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CHICKENS AND VEGGIES: The Lee Road branch of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Library offers the following classes on gardening and raising chickens. Both are at 7 p.m. , free and registration is required; call (216) 932-3600. The library is located at 2345 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights.
Monday, March 24: Garden Planning by Plant Type. Learn how to grow plants in three plant families – alliums (garlic and onions), brassicales (cabbage, kale and collards) and solanales (tomatoes and peppers).
Monday, March 31: Backyard Chicken Keeping: A representative from the city of Cleveland Heights and Cleveland Heights residents who raise chickens discuss city regulations and tips.
EASTER DECOR: If you’re feeling crafty when thinking about Easter, now is the time to start making stuff. You’ll find instructions for making vases out of hollowed-out eggshells, kids’ crafts, DIY Easter baskets, centerpieces and more at this Martha Stewart web page.
TIMELY TIPS: The gardening experts at Fiskars, which makes lawn and garden tools, offer these tips for prepping for spring gardening:
1. Draw up a garden plan to be sure that you’re using your available space in the best way. Fiskars garden expert Dee Nash shares tips on how to get started with a simple garden plan.
2. Decide which seeds to start indoors and which seeds will be sown directly in the ground outdoors. Fiskars garden expert Robin Haglund helps identify which seeds to get growing and which to save for planting outside after the threat of frost.
3. Take inventory of tools and supplies, and make a list of what needs to be replaced or replenished.
TESTING SPEAKERS: Wireless speakers, which allow you to stream music into any room of the house, are gaining in popularity. Many Wi-Fi speaker systems can be linked together to work in a multichannel setup.
Consumer Reports recently evaluated the Play:1 speaker from Sonos, the SoundTouch 20 from Bose and Samsung’s Shape M7 on performance, functions and price. Here’s what the testers found.
This year’s San Francisco Flower and Garden Show, from Wednesday to next Sun is shaping up to be a timely event, spurred by topics like the drought, California natives and a greater emphasis on domestically and sustainably grown flowers, specifically from California.
The show’s new Flower Pavilion Stage is spearheaded by Debra Prinzing, author of seven books, including “The 50-Mile Bouquet,” and the nation’s leading advocate for American-grown flowers. Prinzing, along with the California Cut Flower Commission and new flower show owners Maryanne Lucas and Sherry Larsen, has created a forum where visitors can watch demos from leading floral designers and learn about the benefits of using domestic and California cut flowers.
We connected with Prinzing to find out more about her role and what to expect at this year’s show.
Q:How did you get involved in the show?
A: Maryanne and Sherry came to me and asked me to be the floral adviser last summer, and I had a lot of time to approach some of my favorite floral designers and ask them to participate. None of them had ever participated before, so it was the perfect opportunity for these florists that are featured in national and regional publications to connect with show visitors. I’ve had the chance to develop curriculum that is brand new to the show.
Q:What are some of the Flower Pavilion Stage highlights?
A: Each day has a theme. Wednesday is San Francisco Style with popular florists like Max Gill, Studio Choo and Natasha Lisitsa presenting demos; Thursday is Meet the Flower Farmer with J Schwanke hosting several small and large California flower farmers and talking about the cut flower industry; Friday is Succulently Yours with people like author Debra Lee Baldwin and Lila B. Flowers Events designer Baylor Chapman emphasizing succulents in wedding and centerpiece design; Saturday is Meet the Experts/Authors, with experts like Francoise Weeks speaking about her cultlike following of botanical couture; and Sunday is DIY Bouquet Designs with Stefani Bittner and Pilar Zuniga demo-ing eco-friendly edible and alternative bouquets.
Q:Explain your relationship with the California Cut Flower Commission and its participation with the show.
A: The California Cut Flower Commission and I have been mutually aligned for some time. They have been very supportive of my new venture, at www.slowflowers.com, and are an in-kind sponsor of the event and will be providing a lot of product for the speakers. The majority of the flowers used on the stage will come from California, with a few items sourced domestically for other parts of the show. All of the speakers were already big supporters of California-grown flowers.
