">There is,
this year, a nice shallow wading area, suitable for young children, next to the
boat landing, as sand has filled in below the gravel bars on this side of the
river. But the weeds, litter, and the
camp upriver make it feel unsafe even in daylight, in a city whose major goal
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Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-40582164877853276472013-08-19T08:13:00.001-07:002013-09-21T08:07:22.064-07:00How to Control Insect Pests Naturally<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The EPA
just approved another systemic pesticide, saying that it is needed because the
pests have become immune to previous poisons.
This is a losing game, as plant-eating pests can easily outbreed the
poisons, while their predators and bees cannot.
Systemic pesticides, which are distributed into every part of the plant
through its roots and stems, are particularly dangerous to bees, hummingbirds,
and predatory insects, which rely on nectar for fuel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The
smallest pests are inherently the hardest to control in a conventional yard or
farm, yet they can be easily managed in a naturally managed landscape that
makes their predators comfortable and lets them breed. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Such pests
are not pestilential all the time; it is only when they infest and become a
plague that they become a real problem.
If most plants that sprout in natural conditions were able to grow to
maturity, they would be too small and crowded for the good of the rest of
us. Herbivorous “pests” thin most of the
plants as they grow, the smallest and weakest ones first.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">An
infestation of any pest is a feast for any predator that eats it. Given a chance to do their job, predators
multiply as they feast, and the population of the pest crashes back to
pre-infestation levels. In a natural
landscape, any infestation is a temporary affair. When ladybugs and soldier beetles home in on
aphids on roses, they don’t last long.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> </span><img height="300" src="http://changedesktop.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ladybug_IXL_by_webcruiser.jpg" width="400" /><br />
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things make insect predators comfortable: shelter; food; and water. The shelter for many predators is leaf mulch;
coarse bark works as well. Adults and/or
larvae crawl around under the mulch, eating whatever they can kill. At night, many crawl out of hiding and stalk
their prey on the plants. Ground
predators include soldier beetle larvae, ground beetles, ants, spiders,
centipedes, and even earwigs, which eat fungus-infected leaves, not healthy
plant tissue.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Since
insects have little sugar or fat, their predators need an energy source like
nectar, and many of them, like parasitic wasps and soldier beetles, prefer
small flowers, the smaller the better.
Carrot flowers qualify, as do chickweed and purslane, chickweed in
spring, purslane in summer. Both of
these low, spreading annuals are useful and edible, and don’t bother other
plants much. Deadhead your carrot
flowers; they are likely to make half-wild seed that makes white, skinny roots.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Water is
needed as well. If you buy ladybugs or
spider mite predators, it is important to water the tops of the plants so they
can take a first drink. Bees, wasps and
birds mob sources of water in hot, dry weather.
Spider mites love dryness and shun humidity. Sprinkler irrigation and misters are best for
providing the water that your predators need, along with baths and fountains
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>6<sup>th</sup>
Speech to Networking Toastmasters, 6/24/2013</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Good morning, Toastmasters and Honored Guests:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">I come dressed for work, with a batch of tools to show you,
tools that every homeowner would find very handy to have around, regardless of
whether or not you do your own gardening, or hire help. If you hire help that has tools, it is very
handy for the help to have extra tools available on occasion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">More important, if you know what you need to have done, and
have the tools to do it, <b>you can hire
workers without truck or tools for as little as $10 per hour</b>, rather than
$15 for those who have tools, and teach them how to garden right from the
start. As a garden coach I can help you
figure out exactly what you need to have done, and you can tell your helpers
exactly how to do it, or have me explain it for you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">I’ll start with a little gem that everyone should own, a <b>battery powered surface sweeper</b>. It’s light, easy, and so quiet you don’t even
need earplugs. (demonstrate) Even if you
have a gardener with this tool, having two means having twice the sweeping
time; they only work about 15-20 minutes to a charge. With it, and maybe some extra batteries, you
can easily keep your pavements and paths clean between your gardener’s visits. There are several kinds, some with smaller
and more powerful batteries. They run
about $50-$98.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Another handy tool to have around between visits by your
gardener is a <b>web duster</b>. I have this one on a 16’ extendable pole to
get webs up to the second story. Cobweb
spiders are the homeless tramps of the spider world; they don’t clean or repair
their dwellings; they camp. When a web
gets dirty, visible, and therefore useless, they move on and build another one,
leaving you to clean up. It pays to hit
every nook and cranny, even if you don’t see webs; the spider is in the web you
don’t see yet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">These can even be operated without<b> gloves</b>, which is why I bring up gloves second. You should have some to handle plants from
your garden, or soil, or tools, all of which can be hard on hands. These nitrile gloves are great because you
can actually feel the textural differences of different kinds of plants; no
seams; very comfortable, though a bit sweaty.
