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Newspaper Page TextSILVERTONAPPEAL.COM ܂ WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 2018 ܂ 3B To-do list to get garden ready for winter Gardening Carol Savonen Guest columnist Question: Since we have had such a nice fall, I realize I am way behind get- ting my garden ready for winter. Can you give me a list of the basics, so I can make sure I get some of the right things done before the big rains come? Answer: Control the weeds that have newly germinated. Next year’s weeds often get their start in the fall. It is a much eas- ier job now than in the spring. A hoe or hand pulling will do it. This is not a good time of year to use herbicides. Damp soil makes it easy to hoe or pull weeds, big or little. Put your beds to bed. After remov- ing weeds, dead and tired plants and debris from your vegetable garden beds, plant late germinating cover crops such as fava beans or Austrian ﬁeld peas. Or mulch them. Cover crops or mulch will protect your soil from erosion and com- paction from months of rainfall. Cover crops and mulch will add organic matter to the soil. Cover crops add signiﬁcant nitrogen to the soil. Both mulch and cov- er crops will keep weed germination down. Cut back late ﬂowering perennials like asters and chrysanthemums to a few inches. Peonies can be cut back all the way to the ground. Mulch the crowns with compost to protect them from hard freezes. Leave those ﬂowers with seed heads, including sunﬂowers and coneﬂowers for the birds. Prune late summer and fall ﬂowering butterﬂy bush (Buddleia) now to get rid of seeds, which spread noxiously. Other shrubs This raised bed is ready for the winter with a mixed cover crop planted on it. The dog and the protective mesh over the bed keep the wild turkeys from feeding on the cover crop. CAROL SAVONEN/ SPECIAL TO THE STATESMAN JOURNAL can either be pruned now or later, in mid-February after coldest winter tem- peratures have passed. Cut back overgrown roses to a cou- ple feet in height. I wait to fully prune my roses until they are dormant in De- cember. Dig and store summer ﬂowering bulbs and tubers including dahlias, calla and canna lilies, gladiolus and tuberoses if you want to be sure to keep them alive until next year. Store them in a dark, dry and cool (above freezing) place, safe from rodents. Refrain from applying fertilizer to trees, ﬂowers or shrubs this time of year, as it may reduce their cold tolerance. Mulch your rhubarb plant with or- ganic matter and well-rotted manure to assure a good crop next spring. If your rhubarb is crowded and well estab- lished, October is a good time to reno- vate your plant, a task that needs to be done only every few years. Drive the blade of a shovel down through the mid- dle of the plant. Then remove half of the plant, crown, roots and all. Then ﬁll the hole with compost, rotted manure, or fertilizer mixed with organic matter. Plant the removed half plant to another spot or give it to a friend. Protect asparagus beds with a layer of mulch such as four to six inches of chopped leaves, weed-free straw, hay or similar materials. Next spring, remove the mulch from half of the bed. The as- paragus will come up more quickly where the mulch is removed and the mulched section will come up later, thus extending your asparagus season. Take the mulch oﬀ soon after spears begin emerging, otherwise, they will curl over. Add some nitrogen fertilizer in the spring. Clip back the largest artichoke ro- sette (the one that bore artichoke ﬂow- ers to the ground. Cover it with 6 inches or more of mulch, compost or leaves. If there are “pups” coming up around the mother plant, protect the pups as well. Take away the mulch after most danger of frost has passed in the spring. Carol Savonen is a naturalist and writer. She is an associate professor emeritus at OSU and tends a large gar- den in the Coast Range Hills west of Phi- lomath with her husband and dogs. She can be reached at Carol.Savonen@ore- gonstate.edu or c/o: EESC, 422 Kerr Ad- min. Bldg., OSU, Corvallis, OR 97331. Timeline of Judge Vance Day’s time on the bench Whitney Woodworth Salem Statesman Journal USA TODAY NETWORK The saga of Marion County Judge Vance Day’s time in the public eye, eth- ics investigations and suspension spans several years. Now that the criminal charges against Day have been dropped, here is a look back at his controversial time as a Marion County judge. August 2011: Day is appointed by Gov. John Kitzhaber to serve as position 5 judge in Marion County, Oregon’s 3rd Judicial District. October 2012: Day’s behavior toward a referee at his son’s soccer raises some eyebrows. The Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability goes on to inves- tigate his alleged bullying of the referee. November 2012: Running unop- posed, Day is elected to a full, six-year term as Marion County judge. 2013: Day begins presiding over Mar- ion County’s Veterans Treatment Court June 2013: Veteran Navy SEAL Brian Shehan appears before Day and pleads guilty to felony DUI November 2013: While Shehan works at Day’s daughter’s house, Day allegedly allows Shehan to handle a gun hidden in a secret compartment in a cabinet. January 2014: While Day and his son ﬁx a stove at Shehan’s residence, Day al- legedly allows him to handle a pistol. Shehan informs court staﬀ of the gun- handling incident the next day. Summer 2014: Day allegedly in- structs his staﬀ to screen out same-sex couples asking him to oﬃciate their weddings August 2014: Day self-reports the in- cident to the commission. November 2014: Day removes him- self from the Marion County list of wed- ding oﬃciants. November 2015: The commission holds a two-week hearing to investigate Day’s conduct. January 2016: The Commission on Judicial Fitness and Disability votes unanimously to recommend removing Day from the bench. November 2016: Criminal charges are ﬁled against Day stemming from the ﬁrearms handling incidents with She- han. June 2017: The Oregon Supreme Court reviews the misconduct case against Day. 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