Q:Bay Area florists appear to be on the cutting edge of floral design. Do you agree?
A: Yes! California’s growing climate is so benign and there is such abundance that there’s no reason to use anything other than California flowers. My florist friends in Minneapolis are envious and tell me that they wish they had access to 12 months of flowers. I’m finding that even florists from colder climates are now sourcing from their local farms when they can and using California flowers when they have to source outside of their growing region.
Q:Any of the speakers addressing some emerging trends?
A: Stefani Bittner, co-owner of Star Apple Edible Gardens and co-author of “The Beautiful Edible Garden,” will be creating edible bouquets on Sunday that are easy and so creative. As a tradition she makes an edible bouquet for her landscape clients from the trimmings of her installed gardens. The company specializes in using and highlighting the ornamental qualities of edibles in landscape design. Things like kumquats and herbs can be put in a vase and put on display.
Q:The San Francisco Flower and Garden Show is the third largest in the nation. How does the expanded flower presence compare to the other top shows like Philadelphia and Seattle?
A: There’s a lot of collaboration from industry professionals and designers. The other shows don’t have as large a presence regarding hands-on floral display. It’s more than just placing arrangements on a pedestal. This show puts a big emphasis on education. I’m all for highlighting growing your own flowers and putting them on display in your own home.
San Francisco Flower and Garden Show
Wednesday-next Sunday, San Mateo Event Center. Adult day ticket $20; all-show pass (five days pass) $30. (415) 684-7278. www.sfgardenshow.com.
Sophia Markoulakis is a Burlingame freelance writer. E-mail: home@sfchronicle.com
If your planting is attracting bees, butterflies and other wildlife, your shed is devoid of pesticides and your fruit and veg are strictly organic, then you are already heading along the right road to eco-friendliness.
But follow these 10 simple tips and you could get even further, even faster.
1. Plant bright flowers such as candytuft, sunflowers and marigolds, to encourage beneficial insects like ladybirds and lacewings. These will eat aphids such as blackfly, which can decimate your flowers and crops. Bluebells, cowslips, foxgloves and primroses are all wildflowers to add colour and beauty to any garden. Buy flowers that will bloom as late into the autumn as possible, to allow more beneficial bugs and bees plenty of time to pollinate.
2. Invest in a water butt. Even better, blend it in with your garden scheme by building a wooden casing around it and painting it, suggests DIY power tool experts Dremel (www.dremel.co.uk). Alternatively, buy an old wine barrel as an attractive alternative and customise it so you can fill a watering can. Wooden water butts need to stand above ground level, allowing the wood to breathe from beneath.
3. Create your own makeshift mulch. If you have collected leaves to make leaf mould over the years, this will act as a great mulch in spring. Alternatively, use compost, bark or garden clippings which have been shredded.
4. Consider ‘companion planting’ to ward off predators. Many plant combinations mask each other with scent. The smell of Tagetes (French marigolds) will deter whitefly, while garlic and other alliums have been used as companions to keep pests at bay. Trailing nasturtiums repel woolly aphids, while bugle extract repels cabbage white caterpillars. In a similar way, leeks repel carrot flies, okra shields peppers from wind, while tall crops provide a canopy for short ones, such as lettuce and spinach, which prefer partial shade in the heat.
5. Recycle everyday packaging to use in your garden. Plastic cartons which have held pre-packed veg can be adapted as seed trays, yoghurt pots which have been thoroughly cleaned can be used to raise seedlings and larger plastic bottles with the bottoms cut off can work as makeshift cloches around young vulnerable plants. Large wooden crates can be used to store fruit and veg later on in the season.
6. Set up a worm compost bin if you only have a small space, and make a home for some small, red tiger worms, which you can buy. Use a wooden box with holes and a lid for a worm compost bin., add a layer of moist, shredded newspaper and soil for their bedding, then feed them once a week with vegetable peelings wrapped in newspaper or paper towels. Every two or three months, the rich, fine compost will be ready to use.