In winter, you can wear two sizes, for instance a small in a medium, and
they keep your hands surprisingly warm, even when wet.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">To carry gloves, tools, trash and small weeds, <b>a small tool belt</b> is just the
thing. This is about the smallest one
Diamond sells, and I love all four pockets, the biggest one for trash.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One tool my belt cannot be without is <b>Kengyu pruning scissors</b>. Once it
was pruners, but these bonsai scissors can cut anything pruners can in smaller
spaces. They can
also be used for weeding, by cutting annuals like crab grass under the
crown when they are blooming; at that stage, they have no food in their
roots and will die.</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Loppers come next in the line of cutters, and this model of
lopper, <b>Fiskar’s 18” gear-action lopper</b>,
can cut through nearly anything they can get around, thanks the extra leverage
from this gear action. The gear makes it
possible to get the same leverage as a much longer handle, but with the short
handles, you can work in tighter spaces.
They have become surprisingly hard to find; I order them these days from
Amazon.com.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">Of course you should have <b>a good, solid wheel barrow, a round shovel; a square shovel; and a
garden rake, the solid, heavy kind of rake</b>.
But rather than a leaf rake, you should have a <b>folding rake</b> like this. It
expands out for leaf cleanup, but narrows down to get in tight spaces and is
more rigid when narrowed, so you can move gravel and dirt with it, often taking
the place of a hard rake. Thanks to this, I rarely use the heavy garden
rake.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">This rake works well with a <b>hula hoe</b> to maintain light gravel paths. All path mulches eventually become seed beds,
including gravel. But <b>4 x 8 sand</b>, actually a light, rounded
gravel, can be worked with a hula hoe, cutting off and pulling small weeds,
which can be gathered with a rake and discarded. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">The last tool is one you might find surprising: <b>wide polyester cloth.</b> I buy it at Wal-Mart in the remnant rack for
$1 or $2 a yard. The width is important
to cover a truck bed. It can be used to
line a truck for carrying loads of material; it keeps stuff from leaking out of
the truck, and makes it easy to pull out the last of the load. The same allows easy dumping of clippings
from a truck. A smaller cloth can be
used to cover a load for hauling, and then cover the ground behind the truck to
catch the slop during unloading. A
smaller cloth still can line a wheelbarrow so you can easily pick up clippings
and dump them in a truck, or to catch dirt during digging operations, so it can
all go back in the hole.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">If you own a home with a yard, you should have the tools to
work in that yard, regardless of whether you have someone else do the yard
work. At the very least, you should be
able to blow away the debris and sweep away the cobwebs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%;">I yield the floor to the Toastmaster.</span></span></div>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Honorable
Mayor, Council, and Manager:</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We don’t
have to breathe smoke until winter. I’m
breathing in my yard a lot easier than downtown, because I use misters and
sprinklers to keep the smoke down. And
I’m not even watering more than necessary to keep my yard alive and
healthy. I pay about $80 extra a month
to do it. We shouldn’t have to pay
through the nose to maintain our yards.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Watering one’s
property with sprinklers and misters benefits oneself and neighbors by cleaning
and humidifying the air. If enough
people do it, we can even make rain. <a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347691/description/Watering_fields_in_California_boosts_rainfall_in_Southwest" target="_blank">An article in Science News</a> tells us that farmers irrigating in California
cause more rain in the Four Corners area and put more water in the Colorado
River to water farms in the desert.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> This should not be surprising. It’s just an illustration on a large scale of
the water cycle we were taught as children.
