LAKE AREA
Monthly Newsletter
September 2013
Volume 7, Issue 9
2013 Club Officers
Jan Mitzel President
Phone: 573-286-3174
E-mail: [email protected]
Ginnie Boyle Vice President
E-mail
Phone: 573-392-4223
[email protected]
Phone: 573-392-4223
Glenda Hinrichs, Secretary Phone: (573) 964-5601
E-mail: [email protected]
Jeannie Robbins, Treasurer
Phone: 573-392-4223
E-mail: [email protected]
Standing Committee Chairs
Garden Walk
Glenda Hinrichs-573-365-5033
[email protected]
Patty Bailey-573-365-0069
[email protected]
Hospitality
Rita Burks-573-434-4144
[email protected]
Membership
Mickey McDuffey-573-873-5548
[email protected]
Newsletter
Charli Allee-573-480-1915
[email protected]
Project Coordinator Jeannie Robbins 573-873-3398
Fall View of the Carnahan Memorial Gardens
A striking complement to the Missouri Capitol Complex, this
Garden, located next to the Governor's Mansion, was
constructed in the late 1930’s. The site is filled with flowers,
pools, and walkways. After the death of Governor Mel
Carnahan, the garden was renamed the Carnahan Memorial
Gardens.
[email protected]
Publicity
Ways & Means
Charli Allee 573-480-1915
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The Garden is Open Year Round—Dawn to Dusk
[email protected]
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Free Admission
Mildred Webster 573-363-5650
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Suitable for All Ages
Wk# 573-346-7211
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Partially Wheelchair Assessable
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Service Animals Welcome and Pets on leash allowed
Shirley Hirner 573-365-5977
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Unrestricted Smoking
[email protected]
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The Garden Can Be Reserved for Special Events
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Advance Contact Required for Large Groups
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Phone - 573-751-3249
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Located at 101 Jefferson Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101
Club Photographer Patti Raithel (573) 317-1750
[email protected]
Historian
Miller County Extension
P O Box 20,Courthouse Annex
Ed Brown, MU Extension Agronomy Specialist
Tuscumbia, MO 65082 573-369-2394 Fax: 573-369-2394
www.extension.missouri.edu/miller
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September Gardening Calendar
Ornamentals
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Weeks 1-3: Cuttings of annuals can be taken now to provide vigorous plants for overwintering.
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Weeks 1-3: Herbs such as parsley, rosemary, chives, thyme and marjoram can be dug from the garden and
placed in pots now for growing indoors this winter.
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Weeks 2-4: Except tulips, spring bulbs may be planted as soon as they are available. Tulips should be kept in a
cool, dark place and planted in late October.
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Weeks 2-3: Begin readying houseplants for winter indoors. Prune back rampant growth and protruding roots.
Check for pests and treat if necessary. Houseplants should be brought indoors at least one month before the heat is
normally turned on.
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Weeks 3-4: Perennials, especially spring bloomers, can be divided now. Enrich the soil with peat moss or compost before replanting.
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Weeks 3-4: Divide peonies now. Replant in a sunny site and avoid planting deeply.
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Weeks 3-4: Lift gladioli when their leaves yellow. Cure in an airy place until dry before husking.
Lawns
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Weeks 1-4: 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.
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Weeks 1-4: If soils become dry, established lawns should be watered thoroughly to a depth of 4-6 inches.
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Weeks 1-4: Begin fall seeding or sodding of cool season grasses. Seedbeds should be raked, dethatched or coreaerified, fertilized and seeded. Keep newly planted lawn areas moist, but not wet.
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Weeks 3-4: Newly seeded lawns should not be cut until they are at least 2 or 3 inches tall.
Vegetables
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Weeks 1-2: Sowing seeds of radish, lettuce, spinach and other greens in a cold frame will prolong fall harvests.
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Weeks 2-4: Keep broccoli picked regularly to encourage additional production of side shoots.