7. Use solar power to light the path to your front door. Solar lights fixed into the ground store energy at low cost in the daytime and light the way to your front door in the dark. Cut niches into your paving stones by using a compact saw or plant them either side of your path in the garden borders.
8. Make a compost bin if you don’t already have one. To make a simple wooden compost bin simply cut wooden slats to size and screw them together at right angles. Sand down any sharp edges or splintered wood, then prepare your compost by layering grass cuttings, leaves and natural waste from your kitchen (such as paper, cardboard and vegetable peelings) and turn regularly. Once the waste has rotted, it should be an ideal supply to mix with your garden top soil.
9. Charge battery-powered equipment the smart way. If your garden tools are battery-powered, bear in mind that the prices charged for electricity may vary at different times of the day and night. Once you have the details you can start saving money by charging batteries during off-peak hours. Additionally, lithium-ion batteries retain their charge even if they haven’t been used for some time.
10. Minimise your non-permeable hard landscaping, such as pavers set in concrete. Create boundaries with hedging rather than fencing if you can.
Warmer days are on their way, finally, which means it’s time to start thinking about cleaning up your yard and getting ready for the coming spring gardening season.
If you’re serious about having a great garden and want to top last year’s, getting things ready early in the season will help put you on the right path to having the best garden in the neighborhood.
Planning Is Key
Before you start flinging soil like there’s no tomorrow, set out your vision for the season. What do you want to plant, and where should you plant it? Do you want to start growing more vegetables? Write it all down so you don’t forget your goals as the summer passes.
Tool Time
Prepping for spring gardening gives you the perfect excuse to hang out in the shop and get all your tools ready for the season. Use boiled linseed oil to treat and protect wood handles, and use a wire brush to clean any rust from the metal parts. Clean any tools that have moving parts by using turpentine and then denatured alcohol to get rid of the turpentine residue. Finally, use a file to sharpen any blades, and grease or oil any moving parts to keep them working their best.
Bring in the Cleanup Crew
Spring is the time to set the right conditions so your garden can take off as soon as the weather warms up. One of the most important things you can do for your garden now is tidy up any debris left over from the winter. Clear any leaves or other debris from your perennial gardens, because that can choke out your flowers before they get a chance to bloom. Also, get rid of any branches or stems on shrubs and plants that may have been damaged over the winter. Leaving these on can make it harder for your plants to get started.
It’s also a good idea to lay down mulch on your perennial beds in the spring. A layer of aged pine, hardwood, or hemlock mulch will help keep a consistent soil temperature, regulate moisture, ward off weeds, and add nutrients to your soil as the mulch decomposes.
It’s best to prune most trees when they’re still in the dormant phase, before they start to sprout leaves or flowers. You can do this in winter, but at the very latest it should be part of your spring gardening routine. Pruning your trees regularly is important because it will help them produce more flowers and fruits while also helping ward off pests and diseases.
Prep Your Soil
Winter weeds probably will be poking their heads up in your garden soil already, so pull them as soon as possible and move them far away. If you leave them too long, they will flower, produce seeds, and multiply.
After you’ve waded through the weeds, add some fertilizer and mix it into the soil. Get more info here.
Get Planting
If you have a vegetable garden, it’s time to get those beds in shape and put your spring crops in. Foods such as spinach, leeks, onions, and parsley can be planted as soon as the frosts are over, which is usually by April in northern climates.
Putting some time in up front can make things a lot easier down the road and set you up for a successful gardening season. So spend some time following these spring gardening tips, and you’ll see the results all year long.
Eye of the Day’s booth at the San Francisco Flower and Garden Show.