It works on the local scale as well.
In our bowl of a valley, when we have a high pressure inversion, water
can evaporate and cause thunderstorms in our valley, if we throw enough water
in the air. When we are not in
inversion, it can blow upstream and fill the Rogue and Klamath Rivers with rain.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> We used to make rain, in the ‘80s, by
watering our yards and farms. We had
thunderstorms nearly every week in ’85 and ’86 when I lived here. A lot of creeks were running year-round then
that are seasonal now. What
changed? The way we charge for water.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> The provision of water is a properly a
service, like sewer, not the sale of a commodity, like electricity. The water we get from the river is
essentially free; the service is cleaning and delivering it, and like sewer, is
mostly overhead in plant and employees.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Pricing it as a commodity has put us
into a spiral of rising rates and dropping usage. The city admitted this a few years back when
asking for a rate increase. The last
time you raised rates, you raised the basic rate, which at least did not make matters
worse.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> A few years ago, the city started
charging for sewer based on winter water use rather than a flat rate per
household. The same could be done for
water, rather than charging us extra for watering our yards.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> Please make this an emergency
ordinance. Let us put enough water in
the air now to make rain that will fill our seasonal creeks again and put these
fires out.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><i> Speech to the Grants Pass City Council, 8/7/2013</i></span></span></span></div>
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Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-32598990465115902122013-08-03T18:43:00.000-07:002013-09-21T07:49:33.572-07:00We Can Make Rain<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> A famous
comedian said he was told that Las Vegas is at least a dry heat.<span> </span>He retorted, “So is a match.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>We don’t have to have such dry, smoky
heat in Grants Pass.<span> </span>An article in
Science News shows us the way.<span> </span>We can
make it rain and maybe put out these forest fires around us:<span> </span></span><span style="color: black; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347691/description/Watering_fields_in_California_boosts_rainfall_in_Southwest"><span style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347691/description/Watering_fields_in_California_boosts_rainfall_in_Southwest</span></a>.
</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>“<span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black;">Farmers
in California help make it rain in the American Southwest, a new computer
simulation suggests. Water that evaporates from irrigated fields in
California’s Central Valley travels to the Four Corners region, where it boosts
summer rain and increases runoff to the Colorado River, researchers report
online January 12 in <em>Geophysical Research Letters</em>….”</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">We in the
River City should water like our lives depend on it, because they do, and so do
farmers downwind and uphill of us in the Klamath basin.<span> </span></span><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; line-height: 115%;">This study is just a great
illustration of the simple hydrological cycle we learned as children:<span> </span>Water that falls on the ground from rain or
irrigation evaporates or is transpired by plants; builds up into clouds, and
falls as rain, part of which evaporates from the wet ground and thirsty plants.<span> </span>More falls at higher, cooler elevations.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; line-height: 115%;">The more
plants we grow, the more water we put in the air, because they suck it out of
the soil efficiently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That grass lawns
take a lot of water is a good thing; please love and care for yours. Or plant a
thirsty ground cover like creeping jenny or blue star creeper that you don’t
have to mow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; line-height: 115%;">We live
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sprinklers and misters cannot be wasted; we have plenty of it, and throwing it
in the air makes more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so clean
that you can grow pitcher plants in it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; line-height: 115%;">It
cleans the air where it runs and cools and humidifies the neighborhood.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It blows up river and falls as rain, filling
our Rogue River and the Klamath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It makes rain
in Medford, a slightly higher elevation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It can even make wet thunderstorms here, instead of dry lightning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It can cycle several times in the course of
moving east or even in our bowl of a valley, if we just throw enough water around.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; line-height: 115%;">We used
to do just that in the mid-eighties, when the vast majority of us were still
watering lawns, and the farms around us were being fully farmed and
irrigated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember wet thunderstorms
nearly every week when I lived here in the summers of ’85 and ’86, rather than
dry lightning and forest fires.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% white; color: black; line-height: 115%;">The
