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in other words july18 2013 Diggin’ in the Dirt: Bee Deaths By Chip Bubl Oregon State University Extension Service - Columbia County • Free Pressure Canner Gauge Testing (call ahead before bringing in your gauge) • Food Preservation and Food Safety Vernonia “Canning Tomatoes and Hotline from July through October Salsas” Class 1-800-354-7319 OSU Extension Service of • A list of our hands-on canning classes Columbia Co. is offering a hands-on class can be found on our website: http:// on safe methods of preserving tomatoes extension.oregonstate.edu/columbia and salsas at home. Participants will practice making and canning a recipe in Garden topics the kitchen. Space is limited, so call soon • Garlic should be ready to harvest soon. to reserve your spot! Pre-registration is Dig and then dry the bulbs with the tops required. Scholarships are available for on in a shady, well-ventilated place. those who need financial assistance. They should be ready for storage after a Where: Vernonia Community month. They can be eaten anytime. Church. 967 State Ave, Vernonia, • The heat wave several weeks ago OR 97064 sunburned some raspberries and When: Saturday August 24th, 2013 developing apples and possibly damaged Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm the trunks of some young trees. Maintain Cost: $20.00 / person a good watering schedule on all new Contact: OSU Extension Service to woody landscape and garden plants Register: 503-397-3462 throughout the rest of this summer. • You can plant cabbage family, leeks, If you have a physical disability that beans, and other crops for late summer/ requires special consideration in order fall eating. for you to attend, please notify our office • Poor carrot and parsnip crops (stunted, by Aug. 19th. misshapen, etc.) are usually due to one of the following: failure to thin such that Food preservation and food safety no carrot plant gets enough light to make Want to learn how to safely a good root; rocky or heavy clay soils preserve produce from your garden which cause root distortion and forking; this summer? The OSU Extension inconsistent watering; and too much Service in Columbia County offers food nitrogen. preservation information and resources. • Both spotted wing drosophila Here is a list of services that we provide: (on blackberries, blueberries, and • Free Printed Publications and Safe raspberries) and the various apple pests Canning Recipes are active now. Products containing • Online Publications and Recipes: spinosad are probably the best home http://extension.oregonstate.edu/fch/ garden crop protection choice (there are food-preservation 17 organic forms of this product). Always little more insect tolerant and be willing read and follow all pesticide label to use less toxic management strategies. instructions. For more information on the incident and the pulled products, go to the ODA Bee death and the “Neo-nics” web site: http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/ A few weeks ago, the Oregon PEST/Pages/Pollinator.aspx . For neo- State Department of Agriculture took the nicotinoid impacts on pollinators, go to unusual step of removing all home garden the Xerces Society: http://www.xerces. products that contain one compound org/. from a class of insecticides called neo-nicotinoids from store shelves. In Plant a few extra rows of vegetables addition, they banned the commercial for your non-gardening friends and landscape use of that compound for at neighbors and for the food bank. least 180 days. ODA may review other insecticides in the same class for their The Extension Service offers its potential pollinator impacts. programs and materials equally to all The reason for this action was people. the massive bee die-off at two sites, one in Wilsonville and one in Hillsboro, from Free newsletter the possible commercial use of one of The Oregon State University these systemic insecticides (dinotefuran Extension office in Columbia County sold as Safari). There were probably publishes a monthly newsletter on other sites that simply went unnoticed. gardening and farming topics (called Of particular concern is that these County Living) written/edited by yours products are very persistent within plant truly. All you need to do is ask for it and it tissue and very damaging to pollinators. will be mailed to you. Call 503 397-3462 In one case, the product had been applied to be put on the list. Alternatively, you in March (probably as a soil injection, can find it on the web at http://extension. surface application, or trunk spray to oregonstate.edu/columbia/ and click on dormant trees) and bee die-off was seen newsletters. when the trees started flowering in mid- June. Contact information for the Extension I have been concerned for some office time about another compound in the same Oregon State University Extension chemical class, imidacloprid, which Service – Columbia County has similar characteristics and is also 505 N. Columbia River Highway (across available to home gardeners in several from the Legacy clinic) forms. It is probably time for gardeners St. Helens, OR 97051 to stop using these insecticides in all 503 397-3462 their forms. 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