Eye of the Day is so excited to be sponsoring this highly respected show, especially since our containers are part of the entry area.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 20, 2014
Eye of the Day Garden Design Center was recently asked to sponsor the entry display at the San Francisco Flower Garden Show (SFFGS), held at the San Mateo Event Center from March 19 to March 23. Eye of the Day is also showcasing items from its first-ever Fermob U.S. “Shop in Shop” in their booth at the show, and is hosting consumer giveaways throughout the show.
The San Francisco Flower Garden Show is a mainstream event for florists, gardeners, landscape architects, and anyone else interested in exactly that – flowers and gardens – and draws in crowds with a wide variety of backgrounds. According to the event website, the gardens at the show use more than 1,200 cubic yards of sawdust and mulch, as well as 280,000 pounds of rock for the displays. Exhibits and vendors from all over the state compose juried garden displays, and the event also hosts seminars for educational purposes.
“Eye of the Day is so excited to be sponsoring this highly respected show, especially since our containers are part of the entry area,” said owner Brent Freitas. “We are welcoming attendees with displays showcasing our European clay and terracotta pottery, and we also have a booth on the main floor as well.”
Eye of the Day, which recently updated its website, works with top manufacturers and distributors from all over the world, collecting fine pottery from Italy, Greece, and France. Collections include those of the classic and colorful Gladding McBean, as well as Greek pithari, Mediterranean oil jars, and more. Eye of the Day works with the individual residential consumer, as well as with landscape architects for commercial use, such as Ralph Lauren and Tommy Bahama — both past clients.
“If you’re in the area,” said Freitas. “Drop by and say hello to us! We’ll also be giving away items, so there’s a chance you’ll be leaving with an unexpected gift or two. Also, come by and learn how to cultivate your garden with tips of the trade, like how to deal with the regional San Francisco weather.”
About Eye of the Day Garden Design Center
Eye of the Day Garden Design Center is a retail showroom that features more than an acre of high quality garden landscape products, including Italian terracotta pottery and fountains, Greek terracotta pottery, French Anduze pottery, and garden product manufacturers from America’s premier concrete garden pottery and decoration manufacturers. Eye of the Day is a leading importer and distributor of fine European garden pottery, and caters to private consumers, as well as landscape design and architecture firms from around the world.
A northwest Phoenix area is ready to move to its next chapter after a two-decade slide into blight.
The City Council on March 19 unanimously approved the North Mountain Redevelopment Area plan, which will shape a 2,500-acre site over a decade. The plan outlines a set of goals and strategies for land uses, upgraded infrastructure and public transportation to the area, roughly 10 miles northwest of downtown Phoenix.
The redevelopment area stretches into several council districts. Metrocenter mall is its high-profile landmark.
“It (Metrocenter) had the potential of turning into a slum,” said District 1 Councilwoman Thelda Williams. “Now, it will bring confidence to neighbors, businesses and will bring potential retailers seeking space inside the mall.”
When the council designated the area a blight using state laws in February 2013, it asked residents, businesses and other stakeholders what they would like to see it become. The council asked for economic development, light-rail extension, such recreational amenities as swimming pools, college campuses and a cleanup.
District 3 Councilman Bill Gates said word is out about the designation and that businesses are inquiring.
“In meetings as recently as last week, we have had real-estate brokers interested in learning more about the area, the designation and what it ultimately means,” Gates said. “We have also had a group approach the city and is working to install a frisbee golf course in the area.”
History of area
The area’s boundary is 19th and 15th avenues on the east; Alice Avenue, Butler Drive and the Arizona Canal on the south; 35th Avenue on the west;and Cholla Street, Sahuaro and Peoria avenues on the north.
The area is home to such landmarks as the Rose Mofford Sports Complex, the Arizona Canal and the Phoenix Mountains Preserve. It is home to 26,000 people, according to the plan.
It also has 300 businesses, including Metrocenter, which opened in the early 1970s as growth marched to the northwest. The mall and surrounding area thrived until about the early 1990s, when the demographics and housing began to change.
The Great Recession pushed the area into greater decline, city officials said. Retail was hit hard as major retail outlets shuttered at Metrocenter.