farmers in the Klamath basin cannot use the Klamath River water because the Indians
have claimed the salmon’s share; they are at the top of the river, not near the
end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We in the Rogue Valley can make
rain for them, and for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please water
your yards, and spread the word.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Speech to the Grants Pass City Council, 8/7/2013</i></span></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>Join Garden Grants Pass in gardening classes at Greenwood
and Schroeder Dog Parks. </i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Rycke
Brown, Natural Gardener<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>541-955-9040<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rycke@gardener.com</span></b></span>Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-77716922469369559362013-07-29T07:47:00.002-07:002013-09-21T07:44:22.845-07:00Cobweb Spiders Camp<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A tool
every resident should have is a web duster, a broom on a pole with a puff head,
to take out cobwebs inside and outside the house. The “Webster” head can be found at Diamond,
with a variety of poles, extendable and otherwise. Mine has three sections and extends to 16
feet to get the eaves on the second story.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The cobweb
spider is the homeless vagrant of the spider world. Rather than build and repair a strong,
long-term dwelling in a good location as does the classic orb weaver, it builds
and camps in a small, quick, weak web anywhere it can find a surface to sling
it, preferably out of the rain, but anywhere in dry weather, like now. </span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">As soon as
its web gets dirty, visible, and therefore useless, it moves on and builds
another nearby. The dirty webs actually
steer its prey into the invisible new web.
And they can make even a pretty shrub or house look neglected in short
order.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I saw this
effect on one of my most beautiful properties, when a mister showed up the
cobwebs that had appeared on the ground cover overnight. Approaching the door, I saw a piece of
litter, a gas receipt, crumpled and thrown on the ground cover by someone who
had actually been at her door.
Unconsciously, the person saw the cobwebs and threw his trash into the
ugliness of the webs, despite the beauty of the rest of the property. A few webs are all it takes to turn on the
unconscious urge to litter.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Cobwebs
are all over town, particularly infesting hedges and certain shrubs that they
favor, like juniper and rosemary, but also every neglected inward corner of a
building, particularly under the eaves. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I’ve been petitioning door-to-door lately, and the cobwebs around the
front doors make one shudder. Your
gardener or landscape maintenance man cannot visit often enough to clean these
up; it is up to residents. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The way to
actually discourage these spiders is to sweep their webs <i>before you see them</i>,
while they are still useful to the spider.
If you only sweep the visible webs, you aren’t even bothering the
spiders. </span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Sweep every corner where they
might build, particularly where you see a spider but no web. When you sweep them off a building, it pays
to stick around for a minute or two while they start climbing right back up
where they were, and sweep them down again.
This will often make them go somewhere else.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Another
way to clean up cobwebs is with a hard jet of water; this is probably more
effective than a web duster in shrubs, which are invaded only in dry weather,
and where it is impossible to sweep all the webs.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><i><span style="font-size: 8.0pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></i></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<i>7/24/2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To be
published on Yahoo Voices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<i>Join Garden Grants Pass in gardening classes at Greenwood
and Schroeder Dog Parks. </i></div>
<div align="center" style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>541-955-9040<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rycke@gardener.com</span></b></div>
Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-3576489259700875342013-07-29T07:45:00.000-07:002013-09-21T07:40:30.756-07:00Plants Love Misters<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Kids love
misters on a hot day; you can see it in the wet heads coming out of the Growers
Market. So do you, if you think about
it; in the dry heat, a fine mist makes it easier to breath.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The same goes for your plants,
particularly those that are hard to grow in our very dry, hot summers, like
blueberries. A mister nearby can make a
blueberry explode with growth. Every
other plant in the vicinity also breathes easier; nearly every plant loves higher
humidity than we have. On the other
hand, spider mites love dryness, and a mister prevents and gets rid of the
mites. A mister also shows up cobweb
spider webs, making them temporarily useless to the spider and showing them so
you can clean them up when they would otherwise be nearly invisible.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">A mister also cools its immediate
area, outdoor air conditioning that can make your indoor cooler work better,
and cool the hot west side of your house.