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Weeks 2-3: Harvest herbs now to freeze or dry for winter use.
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Week 4: Sow spinach now to overwinter under mulch for spring harvest.
Miscellaneous
 Weeks 1-4: Autumn is a good time to add manure, compost or leaf mold to garden soils for increasing
organic matter content.
 Weeks 1-2: Monitor plants for spider mite activity. Reduce their numbers by hosing off with a forceful
spray of water.
Gardening Calendar supplied by the staff of the William T. Kemper Center for Home Gardening located at
the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri. (www.GardeningHelp.org)
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Lake of the Ozarks Watershed Alliance is in need of volunteers to work in the
education booth for the following events:
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Fall Fun Fest at Osage Beach City Park, Saturday, September 7
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2 Dam Days at Beaver’s at the Dam in Lake Ozark, Sunday, September 29
Hours worked on these events count toward Master Gardener Hours. Shifts will be 2-3
hours, or more if you wish. No prior experience with LOWA is necessary. We will teach
you what to say about the information you will be dispersing. These are all fun events, and working
the LOWA booth is a great way to experience all of them!
Please contact Debbie Laemmli at 816-304-9416, 573-372-8108, or [email protected] if you are
interested.
Hi! I am the new chair for the Garden Walk and would like to go look at the 3 gardeners, gardens I
have who volunteered for next year. I need some help to do this and I also would like to find a
garden in the Camdenton area. So if you know of someone let me know.
I have one garden in Roach, one on Bear Paw off hwy 5 and one off Hwy 5 east of Camdenton. So I
figured one in the Camdenton area near hwy 5 would be a nice continuation.
But right now I need a couple people to go with me to assess the three I have and someone who can
write up a nice description of the gardens.
I would like to do this in the next 2 weeks if possible. So please all answer this plea for some help
now to get this part done and out of the way. With all of your help I am sure next year will be a
fantastic year for the Walk.
Thank you, Gail Conavay 573-286-5064
Greetings Everyone!
Sometimes, it feels like our Lake area demographics can be a bit challenging! It seems that in the
winter months, we lose members to warmer climates. Then in the summer months, we all have full
guest rooms and become tour guides for our visitors! On top of that, some of us live 60+ miles from
each other, across toll bridges and country roads. Yet somehow, we all pitch in to keep everything
rolling along! THANKS TO EACH OF YOU for your interest, energy, attendance and support to
keep our LAMG Club an active community minded organization!
With this issue, we are starting a new Club Classifieds section in our Newsletter. If you have
anything garden related to buy, sell, trade or share, please email your information directly to Charli
Allee to include in our next issue.
Also remember that anyone can post anything on our Facebook page! Just search for Lake Area
Master Gardeners on Facebook.
Happy Gardening Everyone! Jan Mitzel, LAMG President
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Tips to Start a Cottage Garden Style….
While formal gardens thrive on order and well-defined spaces, cottage gardens bubble in
cheerful tangles of flowers that form a kaleidoscope of hue and texture.
"Cottage garden style is relaxed, colorful, and fun," says Darrell Trout, avid gardener, writer, and lecturer, whose own garden reflects his passion for easy-growing beauty.
"A cottage garden has perhaps less regard for rules than for doing what you really love," he says. Follow this
step-by-step advice to cultivate your own corner of delightful floral abundance.
1. Start small. "Don't create a monster that you don't have time to feed regularly," Trout says. "Keep your
cottage garden small, and most of all, fun." Over time, as your confidence grows, increase the size.
2. Invest in soil. "Starting with good, rich, organic soil where plants will thrive with a minimum of watering
and fertilizing cuts the work from the start," Trout says. He also recommends doing a soil test to learn the
type of soil you have. Add organic matter yearly, either by purchasing compost or making your own.
3. Position plants carefully. Much work in a garden comes from not having the right plant in the right place.
As you gain gardening experience, you can push the envelope, Trout says. "But the healthiest plants -- ones
that need less care -- are those that are in ideal conditions," he adds.
