September 12-14, 2014

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1 L A K E A R E A Monthly Newsletter September 2014 Volume 8, Issue Club Officers Tamara Jorstad, President Phone: tjorstad@gmail.com Debbie Laemmli, Vice President Phone: dlaemmli@gmail.com JoAnne Gitchell, Secretary Phone: jgitchell@lakeregional.com Jeannie Robbins, Treasurer Phone: jrobbins2081@sbcglobal.net Standing Committee Chairs Garden Walk Gail Conavay theconavays@aol.cm Hospitality Membership Rita Burks ritab001@hotmail.com Mickey McDuffey Make Plans to Attend Birds, Bees, Butterflies & Bats: Our Partners In Gardening September 12-14, 2014 presented by: St. Louis Master Gardeners Missouri Master Gardener Association, Inc. Missouri Botanical Garden University of Missouri Extension mtmcduffey@yahoo.com Newsletter Charli Allee normcharli@aol.com Project Coordinator Jeannie Robbins jrobbins2081@sbcglobal.net Publicity Ginnie Boyles ginniebyle2@gmail.com Ways & Means Mildred Webster Wk# Club Photographer Glenda Hinrichs glenda_hinrichs@yahoo.com Historian Shirley Hirner s-d@charter.net Missouri Master Gardener Association, Inc will have their Annual Meeting, Sunday, September 14, 2014 at 8:00 AM Breakfast at the 9th Master Gardener Conference In St. Louis. Fund Raiser License Plate Covers $5.00 Each Contact your MOMGA Chapter President or Representative or Doris Altom at or butterfly65483@hotmail.com

2 PAGE 2 Ornamentals September Gardening Calendar Cuttings of annuals can be taken now to provide vigorous plants for overwintering. Continue spraying roses that are susceptible to black spot and other fungus diseases. Fall is a great time to invest in spring blooming bulbs. Buy them now while availability is good and then plant them after the ground cools in late October November. Divide and transplant peonies now but make sure the crowns are buried only 1 1/2 to 2 inches below ground level. Deeper planting only keeps the plants from blooming. Look for fall annuals that are tolerant of cooler temperatures. Some suggestions are snapdragon, calendula, pansy, flowering cabbage, stock, viola, dusty miller and poppy. Vegetables and Herbs Compost or till under residues from harvested crops. Sow last seedings of vegetables such as radish, lettuce, spinach and other greens. Harvest herbs to freeze or dry for winter use. Autumn is a good time to add manure, compost or leaf mold to garden soils for increasing organic matter content. Pot up chives, parsley and other herbs and bring into the house to extend the growing season. Enjoy the vegetable displays at your local County Fair! Fruits Prop up branches of fruit trees that are threatening to break under the weight of a heavy crop. Bury or discard any spoiled fallen fruits. These fruits can pass along disease spores to next years crop if not disposed. Pick pears before they are fully mature. Store in a cool, dark basement to ripen. Lawns Begin fall seeding or sodding of cool season grasses. Seedbeds should be raked, dethatched or core-aerified, fertilized and seeded. Keep newly planted lawn areas moist, but not wet. If soils become dry, established lawns should be watered thoroughly to a depth of 4-6 inches. Cool season lawns are best fertilized in fall. Make up to 3 applications between now and December. Do not exceed rates recommended by fertilizer manufacturer.