They take very little water, and it is not wasted by evaporation, since
evaporative cooling is the point.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><b>Right
now, Grover plumbing supply has free-standing misters for only $10 apiece, and
they also have individual misters on coiled, flexible tubes that can be
attached to a drip irrigation line to build a mister system that can cool your
entire yard.</b></span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Truly, water used for watering and
cooling is not wasted: besides watering plants, it humidifies and cools the
area. If enough people water lawns, it
creates thundershowers, which we had a lot of when we nearly all watered our
lawns in the 80’s. Now that most lawns
in this town are allowed to go dry every year, we have few thunderstorms, but a
lot of weeds and ugly yards. Watered,
mowed, and weeded grass is the best defense most people have against weeds.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347691/description/Watering_fields_in_California_boosts_rainfall_in_Southwest" target="_blank">A study has shown that irrigating farms in Southern California creates summer rain in Colorado and Arizona</a> and puts
more water in the Colorado River, which is used again for irrigating farms and
yards. Every bit of so-called “wasted”
evaporated water falls somewhere as rain; water cannot be wasted by watering
plants.</span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Our city got into the “save water”
eco-mindset a decade or so ago, raising rates on water use above basic
household use to discourage watering plants.
People started letting lawns go dry.
Since purifying river water is mostly overhead, the city had to raise
rates again to cover costs, and people used still less, starting our water
department on a downward spiral of higher rates causing less use causing still
higher rates. </span></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">The last
time they raised our rates, they raised the basic charge, not the per-gallon
rate above such use. If enough of us
would water our lawns, they could avoid raising rates to cover the new
earth-quake resistant plant that we have to build. If we have to build a new plant, we may as
well water our yards to do it, rather than just pay more per gallon.</span></span></span></div>
Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-45704386455692238772013-07-29T07:43:00.000-07:002013-08-14T10:15:06.979-07:00Petition to the Grants Pass City Council and Manager<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">WHEREAS a long-stated goal of the
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">WHEREAS the basic function of
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">WHEREAS uncontrolled weeds are an
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">WHEREAS enforcement of our weed
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">WHEREAS warning people to clean
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">WHEREAS the city charges 10% over
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">WHEREAS this profit is a
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">WHEREAS every hazardous property that
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">WHEREAS our Charter mandates
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: large;">THEREFORE, we, the undersigned
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direct our City Manager to eliminate the 10% administrative fee for hazardous
property abatement and have all public safety officers enforce weed and litter
nuisance codes on sight.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>This petition is available for signing and copies at the Growers Market political ghetto entrance between 10:30 AM and 1:00 PM Saturdays, and is being circulated door-to-door. </i></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Since I
started gardening professionally in Grants Pass, I have wanted to garden Grants
Pass, the whole city, though I know I can’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s just that it needs it so badly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So I’m starting a club called Garden Grants Pass, to do just that.</span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I didn’t
feel that way when I lived here for two years in the 80’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The town was a lot smaller and much cleaner
and neater in those days.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But 30 years
has doubled the population of this city and probably tripled its area, looking
at all the vacant lots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>40 years of not
enforcing nuisance codes regarding weeds and litter combined with 30 years of
expansion has turned this city into a weedy, seedy, littered mess.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ironically,
our city code mandates that every square foot of Grants Pass be gardened.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It forbids allowing weeds to mature and go to
seed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is gardening, which is
keeping order in outdoor spaces, and invariably involves weeding at some
point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Weeding is the essence of
gardening; everything else is optional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A Zen garden has no plants at all.</span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Not only
does our code mandate gardening, but our City Charter mandates that the City
Manager enforce all city codes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This has
obviously not been done, partly because the city makes no money enforcing
nuisance codes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People readily comply
when told by an officer to clean up a few weeds and a bit of litter, so no
citations are issued.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They are much less
likely to clean up a property so weedy and trashed that it is a safety hazard,
which the city can abate for 10% over cost, plus a heavy fine.</span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Property
