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8 in other words august18 2016 Diggin’ in the Dirt: Garden Topics Food Preservation Class in St. Helens Back by popular demand are our summer food preservation classes. These classes are great for both the beginner and experienced canner. Classes will be held in St. Helens at the Columbia Soil & Water Conservation District building. Class size is limited to allow for hands-on involvement in the kitchen. The final class will be on Saturday, August 27, 9 am to 1 pm – Pressure Canning Low-Acid Foods. Cost to attend is $30 per class. A small number of scholarships are available. Payment must be made in advance to hold your spot. Contact the OSU Extension Service – Columbia County office at (503) 397-3462 to register or online at http:// extension.oregonstate.edu/columbia. OSU Master Gardener™ class to be held is Vernonia starting next February The 2017 edition of the OSU Master Gardener™ class will be held in Vernonia starting on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 and continuing for 11 successive Tuesdays. The class will run from 9:30 am until 3:15 pm. It will be held at the new Community Health Center. Cost of the class will be $80. For more information or to sign up, contact our office at (503) 397-3462 or email either me at chip.bubl@oregonstsate.edu or Vicki Krenz at vicki.krenz@oregonstate. edu. We will need 15 students to hold the class and the room probably won’t hold Bt works if applied often enough. So more than 25. does spinosad, and also row covers if the eggs aren’t already present. Finally, the Garden topics cucumber beetle is most damaging on Elusive yellow jackets: Wet young seedlings. It looks vaguely like springs usually portend lower nesting a bright yellow ladybeetle, but with 12 success for yellow jackets. This past spots. They are hard to manage, but feel spring was mixed with some very hot free to squish them when you see them. days followed by a period of damp and Time to plant for winter eating: cool ones. It is possible that nest building Start getting your winter kale, lettuce, didn’t start until later than normal and chard, arugula, carrots, and spinach in that the yellow jacket population is still the ground as soon as possible. They expanding to the in-your-face numbers have to grow enough before cold, wet more common in August. We shall see. winter days arrive to provide you with Vegetable insects of note: some fresh produce in the coming the most common vegetable insect months. questions that have come into the office Brown spots in lawns: Brown involve the 12 spotted cucumber beetle, spots showing up in lawns are probably the cabbage butterfly (the ubiquitous caused by one of the following (most white one), and the beet/chard/spinach likely first): dry spots caused by leaf miner. The leaf miner fly lays her compacted soil, sand, septic system eggs on a beet family leaf and the teensy drain field, rocks, etc.; spring feeding of maggot burrows between the upper and the European crane fly; mole tunneling; lower surfaces of the leaf, eating out and red thread fungus damage. all the juicy bits. This leaves a papery, Dead spruce tree leaders: Spruce brown blotch on the leaf and, if you trees are often attacked by the white pine look carefully, little beads of insect weevil. The insect lays an egg in the frass (aka poop) between the upper and base of the new leader growth and the lower surfaces. The rest of the leaf is still larva feed in the cambium, causing the good to eat with a little clipping. Row terminal to die. A new leader will take covers can keep the fly from laying her over in time but often they also succumb eggs if she hasn’t already. Insecticides over successive seasons. This accounts containing spinosad (some forms have for the very rounded top appearance that an organic label) can help. The cabbage many Colorado blue spruce trees exhibit. butterfly is actively laying her precious Our native Sitka spruce is also a target eggs on the undersides of the leaves. for this insect. Controls (and there aren’t They hatch into a very hungry green many that really work) must be applied caterpillar that can eat out large chunks in April/May. of a leaf. With high numbers, there can be a lot of loss. The bacterial insecticide Food Safety or Food Preservation TOO BUSY? VERNONIA Call your LOCAL bookkeeper C H I RO P R AC T I C C L I N I C, I NC. VernoniaChiro.com R Y O A LL PL P US LLC Joseph Dombek, DC (971) 248-4055 Now Accepting New Patients 610 Bridge Street • Vernonia, OR 97064 Edi Sheldon 503-429-1819 edisheldon@gmail.com Licensed tax consultant • Full service payroll Personal & small business bookkeeping • QuickBooks assistance CORPS, S-CORPS, LLC, Partnerships • Personal one-on-one service The IRS does not endorse any particular individual tax return preparer. For more information on tax return preparers, go to www.IRS.gov. DM an e rm Polife and County personnel are required to use a rotation of available providers, UNLESS YOU SPECIFICALLY ASK for a servife by name. REQUEST TOWING SERVICE FROM Shop Hours: Mon - Fri 9:00 - 6:00 The Extension Service offers its programs and materials equally to all people. Free Newsletter The Oregon State University Extension office in Columbia County publishes a monthly newsletter on gardening and farming topics (called County Living) written/edited by yours truly. All you need to do is ask for it and it will be mailed to you. Call (503) 397- 3462 to be put on the list. Alternatively, you can sign up for email notification of when to find the latest edition on the web at http://extension.oregonstate.edu/ columbia/. Contact information for the Extension office Oregon State University Extension Service – Columbia County 505 N. Columbia River Highway (across from the Legacy clinic) St. Helens, OR 97051 (503) 397-3462 Email: chip.bubl@oregonstate.edu D Vernonia Dental D Take excess produce to the food bank, senior centers, or community meals programs. Cash donations to buy food are also greatly appreciated. Vernonia’s Voice is published twice each month on the 1st and 3rd Thursday. Look for our next issue September 1. LTC #29629 - Oregon licensed tax consultant RTRP #P00448199 - designated as a registered tax return preparer by the Internal Revenue Service FOR TOWING EMERGENCIES IN AND AROUND THE VERNONIA AREA Questions? OSU Extension Service Has Answers. Are you planning to preserve food from your garden or purchased from a farm this summer? If so, call or visit the OSU Extension Service office before you start canning, freezing, or drying. Costly and potentially harmful mistakes can be made by using outdated canning recipes and instructions. You can find free publications at the Columbia County Extension office located at 505 N. Columbia River Highway in St. Helens (across from the Legacy Clinic). If you have questions, phone the office at (503) 397-3462. You can download for free all our food preservation publications at http://extension.oregonstate.edu/fch/ food-preservation. An additional great resource is the National Center for home Food Preservation at http://www.uga. edu/nchfp/. h . r C r h p o is t M er . h S c eu 622 Bridge Street Vernonia, OR 97064 phone (503) 429-0880 -- fax (503) 429-0881 For fast cash! 010412 By Chip Bubl Oregon State University Extension Service - Columbia County 2245 Baseline St., Cornelius (Across from Fred Meyer) 503-530-8119 State Licensed PB-0388 Open everyday at 9 a.m.