According to the plan, the average retail vacancy rate between Peoria and Dunlap avenues and Interstate 17 and 35th Avenue is 28 percent. Citywide, the rate is 12.4 percent.
Vacant buildings attract graffiti, and a lack of property maintenance causes blight, hindering investment, according to the report.
About the plan
The goals of the plan are to bring private investment and development to the area, market underused property, get rid of blight, upgrade infrastructure and create jobs.
“It’s a multiyear effort,” said Alan Stephenson, Phoenix’s Planning and Development Department’s acting director. “There are no set time frames for it and no set cost for it. It’s not redeveloping one site. … It’s a multiple-year action plan for the community to revitalize the area.”
The city’s role would be to do such things as improve parks and provide lighting for parking lots, he said.
Redevelopment can turn controversial, especially if it calls for condemning property and uprooting residents. Many times, those residents are from middle-class or low-income areas, according to national publications.
The North Mountain plan is not expected to take such an approach.
“The city is not going to condemn any private property as a result of the plan,” Stephenson said. “We do not have the legal authority to condemn private property and then turn it over to other interests for redevelopment anymore.”
The draft plan also proposes to raise taxes to pay for services. A city services district, for example, would impose a special property tax to bolster public safety, fire protection, refuse collection or landscape maintenance.
Since the council declared the area blighted nearly a year ago, the city staff has identified possible funding sources to help cover costs, Stephenson said. They include low-interest loans, design-assistance grants and support from government partners, private and quasi-public groups, and foundations. Additional sources could become available later, Stephenson said.
Metrocenter mall
Warren Fink, CEO of Carlyle Development Group, bought Metrocenter mall several years ago. A redevelopment district allows certain movement to make businesses more efficient to make changes economically, Fink said.
He is not a stranger to redevelopment projects. Fink’s group worked on two major projects over four years.
Fink is a 40-year veteran of the commercial real-estate industry. Of that, he spent 15 years focused entirely on redeveloping and repositioning projects.
One of those projects took place near Oakland between 2002 and 2007. The Emeryville Redevelopment Agency was approved in 1976 and dissolved in 2012. Its plan eliminated economic and visual blight in 95 percent of Emeryville, according to the city’s website.
“We redeveloped 20 acres into 370,000 square feet of open-lifestyle retail and 250 condos on top of retail shops,” Fink said.
Carlyle is the largest landowner in the North Mountain Development Area, and Fink envisions sharply reducing the 30 percent vacancy rate at Metrocenter.
His vision would allow for other uses, such as a venue for a college campus, health care, senior housing or office space. These ideas would require working closely with the city for zoning changes, he said.
Councilwoman Williams said that although conditions at the mall have improved, landscaping, rerouting traffic and adding buildings on its outer ring would give the old mall a chance for a strong comeback.
Plan’s highlights
The North Mountain Redevelopment Area plan focuses on five areas: economic development, connectivity, recreation, safety and code compliance, and community education and engagement. It has three phases. Following are highlights:
• Identify sites with high potential for development or adaptive reuse, such as turning a vacant big box building into a restaurant.
• Strong use of Planned Unit Development, which gives businesses greater flexibility to bring new uses to the area.
• Work with Ottawa University to expand college campuses. This would include looking at the feasibility of unifying sports programs into the Rose Mofford Sports Complex and a possible light-rail expansion to bring fans to the complex.
• Extending light rail 3.2 miles along 19th Avenue from Montebello to Dunlap Avenue and west toward Metrocenter. The plan projects 5,000 additional riders daily.
• The city’s Street Transportation Department would study area streets to improve their appearance. Funds for the improvements could come from a possible tax increase.
• Install new streetlights, crosswalks and left-turn lanes along Dunlap from 31st to 43rd avenues.
• Partner with the Maricopa Association of Governments, Valley Metro, other cities and an ad hoc citizens committee to update the Phoenix Bikeway Plan.
