Provident Living: Organic homemade sprays

For information on making your own sprays (using those nifty coffee filters Christine gave us) go here

Scheduled Events

Wednesday, June 10th 9:30-12:00. Join us for a super informative meeting. We’re fortunate enough to have Jan Smoot and Mickey Cross come and demonstrate some great alternative cooking methods for us. Learn how to cook quickly and easily with your Dutch and Solar Ovens. We will also have a dehydrating demo and a yogurt-making demo. Please RSVP to Christine – qgsr6@sbcglobal.net. I need to get a commitment from those of you who are able to come. These two lovely ladies are going to put a lot of hard work in to prepare to do these demonstrations and I want to make sure we take advantage of their kindness in doing so. We also will have a lot to cover so you will want to be there from the beginning!

Gardening To-Do List: May

Water deeply from now until November. Study your sprinkling system and make adjustments (try putting in a drip system). Evaluate all your landscape generally as to what plants must go and what must stay. Mildew is a problem in May; if you are still growing peas, try dusting plants with sulfur at intervals of one week. If crop shows signs of slowing down, side-dress the row with vegetable fertilizer (don't overfertilize). Continue to plant summer crops. Staggering plantings you'll get longer harvest and more manageable quantities. Summer plantings - beets, carrots, chayote, corn, cucumbers, eggplant, green beans, lima beans, leaf lettuce, melons, New Zealand spinach, peppers, pumpkins radishes, summer squash, winter squash, swiss chard, tomatoes, turnips and herbs. Once beans and squash begin to bear, pick them daily to keep them coming. Many home gardeners plant herbs among vegetables to help keep pests away. Continue to tie up tomatoes growing on stakes. Pinch out suckers to maintain one or two main trunks per plant (if your tomatoes have ever suffered from early or late blight, it is better to grow them in cages or on stakes without pruning out the suckers - diseases can enter the plant through the pruning cuts). Continue to use organic methods to control pests and diseases on vegetables.

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