3 What did grandma do when she saw a native plant that she wanted in her garden????? With the continued preservation of native species, recommendations are to leave the plant and collect the seed. While grandma may have transplanted the occasional plant I am certain that she knew how to collect seed. Saving seed was and is easy and it provides more than one specimen when germination is successful. Once a plant is found, and permission is granted when necessary, it is important to mark the location in some way and monitor that plant so that seed can be harvested at the correct time. When collecting a sample it is best to collect from multiple plants and leave some seed on each plant so that it will continue to populate the area of harvest. If there is only one plant available consider finding another location or make certain to leave at least 50% of the plant seed on the plant. Collect seed in the afternoon when the plants are dry. Do not collect seed when it is wet. Collection methods vary by the plant type. Grass seed can be stripped from the stem or cut just below the stem and stored. Tree seeds can be picked up from the ground once they fall. A stem tip containing seed can be removed from shrubs or picked by hand. Small cloth bags can be placed over a flower head, such as queen Annes Lace Daucus carota that have very small seeds, or sensitive seed pods, like Indian Pinks Spigelia marilandica, which pop open when touched. If a plant has a pod that is not sensitive, as do Lupines Lupinus spp., then collect the entire pod, allow it to dry completely and then break open the pod to remove the seeds. Prairie flowers that form dry flower heads like Gray-headed Coneflower Ratibida pinnata can be clipped and stored. Those that have a vertical inflorescence or shoot, as does Blue Star Amsonia ciliate or Shining Blue Star Amsonia illustris, can be collected just as you would grass. Remove the seed shoot or run your hand up the shoot and collect the seeds in a paper bag. Some flower seeds can simply be shaken over a paper bag, like Columbine Aquilegia Canadensis, and collected as the ripe seeds let go. Before storage, seeds should be cleaned and dried. There are many ways to clean seed and remove debris. Some inexpensive ideas for seed collection and cleaning can be found at Seed can be dried by laying it flat on a newspaper in an open room. Seed should be stored in bags that are not air tight. Bags should be labeled with the plant name and the date collected. Other information that might be useful is the location of the plant, sun or shade and the parent plant height. When storing, the temperature and humidity together should not total more than 100. Seeds stored at 65 F should not be exposed to more than 34% humidity. Do not allow temperatures in storage to fluctuate. PAGE 3

4 PAGE 4 Lake Area Master Gardeners Minutes - July 8, 2014 The Lake Area Master Gardener executive board (the Board) meets each month prior to the regularly scheduled club meeting to review the upcoming agenda and coordinate club activities. The executive board is comprised of the President, the Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and the immediate Past President. Any club member may attend the board meetings. The board met August 12, 2014 prior to the meeting. The agenda included discussion of developing a member handbook, and planning the calendar for 20. The Lake Area Master Gardeners met at the Fire Station Building in Sunrise Beach, MO. Jeff Kitchen, Horticulture and Agriculture Instructor, Lake Career and Technical Center, Camdenton, presented a program on How to have a nice lawn in the Ozarks. Door prizes of gardening gloves were won by Mildred Webster and Kathy Fayant. Tamara Jorstad, president, called the meeting to order. The minutes for July were reviewed. Roni Volmer made a motion to approve the minutes. Sally Burk seconded the motion and it passed. The treasurer s report was given by Jeannie Robbins. There was a beginning balance of $ with expenses for the scholarship and Wilmore Lodge of $532. The ending balance was $ Gail Conavay made a motion to approve the treasurer s report. Mary Mitchell seconded the motion and it passed. Committee reports were given: Projects: The club continues to need someone to volunteer to be the project coordinator. Wilmore Lodge: Per from Pat Griffen, weeding and deadheading continues to be needed. Garden Walk: Gail Conavay reported she and Tamara had visited gardens in the Highway MM, TT and F areas in Sunrise Beach for possible use on the next Garden Walk. If anyone knows of gardens in that area, please let her know. Historian/Scrapbook: The club continues to need a volunteer to maintain the scrapbook and history of the club. LAMG Spring Class: Winnie McKinley announced flyers for the next class will be given out at the Osage Beach Fall Festival September 6 th. MOMGA: Winnie McKinley reported the only news is the state conference September in St Louis. Paper registration needs to be submitted. Electronic registration is not going to be available. Hospitality: Refreshments for the meeting were provided by Roni Volmer and Joan Eads. Old Business: Report hours on line at This is the only way hours can be counted. Library books are available. Please Tamara if you want to sign one out and she will bring it to the meeting. Officers for 2015 are needed. A nominating committee will be appointed at the September meeting. Anyone interested in President, Vice President, or Treasurer should let Tamara know. The Secretary office is not up for election this year.

