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Posted: Friday, May 3, 2013 10:58 am
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Festival offers gardening advice – Daily Mail
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia Division of Culture and History will host a garden festival from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at the Culture Center at the Capitol Complex.
The event celebrates the state’s sesquicentennial with tips on growing heirloom flowers and vegetables. Some of West Virginia’s native plants will be available for sale.
The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.wvculture.org.
SHIRLAND: Nurseryman Brian Ellis offers gardening tips to Hardy Plant Society …
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Master gardening tips, buffet to highlight YWCA event
Posted: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 11:35 am
BATAVIA — Master gardening tips and a buffet of herb-roasted chicken, red potato salad with dill and fresh fruit with cream are on tap for the next YES! Cafe lunchtime series. It’s set for noon, May 8 at YWCA of Genesee County, 301 North St.
Ingrid Bowen, a Master Gardener from Cornell Cooperative Extension, will share advice about how to reap a bountiful garden and what flowers do well in this Western New York climate.
Retired teacher and avid gardener Wally Guenther will talk about container gardening, which is perfect for those with apartments or homes with a smaller lawn space.
There will also be an opportunity to ask questions after the presentations.
Genesee ARC’s Culinary Arts staff will prepare garlic-rosemary chicken breast, red potato salad with onions, celery and dill and assorted fresh fruit with homemade whipped topping to round out the lunchtime program.
‘‘The YES! Cafe is a fun, entertaining way to offer useful information along with a healthy and delicious meal,’’ Executive Director Jeanne Walton said.
‘‘It furthers the YWCA’s mission to form partnerships with other community agencies and, since it looks as though spring has finally arrived, it offers a great opportunity to get some tips and ask questions about your gardens at home.’’
Those participating in the annual Day of Caring have been invited to take a break from their volunteer tasks and get a freshly prepared meal on site or take-out.
Day of Caring organizations are asked to call for more information.
Lunch and program is $10. RSVP by Friday at (585) 343-5808.
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A master gardener offers spring tips
As the weather finally starts to warm up, gardeners in Minnesota may be eager to get their hands in the dirt. Julie Weisenhorn, State Master Gardener Program director at the University of Minnesota Extension, offered these tips for a successful season:
1. You can plant cool-weather vegetables including radishes, kale and peas right now. But wait until at least mid-May to plant tomatoes, eggplants, and peppers.
2. If you started seedlings inside, make sure they are getting enough sun and are in a well-drained container. When you are ready to move them outside, do so gradually. Start by putting them in a shady spot outside and bringing them into the house at night. Gradually move them into full-time sun.
3. Protect your tree trunks if they are young or fragile. The tree’s circulation system, the cambium layer, is just beneath the bark. A lone bunny can inflict fatal damage.
4. Pay attention to your soil temperature. Before you plant, get your hands into the dirt and make sure you don’t have any ice crystals in there or the seeds will rot instead of thrive.
5. If you are looking for new plants, consider using a bee-friendly plant rich with nectar. You can try bee balm, cone flowers, lupine, and asters. The bees are in danger and need some help.
6. To start a garden, kill off grass in your plot using something like a dark plastic sheet over the grass for two months. If you can’t wait, try building raised beds or a start a straw-bale garden. Those options are especially good if you have poor, sandy soil or live in an urban area that could have contaminants.
The waiting may be the hardest part. “Across the country, commercial vegetable growers and home gardeners are trying to gauge the impact of a cold, wet spring, balancing the itch to plant with the knowledge that flirting with spring’s whims can bring heartache,” according to NPR.
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Tips to prevent back pain when gardening – Femalefirst
30 April 2013
Now that winter is over, it’s time to get back out in the garden to prepare for another growing season. There is a lot of heavy work to be done at this time though, from a general tidy up after a few months of neglect to digging the borders or vegetable patch.
After a winter away from our gardening tasks, this is the time we subject ourselves to sudden bursts of strenuous activity and really put our backs at risk. It’s not a good idea to have serious bouts of digging or sweeping after long periods of inactivity or sedentary living, without first preparing our bodies for the tasks ahead.
These periods of heavy activity often entail poor posture with repetitive lifting, carrying, and twisting can easily lead to acute lower back pain, as a result of our backs not being used to or prepared for this sudden activity.
If we don’t prepare, then we are risking lower back pain and that déjà vu moment from last year of “My back is really hurting – I think I’ve overdone it in the garden”! We are now regretting those levels of enthusiasm and seeking back pain relief. Isn’t hindsight great?
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If you are reading this before you get out in the garden, then here’s a few tips to avoid gardening back pain that you might wish to consider before getting those gloves on.
Tips to prevent gardening back pain
Warm up
Do some simple stretching exercises to limber up before getting busy or take a short walk simply to loosen up those joints ready for the task ahead.
Pace yourself
Don’t try to do it all in one session, the key to avoiding back pain is to take regular breaks from digging or raking, and maybe vary your tasks to reduce the duration of repetitive movement. For example follow 30 minutes of digging with say some pruning.
Digging
Make sure you dig in front of you, level and parallel with your hips, use your foot to push the shovel into the soil, and lean into it from above so you are pushing down rather than out in front of you. Try to bend from the knees when lifting the soil, rather than your back. Make sure you take plenty of breaks to avoid back pain.
Raking
Try to maintain a straight back and pull your rake towards your body than to one side to reduce twisting forces on your back.
Decking treatments
Bending down to apply brush on treatments is guaranteed to cause low back pain. Invest in a proper decking roller (much quicker), or use a kneeling pad and try to brush in front of you rather than to one side.
Planting
Again use a kneeling pad and avoid bending down if you want avoid back pain. Dont continually do this, stand up, take a break, and do some back stretches.
If you are potting then try to do this on a work top or surface at a comfortable height and be aware that wet compost is heavy so try to ensure that you don’t have to move full pots or containers very far.
Lifting
Again you may cause back pain if you are moving heavy weights such as a full pot or container over a distance. Be sure to use a wheel barrow.
Refreshment
Make sure you take on plenty of water, especially if it’s warm
The golden rule: If you want to avoid gardening back pain….then Don’t Overdo It!
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Spring Gardening Tips
Fargo, ND (WDAY TV) — With the warmer temperatures, many of you may be anxious to get in your gardens. But for those of you with the gardening itch, it may be best to wait.
Although the sun is shining some yards and gardens aren’t ready to be started quite yet, but there are some things you can be doing to prepare.
Angela Bartelson/Baker Garden Gift: “If your ground is squishy and you still have standing water you certainly don’t want to be tilling it up at this point.”
Soil is ready for gardening once it is free of ice crystals and crumbles easily. Once soil is beginning to dry up you can prep it with fertilizer.
Once your soil is dry it’s best to start seeds for things like peas, spinach, and lettuce. These vegetables do better in colder temperatures.
For things like tomatoes and peppers, it’s best to wait until the weather tracks with more consistent warmer temps. If you started tomato plants inside, you can start acclimating them now.
Angela: “With the warmer days and the warmer nights they can think about anything that they started growing, getting it outside, under their patio and their decks, starting to get it used to the temperatures, getting it used to being outside, we do need to think about that we’re going to have some of those frost days to be bringing them back into the house.”
It’s also a good idea to start acclimating perennials now, but keep an eye on the forecast before you plant to ensure you’ll have blooming May flowers.
If there is still snow on your lawn, you should move it around to prevent snow mold and start placing fertilizer.
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