nuisance codes also haven’t been enforced because developers, bankers, and
speculators controlled our city until the property bubble burst.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They don’t want to have to spend what it
takes to maintain their vacant properties to city standards.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The
property/housing bubble was partly fueled by that lack of enforcement, because
one could hold on to a property until one gets the price one thinks it’s worth,
without paying much more than property taxes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If people had to maintain property to code, the price would have to take
that maintenance into account, and they would sell for the market price to get
out from under it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lack of enforcement
has defeated the intent of the Urban Growth Boundary, which was to force infill
of vacant lots inside the city before expanding the city’s limits.</span></span></div>
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<br />
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Garden
Grants Pass will be holding free gardening classes (see other side) to train
people to garden their own yards and others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And we will be petitioning to end the 10% admin fee on abatements and
have all officers enforce nuisance codes on sight, so our entire city may be
gardened as our code demands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Earwigs
are a creepy nuisance at times, like when they crawl out of freshly picked
flowers or lettuce heads, but they are not a pest. They actually clean up fungal infections on
plants.</span></span></div>
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A typical earwig. Credit: animal.discovery.com</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">For
several years in this town, I found that one could not grow a hollyhock to
bloom without it becoming covered with an ugly rust by the time it
bloomed.<span> </span>I would cut them down when they
got ugly and let them re-grow to bloom later in the summer, when the rust is
not so prevalent.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>But one year, I didn’t see any rust on
my hollyhocks, and so didn’t cut them down.<span>
</span>As they were blooming, I was lying on the lawn one day, looking up at
them, and noticed that the leaves were full of tiny holes in the same pattern
as the rust would make, and so was a butterfly bush.<span> </span>That evening, I noticed earwigs climbing the
butterfly bush as it got dark, and put two and two together; the earwigs were
eating the rust before it made spores and became colorful.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>I had previously noticed that I had a
great many earwigs in my gardens and thought about various strategies for
getting rid of them, though I noticed no damage that I could attribute to
them.<span> </span>Now I realized that they were
actually useful, and stopped worrying about them.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>In Landscape Management at RCC, our
teacher pointed out that plant diseases like rust make typical damage patterns
that differ from those caused by plant-eating pests.<span> </span>After several years of observing such damage,
I was able to see the difference right away between pest damage and fungal
damage cleaned up by earwigs. <span> </span>Since
then, I have noticed earwig work on other plants with other fungi.</span></span></span></div>
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</span></span><div style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span> </span>Earwigs are just one of the many beneficial
insects that are encouraged by leaf mulch.<span>
</span>Many predators of plant pests live under mulch and rocks, along with
pests that they may or may not eat, like snails, slugs, grubs, and grasshoppers.<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span>A variety of soldier beetle common in Southern Oregon. Their color patterns vary widely. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Soldier
beetles eat aphids in April and May and then lay their eggs in mulch-covered
soil. Their velvety black larvae crawl under
the mulch for the rest of the year, eating a great many insect eggs and baby
bugs. You will rarely if ever see the
larvae; they are exceedingly shy. It’s
hard to even find photos of them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> <span style="font-size: small;">A ground beetle typical to Southern Oregon. Some are iridescent; some have big heads. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Ground
beetles, spiders and centipedes also hunt beneath the mulch. Leaves aren’t the only mulch they like, but
they are probably the best, apart from a tendency to be eaten up by worms, pill
bugs, millipedes and earwigs. Coarse
bark mulch can keep the soil covered when the soft leaves are eaten up. Keep your soil predators happy with good
mulch, and you will have few pest problems.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>7/6/2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Published on Yahoo Voices and landscape-supervisor.blogspot.com.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>541-955-9040<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rycke@gardener.com</span></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">5<sup>th</sup>
Speech to Networking Toastmasters, 6/3/2013</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Good morning, Toastmasters and Honored Guests:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Grants Pass’ top stated goal has long been, “to be a city
that looks safe and is safe.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What’s
wrong with that goal?</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I’ll tell you what’s wrong; that it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only</i> a goal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That our city