5 PAGE 5 New Business: Anyone with ideas or suggestions for programs or speakers for 2015 should let Tamara know. Suggestions included a beekeeping program, a program on herbs, and a cooking program. Tamara requested any member who goes to the state conference or other meetings and hears someone they think would be a good program for the club to let her know. The October meeting program this year is sand casting at Jan Mitzel s. There will be leaves available for the program, but if anyone has elephant ears or large leaves in October, please bring them to the meeting. Announcements: There will be a Grow Native workshop Advanced Native Plant Landscape Design sponsored by the Missouri Prairie Foundation at the Botanical Garden in Springfield on September 20 th. Their website is LOWA is having a public meeting August 18 th at the Lodge of the Four Seasons with Jennifer Hogget, Department of Natural Resources Director speaking on Our Missouri Waters program. The meeting is at 630PM. There is a trip planned to Shaw Nature Reserve for September 17 th. Details will be ed closer to the date. There will be a Tomato Festival at the UMC Bradford Farm September 4 th. Volunteer Opportunities: There will be a state Federated Garden Club conference at TanTarA April 13-16, Volunteers from the club are requested for the day the conference tours Wilmore Lodge. More information will be sent out closer to the date. Several club members who do not belong to a federated garden club were interested in attending the conference. Information will be sent out at a later date. The September Meeting will be at 630PM at the Sunrise Beach Fire Station on Highway 5. A program on tree diseases will be presented by Paul Johnson, MDC. Volunteers are needed to bring refreshments for the September 9 and October 14 meeting. Please Rita Burk at ritab001@hotmail.com (these are zeroes) Thank you Hours to report: Education: 1 Hour / No Advanced Education Meeting: 1 Hour Jo Anne Gitchell, Secretary

6 PAGE 6 Lake Area Master Gardener Member Spotlight JoAnne Gitchell How I Got a Free Purple Coneflower and Ended up Being a Master Gardener I grew up on a farm. No flower beds but lots of vegetables needing to be weeded and then picked and canned during the hottest time of the year. When I left home, I never wanted to have any thing to do with gardening ever again. I kept that philosophy for the next twenty five years. Then, one day, in the late nineties, a friend told me she needed to divide some plants in her yard. She gave me a pot with a plant in it. I dug a hole in the backyard, stuck it in there and figured it was on its own. The next summer, there was a beautiful purple coneflower in my backyard with butterflies on it. My friend thought it was pretty funny when I was so amazed and excited. She gave me some more plants. The next year I had purple coneflowers and Shasta daisies both. It went downhill from there. Every year, she gave me different plants and taught me about them. Probably, the first thing I learned was the difference between annual and perennial! I sure planted a lot of flowers that never came back up! I remembered all the flowers my grandmother used to have when I was very young. I started planting some of them. And then, my husband and I moved to a new house with three acres instead of a city lot! It was bare. It needed plants. I discovered I liked learning about and planting things, watching them come up early in the spring and then flower. I discovered the more I planted, the more I had hummingbirds, butterflies, birds, and critters hanging.

7 LAKE AREA MASTER GARDENERS NEWS LETTER PAGE 7 Another friend was an early graduate of the Missouri Master Gardener program. She encouraged me to take the class and introduced me to the wealth of information the Extension Center had available. She told me you learn a little about a lot of different topics in the class. At that time, it was offered only during the day so it was something I had on my bucket list to do when I retired. And then, in 2003, along came Ted Fry and the evening Master Gardener class! I really liked the community volunteer and education aspects of the program. I have also met some awesome people and learned so much about so many topics since the class ended and the club began. I was treasurer for four years and am now the secretary. Being a part of the board is a very unique experience. I highly recommend all members try it. I have been interested in natives ever since the class. They are very hardy, inexpensive, and beautiful. They provide much needed habitat for birds, insects, and animals. I am a big fan of using them as much as possible. I feel my natives restore some of the environment for those that were here long before us which humans (myself included in my younger days) may have destroyed. Maybe I help one bird, one butterfly, or one tree frog have a place to survive. In the last fourteen years, I believe Bob and I have probably hatched close to 140 bluebird babies, fed hundreds of hummers, and provided food for hundreds of monarch caterpillars. Don t get me wrong. I also have the old plants my grandmother grew such as hollyhocks, crepe myrtle, and daffodils (I gave up tulips when the deer found my yard). I have oriental lilies and zinnias that my dad started growing after he retired and didn t need all those vegetables anymore. My husband and I started a memorial flower bed for a college friend who died. He was a big supporter of prairie restoration in northwest Missouri. Every time I see it in bloom, I think of him. My mother-in-law had hen and chickens she gave us. I think of her every time I walk past them. I have a Knockout rose in memory of my mother. I have a friend (thank you, Mary) who has shared daylilies with me, so now I grow them and they are beautiful. I have English Ivy and yucca that I do not particularly like, but I live with a guy who does, so I grow them. And of course, every year I do some containers of annuals for the hummingbirds, butterflies, tree frogs, and humans to enjoy. So, after fourteen years, I still don t grow vegetables. My flower beds and yard may be messy and unorganized, but they are full of color, always blooming, provide habitat for birds, insects, and wildlife, and make me very happy. I can tell you where most of plants came from and why I planted them. I can sit on our gazebo, watch the deer, birds, butterflies, chipmunks, lizards, frogs, rabbits, and turtles visit, and remember friends and family. Who knew all this would be the result of one free purple coneflower.