4. Select sturdy beauties. "Choose high-performance, almost bulletproof plants," Trout says. "There is no
absolutely right way or wrong way to create a cottage garden, so choose what you love."
Some of Trout's favorite plants include spring-flowering bulbs, purple coneflower (Echinacea purpurea),
wild indigo (Baptisia australis), 'Stella d'Oro' or 'Happy Returns' daylily (Hemerocallis), New England aster
(Aster novae-angliae 'Alma Potschke'), and Russian sage (Perovskia atriplicifolia 'Blue Spire').
For foliage interest, try lady's mantle (Alchemilla mollis), lambs' ears (Stachys byzantina 'Helene Von Stein'),
or blue fescue (Festuca glauca). Avoid high-maintenance roses. Trout suggests growing tough, diseaseresistant Knock Out shrub roses, Meidiland landscape roses, 'Betty Prior' (a floribunda rose), or the oldfashioned climber 'Blaze'.
5. Cover soil. "Mulching helps maintain soil moisture levels and prevents weeds from growing," Trout says.
"As organic mulch (bark, compost, or leaf mold) breaks down, it improves soil. Mulch also gives the garden
a neater, more unified look."
6. Make it automatic. Trade dragging a hose around for hands-free watering. "I like drip hoses, as it's easy
to put the water exactly where you want it -- and not on the foliage or flowers," Trout says. "It's also more
environmentally correct: Less water evaporates into the air."
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A Short History of the Pumpkin
Pumpkins are believed to have originated in North America. Seeds from related plants have been found in Mexico dating back to
7000 to 5500 B.C. References to pumpkins date back many centuries. The name pumpkin originated from the Greek word for
"large melon" which is "pepon." "Pepon" was changed by the French into "pompon." The English changed "pompon" to
"Pumpion." American colonists changed "pumpion" into "pumpkin."
Native American Indians used pumpkin as a staple in their diets centuries before the pilgrims landed. They also dried strips of
pumpkin and wove them into mats. Indians would also roast long strips of pumpkin on the open fire and eat them. When white
settlers arrived, they saw the pumpkins grown by the Indians and pumpkin soon became a staple in their diets. As today, early
settlers used them in a wide variety of recipes from desserts to stews and soups. The origin of pumpkin pie is thought to have
occurred when the colonists sliced off the pumpkin top, removed the seeds, and then filled it with milk, spices and honey. The
pumpkin was then baked in the hot ashes of a dying fire.
Pumpkins and Halloween
The origin of Halloween dates back at least 3,000 years to the Celtic celebration of Samhain (pronounced "sow-ain"). The
festival was held starting at sundown on October 31st and lasted until sundown on November 1st. It was similar to the modern
practice of the New Years celebration.
On this magical night, glowing jack-o-lanterns, carved from turnips or gourds, were set on porches and in windows to welcome
deceased loved ones, but also to act as protection against malevolent spirits. Burning lumps of coal were used inside as a source
of light, later to be replaced by candles.
Samhain was not the name of a "Lord of the Dead", no historical evidence has ever been found to back this up, it was simply the
name of the festival and meant "Summer's End". It was believed that the souls of the dead were closest to this world and was the
best time to contact them to say good bye or ask for assistance. It was also a celebration of the harvest. It is still treated as such
today by those who practice Wicca or other nature based religions. It has absolutely nothing to do with satan, who was a creation
of the Christian church.
When European settlers, particularly the Irish, arrived in America they found the native pumpkin to be larger, easier to carve and
seemed the perfect choice for jack-o-lanterns. Halloween didn't really catch on big in this country until the late 1800's and has
been celebrated in many ways ever since!
Fun Facts About The Pumpkin!
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Pumpkins contain potassium and Vitamin A.
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Pumpkin flowers are edible.