The 39th Annual Better Home and Better Living Show is back and will take place at the Fairgrounds Saturday and Sunday. The show is presented by the western Kansas Broadcast Center. Services at the show are designed to improve your home and lifestyle. Exhibits include flowers, landscaping ideas, financial advisors, home improvement ideas, construction companies and car dealers. For show information contact: Ivaree Prewitt 620-276-2366.
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VINCENNES, Indiana — The calendar may proclaim that spring has arrived, but experts advise against breaking out your gardening duds and flower pots just yet.
Temperatures are expected to rise well into the 60s by Friday, but they won’t stay there, according to the National Weather Service in Indianapolis. Lows will drop back into the 20s and 30s this weekend and remain there into the middle of next week.
“It looks like we’re going to have a later spring than we’ve had in the past,” Jason Puma, a NWS meteorologist, told the Vincennes Sun-Commercial (http://bit.ly/1ij2TVB ). “Climate-wise, over the next two months, it looks like there’s a good chance for below-normal temperatures.
“But at least it’s not those negative or single-digit temperatures we have been seeing.”
Generally, the average March high for southwestern Indiana is about 51 degrees and the average low around 32. Things typically warm up in April with average highs at about 63 and lows in the mid-40s.
The last frost for this area usually occurs sometime between April 15 and April 25, but Puma said given the long-range forecast, the risk of overnight frost could last well into May.
Jenny Nettles, the garden center manager at Perk-A-Lawn Gardens, 2470 Maranatha Lane, said in as little as two or three weeks the green houses will begin filling up with annual flowers, things like brightly-colored petunias, begonias and geraniums, but that doesn’t mean people should plant them right away.
“Any frost will hit those harder because they’re more tender,” she said. “Annuals should wait awhile. We usually tell people to plant those around Mother’s Day. By then, we’ve usually had some good weather.”
But, Nettles pointed out, several local landscaping businesses are already hard at work preparing people’s outdoor flower beds. Several perennials are already starting to poke through the ground, somewhat teased by recent warm weather.
And most perennials, Nettles said, will be fine as long as they don’t begin to bloom before winter weather is gone for good.
“We’re going as hard as we can right now,” said Garth Whewell, the general manager at Landscapes by Dallas Foster, 3729 N. Camp Arthur Road. “We have a pretty small window anyway, and this winter hasn’t helped.
“But as far as planting those popular annual flowers goes, it will at least be another month before we would advise that.”
Valerie Clingerman, an educator in agriculture and natural resources with the Knox County Purdue Extension office, said while there isn’t an exact science when it comes deciding the best time to plant flowers and garden vegetables, there are a few guiding indicators people can use.
Most experts agree the last frost in southern Indiana is typically around the end of April, and planting can then begin in early May. But perhaps more important to consider than air temperature is soil temperature, Clingerman said.
For flowers and outdoor landscaping, the “magic number,” she says, is 50 degrees. For gardening, it should be higher, usually at least 60 degrees.
And those numbers, she said, could take awhile to reach this year given the harsh winter weather. The ground is pretty frozen, she said, and will take awhile to thaw.
“It will depend on soil moisture as well,” she said. “If the soil is very moist, the temperature will rise more slowly. And if there is a lot of cover on the soil, like mulch, then that will take longer, too.
“You want to go out and work the soil up in your gardens and landscape areas. That will release the moisture and allow it to dry faster.”
But for those who simply can’t wait until May to beautify the exterior of your home with flowers, there are things you can do to protect them should another frost strike. If temperatures drop below 32 degrees at night, they will need to be covered.
But most people, Clingerman said, do this incorrectly.
“It’s always possible that southern portions of the state could plant by April 15,” she said. “But that does leave a chance that you’ll have to cover them or bring them inside.
“If you can’t bring them inside, cover them with newspaper, old sheets or some kind of paper or cloth material,” she said. “A lot of people use plastic, but plastic amplifies cold air. You don’t want to use plastic. That’s really bad.”
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