has been taking no real steps to attain it.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">What makes a city look safe?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I submit that it is cleanliness and order: clean streets, well kept properties;
no litter; no graffiti.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Order is
intimidating to the disorderly and lawless, comforting to the orderly and law
abiding.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Weeds, litter and filthy pavements, on the other hand, are encouraging
to low life and disturbing to respectable folks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disorderly property is worse than bad
advertising; it is downright dangerous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That’s why we have property nuisance codes.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In 1982, James Q. Wilson wrote an article for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Atlantic Monthly</i> about the disorder that
encourages crime.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He called it, <a href="http://www.manhattan-institute.org/pdf/_atlantic_monthly-broken_windows.pdf" target="_blank">“BrokenWindows.”</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has lent its name to a
policing philosophy which holds that, if we take care of disorderly nuisances
like broken windows, major crimes will be reduced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Take care of the little things,” they say, “and
the big things take care of themselves.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It has worked in New York and Cincinnati; it can work in Grants Pass.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He said that the things that aggravate us the most are not
major crimes, which rarely happen to us, but constant nuisances imposed on us
by thoughtless others, like barking dogs, litter and weeds—except that Wilson
wrote about broken windows, panhandlers and prostitutes, being a city boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nuisance codes were written to keep the peace,
by having our public nags, our city police, remind us to love one another so we
don’t drive each other nuts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Broken windows are several steps down the road to
disorder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Disorder starts with weeds
gone to seed, and tree trash left rotting on pavements.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Seedy” is a word that denotes neglect in property
or dress.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Litter soon follows, as people
add their ugly to ugliness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As gangsters
get comfortable, they start tagging their territories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kids looking for bad fun start breaking
windows and entering abandoned buildings, like the Dimmick hospital. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Disorderly vagrants throw litter around weedy places to see
if it gets old, or gets picked up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Old
litter means that a place is safe to camp in; no one cares, and good people
stay away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It marks their
territories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Ownership is control, and cleanliness also marks territory;
the territory of the law abiding and orderly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The way to take control of your city is to clean it up and keep it
clean, and thereby make it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">look</i> safe,
so it will <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be</i> safe.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Truly, it is kinder to warn one to clean up a bit of litter
and a few weeds, than to wait until it ripens into a major safety hazard that
is a huge, expensive hassle to clean up!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the latter is what our city has been doing for some time, and it
shows. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">After all, the city makes no money off of warning people to
clean up nuisances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it can abate
safety hazards for 10% over cost.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
see the occasional “notice of violation” sign on selected neglected properties
this time of year. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">But since nuisance codes are not enforced, more safety
hazards ripen than our code enforcers can harvest. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thus we had a forest fire, complete with
water drops, right off 7<sup>th</sup> Street two years ago, that started in the
weeds behind Burger King’s lot and roared up a hill into tall pines.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">In 2006, short-time-City-Manager David Frasher created a Code
Enforcement Office, and forbade police or firemen to enforce our codes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He apparently read our City Charter, which
mandates enforcement of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> city
ordinances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems that he started
Code Enforcement to create the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">appearance</i>
of enforcing city codes while making it the place where <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">property nuisance</i> complaints go to die.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">He soon renamed them “Community Service Officers” or CSOs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They “serve and protect” property slobs, developers,
and bankers, not neighbors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">They enforce city codes</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">only by complaint—and then tell the slobs
who complained about their property</i>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve had a couple of neighbors in my face
because of them.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">It can be a dangerous job to ask a disorderly person to
