sustainable yards and gardens

8/6/2019 Sustainable Yards and Gardens

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Sustainable Yards and

Gardens

Ross Penhallegon, Horticulture Agent


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What we will learn tonight?

Food big picture

Transportation

Food and how it is produced Local sources vs long distance

Food wastes


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Yards

Composting

Sustainable landscapes


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Where does food come from?

Where does it come from November to April?


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INPUTS

SmallMedium.Large


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What can we do about the food production

issues?

What are our local choices?

Regional ag center, regional farmers market,regional certified kitchen, region cleaning-

packaging center


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Farmers markets

Eugene Veneta

Springfield Creswell

Dexter Junction City

Local farm stands

Food webs

Local grains and flour


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GrassRoots Garden

- Coburg Road

Use 60 tons of leaves and produce 60,000

pounds of food forF

ood for Lane County

Community Gardens


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FOOD WASTES

15-25% of the fresh food in the store iswasted

WHY?


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Follow The Food

1 Picked and shipped a long distance

2 Cardboard fruit and veges

3 Improper storage in the stores 4 People purchasing TOO much food or not

enough food


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We can Grow it, we also need to

Preserve IT

FOOD PRESERVATION

A way to save food for later

Name the ways:


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Dry

Can when is the BEST time to can?

Freeze dry Have long lasting fruits and veges, ie -

squash


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Proper storage old root cellars, like

3rd

world countries i.e., root cellar


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SOILS and their importance to sustainability

Nitrogen Cycle

NH4 ammonium

2NO2 nitrate 2NO3 - nitrate


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IRRIGATION

1- USE LESS 2 - HAVE NOOR LESS LAWN

3 Native plants

4 Water early AM or early PM. Why?

MORE


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Problems with watering at night?

5 Monitor water use see web devise.6- Using soaker hoses or drip lines

7- Develop a rain barrel system

8 Use compost or mulches. Saves 50% ofthe water. Why?


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Compost specialists


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COMPOST

Reduce organic materials into the land fill. Provides great OM for the yard and garden.

Smoothers many weeds.

Saves water. Can be used as a fertilizer.


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Coffee grounds


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COMPOST

Compost what is compost?

Compost specialists - 62504 pounds of coffee grounds used in

gardens. (Plants are not sleep at night

now!!!)

-28572 pounds of veg waste

Compost tea


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COMPOST METHODS

Piles Sheet or lasagna

Deep row

Slow cook Bins, i.e.- Darth vader type

Long term!!!


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INSECTS:

CONTROLOFWEEDS: Squish

Cover plants

Live with 20% loss production or loss Predators

Small uses of organic or synthetic pesticides

only if needed.


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NEWPRODUCT - fruit and veges

having 1% PRO TEIN!!!!!!!!!!! Spottedwing drosophila. VALUE ADDED!!


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Diseases:

Space plants more open

No evening watering

Have quick harvest of plants


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Buy disease resistant plants, i.e.

LEGEND

tomatoes


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LOWINSECT /DISEASE PLANTS

Lettuce, chard, early radishes, spinach, squash, carrots, cabbage, beets

MEDIUM: potatoes, cucumbers,


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CLASSES

August MasterGarden applications

Sustainable landscape classes

See out web site: http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/

Pruning May 17 and 19

CommunityG

ardening Series IPM May 26


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Covered at lot of things.

Open for the next while for Questions andAnswers


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