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The largest pumpkin pie ever made was over five feet in diameter and weighed over 350 pounds. It used 80 pounds of
cooked pumpkin, 36 pounds of sugar, 12 dozen eggs and took six hours to bake.
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In early colonial times, pumpkins were used as an ingredient for the crust of pies, not the filling.
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Pumpkins were once recommended for removing freckles and curing snake bites.
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The largest pumpkin ever grown weighed 1,140 pounds.
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The Connecticut field variety is the traditional American pumpkin.
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Pumpkins are 90 percent water.
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Eighty percent of the pumpkin supply in the United States is available in October.
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Native Americans flattened strips of pumpkins, dried them and made mats.
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Native Americans called pumpkins "isqoutm squash." Native Americans used pumpkin seeds for
food and medicine.
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Lake Area Master Gardener’s
Classified Ads—
*Buy *Sell *Share *Free
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FREE to a Good Pond! Sharon Falter would like to give about 30 fish away free to
anyone with a garden pond that need fish (mostly fancy tails). I would very much
appreciate any help you could give me or any other suggestions. I would
appreciate it if you could contact me at 573.365.2170—Thank you. Sharon Falter
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FREE - Green Extra Large Ladies Master Gardener Shirt with MU Extension
logo. Given to club by former member.
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Garden Gloves for Sale by Lake Area Master Gardeners—Contact Mildred
Webster at 573-363-5650 or 573-346-7211
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Whether you have been with Lake Area Master Gardeners for years
or you have joined recently, your Club needs YOU! The following
position need to be filled by October for Next Year:
· Vice President
There may be other positions, as well. Please contact Glenda, Ginnie, Jan, Charlie O
or Jeannie at your earliest opportunity.
Remember, it takes EVERYONE to keep everything flowing!
Found: Large silver
hoop ear ring in my
garden bed! Glenda
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The most beautiful and biggest natural flower garden in the
world, Dubai Miracle Garden, opened on 13th February 2013.
The Miracle Garden contains special vertical and horizontal landscaping
designs, each area has special design. The Miracle Garden contains different
types of flowers, some flowers are planted first time in the gulf Region, the
garden contains more than 45 million flowers.
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Lake Area Master Gardeners - Minutes for Tuesday, August 13, 2013 @ 6:30 PM
Call to Order: The monthly garden meeting of Lake Area Master Gardeners was held at Glenda Hinrichs’
home in Lake Ozark, MO., on Tuesday, August 13, 2013. President Jan Mitzel presiding.
A tour of Glenda’s garden was held first. Glenda asked for help in identifying natives versus weeds and
advice on peonies.
22 members and 1 guest attended. All Board Members were present except for Past President Charlie
O’Neill. The business meeting was then held. Kathy Fayant made a motion to approve the July minutes. The
motion was approved.
Jeannie Robbins gave the Treasurer’s Report. Beginning balance for the treasury was $10,050. Ending
Balance was $9,044 with money being spent on Garden Walk and Willmore Lodge. Ginnie Boyle made a
motion to approve the report and Patty Raithel seconded the motion. Motion was approved.
Upcoming Lake Area Master Gardeners elections were discussed. Tamara Jorsted has agreed to be President
for 2014. JoAnne Gitchell will be Secretary. Jan Mitzel will serve on the board as Past President. Jeannie
Robbins will serve as Treasurer. We need a volunteer for Vice President! Gail Conavay will be leading the
Garden Walk for 2014.
Lake Area Master Gardeners will host a booth at the Fall Festival, September 7 th, in Osage Beach. The
festival has been moved to City Hall as the park was flooded in the recent rains.
Ginnie has ordered a sign for Willmore out of the Willmore budget. The posts are aluminum and the sign is
closed so water can’t get inside. Dark green letters state: Maintained by Lake Area Master Gardeners. The
Willmore Board approved the sign and Pat’s husband will install it. We would like it placed at the top of the
trail to the gardens on the right hand side.
