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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
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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,
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Contact information for the Extension
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505 N. Columbia River Highway (across
from the Legacy clinic)
St. Helens, OR 97051
(503) 397-3462
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Take excess produce to the food bank,
senior centers, or community meals
programs. Cash donations to buy food
are also greatly appreciated.
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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/.
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