clean up his property or to complain to police about him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s why nuisance codes must be enforced on
sight, and all officers trained to spot violations and warn violators.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Right now, our police are citing people for crimes that they
should be jailed for, while being forbidden to cite nuisance code violators.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please ask the Council and Manager to eliminate
the Community Service Code Enforcement Office and train <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">all</i> of our police to use their citation power where it will be most
effective, to nag our residents and landowners to obey our nuisance codes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we can really <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">be</i> “a city that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">looks</i>
safe and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> safe.”</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 14.5pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I have started a petition to do just that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please sign it after the meeting.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 15.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">I yield the floor to the Toastmaster.</span></div>
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<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>541-955-9040<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rycke@gardener.com</span></b></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">See the services of the Landscape Supervisor at
landscape-supervisor.blogspot.com.</span></i></div>
Rycke Brownhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09740985764499785564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-567462582306170833.post-88361384724574871042013-07-02T08:49:00.001-07:002013-09-21T07:24:33.266-07:00Learn Gardening for Free; Earn a T-shirt <div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Gardening is keeping order in the
landscape, and it is mostly killing disorderly plants, otherwise known as
weeding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This distinguishes gardening
from mere landscape maintenance, which really doesn’t maintain property well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">One can
garden by weeding alone; everything else is optional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mulching stops a lot of weeds, but it never
stops them all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mowing annuals and many
perennial weeds doesn’t stop them from going to seed under the mower
blades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the end, the only way to get
rid of weeds is to weed them out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Our county
and city parks, and our city generally, could use a lot more gardening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our landscape maintenance crews often don’t
include any weeders, at least partly because the contractors can’t find enough people
willing to do it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">It may be
that they are looking for the wrong kind of employee.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The no-weeder crews employ a lot of tall,
broad-shouldered young men who are not built for stoop work; they often don’t
even pick up the litter before mowing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We need more obsessive-compulsive short people, particularly women, to garden
Grants Pass and allow us all to obey our weed code, which forbids allowing
weeds to mature (flower) and go to seed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Our code
is a guide; we can stop weeds from going to seed by pulling them as they
flower.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the point of flowering, most
weeds become easier to see and pull or cut out of the ground, and it stops them
from going to seed and spreading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">People in
need of employment can, with minimal tools and a little training, go from door
to door, asking owners of weedy properties if they’d like their weeds
pulled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many would be happy to be asked;
the rest need a clue.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can easily go
into the weeding business for yourself and work your way up to a full-service
gardening business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Or, with training,
you can find work on a crew and get a regular paycheck.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Weeding
has its tricks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Different weeds and
types of weeds have different easiest ways to kill them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thirteen years of professional gardening have
taught me many of these tricks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Therefore, Garden Grants Pass is starting free
weeding classes in Greenwood Dog Park, 1200 SW Greenwood Avenue, on Friday
mornings from 8:00 to 9:00 AM, and at Schroeder Park’s Dog Park, 605 Schroeder
Lane, at the north end of Willow Lane, on Saturdays from 8:00 to 9:00 AM. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Do 6
classes, and you earn a T-shirt with “Garden Grants Pass” on the front and
“Greenwood Weeders” or “Schroeder Weeders” on the back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can earn a year’s Josephine County Park
pass for 8 hours of work in its parks, including weeding Schroeder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please come to my classes and pick my brain.</span></span></div>
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<i>Revised 7-18-2013<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Published on Linked In.</i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>541-955-9040<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rycke@gardener.com</span></b></div>
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