Project Coordinator, Jeannie Robbins, gave information on a project at Dogwood School in Camdenton.
They are looking for someone to help students plant a garden and take care of it.
Willmore Lodge Coordinator, Pat Griffin, needs help working the big bed with the Spirea. Also the roses
need deadheading.
Gail Conavay is looking for a garden for the Garden Walk in the Camdenton area. Gail, Shirley and Sylvia
have looked at 3 gardens in the Camdenton area.
Mildred Webster, Ways and Means, has gloves for sale.
Glenda Hinrichs displayed the rocks purchased for the 2014 Garden Walk. She bought two rocks to make
memorials for Jean Henry and Fred McAdams. She will have them engraved.
Winnie McKinley reported that no one has signed up for the Master Gardener Class. Winnie has order forms
for shirts. She sent a clipboard around for volunteers to sign up for hosting classes.
Lisa Wayman won the door prize, a garden knife.
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Central Missouri Master Gardeners in Jefferson City are having a garden tour on September 8 th,
entitled A Day in the Garden with a Master Gardener. Tour five different gardens for $10.
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Fall Clean Up at Willmore will be held on Thursday, November 14 th, and Saturday, November
16th.
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Next Meeting is at Mickey McDuffey’s home in Camdenton on September 9 th at 6:30 PM, Tree
and Woody Shrub identification.
The Meeting adjourned @ 8:30. One hour education and 45 minutes service were earned.
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Gardening by Region
Gardening in the Southwest is very
different from gardening in the
Midwest,
Mountain
West,
Northeast, South, Northwest, or
even Southern California. What
works for one state -- or even for
one county -- may not work
elsewhere.
We've taken the work out of it with
a
region-by-region
guide
to
achieving garden success. The first
step is to understand your USDA
Hardiness Zone: Guides and maps
will help you find your magic
number and learn more about
what's typical for your region. Use
the Zone map to pick the best plants
for your region.
Gardening by Region
Other helpful information includes a guide to fuss-free plants; top wildflowers and roses
by region; and great vegetables, herbs, and perennials for wherever you live and garden.
The one thing that virtually every gardener in every state in the country needs help with
is deer: Go here to find plants that deer don't like to eat in your region. Public gardens
are a great source of inspiration; you'll easily locate your nearest public garden with our
Garden Locator. Check Out www.garden.org/zipzone
If you have news items pictures of your gardens, projects, special plants, or want to
share your favorite garden tips just let me know!!
Please submit items by the 20th of the month so I can post them in our Monthly
Newsletter! Send to Charli Allee at 242 Siesta Circle, Camdenton, MO 65020
or e-mail: [email protected]
2013 Calendar of Events for Lake Area Master Gardeners
Monthly Meetings will be head at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church located at
442 East US Highway 54, Camdenton, MO
All Meeting begin at 6:30, Questions? Call Jan Mitzel @ 573-286-3174
9/10/13
Tree & Woody Shrub Identification, Presenter Paul Johnson, at home of
Micky McDuffy
9/21-21/13
Missouri Master Gardener Conference Hosted by Greene County Master Gardeners,
Springfield, MO Find conference details at: missourimastergardener.org
10/08/13
Hypertufela at Jan Mitzel’s Home-Directions to follow
11/12/13
Class of 2013 Master Gardener Graduation Banquet
No Meeting In December—Enjoy Christmas
6/7/2014
Garden Walk—Gail Conavay to chair the Garden Walk –looking for gardens in the
Camdenton Area—Call
Camdenton Famer’s Market (located on the Square) and Osage Beach Farmers Market (located at
Stone Crest Mall—3797 Osage Beach Parkway) are now open on Saturday Mornings until fall
LAKE AREA
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI EXTENSION
Lake Area Master Gardener Club
P O Box 20/ Courthouse Annex
Tuscumbia, MO 65082
Our Mission: “Helping Others Learn to Grow” and To Have Fun Along the Way!