in other words
july18
2013
Diggin’ in the Dirt: Bee Deaths
By Chip Bubl
Oregon State University
Extension Service - Columbia County
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• 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
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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. As a society, we need to be a Email: chip.bubl@oregonstate.edu
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