8 PAGE 8 A message from the 2014 President... August is nearly over and September is coming fast! The lake is already less busy now that school is back in session. Where did summer go? I hope everyone had a great summer with lots of time for family and friends -- and gardening. As I look at my container garden, I realize that it is time to put a couple plants to rest for the summer. I won't mind not watering them, but will miss the fresh harvest. It reminds me that I need to get to Willmore Lodge to deadhead, weed, and plan for fall plantings in the herb bed. If anyone has any thoughts about what the bed may need, please let me know. The more input, the better. We have just 3 more meetings this year! It's time for the board to select a nominating committee for new officers next year (President, Vice President, and Treasurer). Please be thinking about volunteering for a leadership role -- it has been a rewarding experience for me. We will be voting in October, then we have our final meeting in November. Hope to see everyone at the September meeting, again to be held at the Sunrise Beach fire station training center across from Hurricane Deck Elementary School on Hwy 5. If you didn't make it to last month's meeting, the training center is located behind the fire station and you enter the doors at the side of the building (not the front entrance). See you soon! Tamara LOWA is Having its Fall Native Plant Sale with plants from Prairie Hill Farm. The sale will take place at the backside of the Sunrise Beach fire Training Building on Lake Rd (across from Hurricane Deck School). Orders will arrive September 22. Please pick up and pay for your orders between 5:00 PM and 6:30 PM. Preorders need to be in by September 10. Attached is the plant list with prices. If you aren't acquainted with these native plants go to for information and pictures of these plants. LOWA also has information on native plants under LOWA LIL's on their website at To place your pre-order contact Kathy Fayant at kathyfayant@yahoo.com. Home phone number (573) , cell number (573) There will be a limited amount of plants for sale without a pre-order but the selection will be limited.

9 LAKE AREA MASTER GARDENERS NEWS LETTER PAGE 7 Lake Area Master Gardeners August Meeting: - Guest Speaker, Jeff Kitchen Gave a Presentation on Lawn Maintenance or Landscaping or Greenhouses? It s Time to Turn in Your Volunteer Hours! So...What's New? Actually, just the way it looks and there are some added features which allow County and State Extension Staff to run a variety of reports and perform other calculations. If you submitted hours in the past, then you only need to use the same username and password to sign in to this new system. Your records are all still there. Missouri Master Gardeners must have an account in order to use this system. To create an account, fill out the on line Registration Form. Once you've created an account, you can log in to the system and start recording your hours. Master Gardeners who assist in managing their MG Chapter need to have County Admin Access. If that's you, fill out the Admin Registration Request form and we'll change your permissions or send you instructions to create a new Admin account. MU Extension Staff involved in the Master Gardener program can also create an account to monitor active MG progress and make reports as needed. To set up an account, fill out an Admin Registration Request form. You will be ed instructions about what to do next. If you have an account, you can log in by clicking the Log In menu item above. The Missouri Master Gardener On Line Service Reporting System is a program administered by the Office of the State Coordinator of the University of Missouri Extension Master Gardener Program. This office is wholly responsible for the content and development of this site solely for the purpose of the maintenance of accurate Master Gardener Volunteer Service Hour Records in accordance with the policies of the Master Gardener Program

10 L A K E A R E A UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI EXTENSION Lake Area Master Gardener Club P O Box 20/ Courthouse Annex Tuscumbia, MO Our Mission: Helping Others Learn to Grow and To Have Fun Along the Way! 2014 Lake Area Master Calendar General membership/club meetings are held the 2nd Tuesday of each month (except December), beginning at 6:30 PM unless otherwise noted. Questions, comments, topics, and meeting location ideas? Your input is always welcome! Please contact: Debbie Laemmli (dlaemmli@gmail.com) Tamara Jorstad (tjostad@gmail.com) Date Program Location Presenter 09/09/14 Tree Diseases Sunrise Beach Fire Paul Johnson 10/14/14 Leaf Sand Casting Jan Mitzel's Home Jan Mitzel 11/11/14 Graduation Banquet; Slides of Past Garden Walks & Projects; Introduction Willmore Lodge All Officers of Next Year's Programs 11/13 & 15 Willmore Fall Cleanup - Thurs & Sat after November Meeting Willmore Gardens 12/09/14 NO MEETING