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All Star Award

 And A Gold Star Goes To...

 

  Gold Star!

Paul Lassig. Paul was the first to submit the correct answer to our May Trivia Question, "What is the second most traded commodity in the world?" The correct answer is: "coffee."

 

Paul won a $15.00 Wedel's gift card and you could too! Just be the first to respond with the correct answer to our monthly trivia question.

 

Congratulations, Paul!! 
 
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June
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Garden gloves for Dad

Scotts Lawn Fungus Control
Fertilome Weed Free Zone  
Grass seed
Starter fertilizer
GrubEx
Bird seed
Pruners
Pruning sealer
Plant labels, stakes, twist ties, cages
Lawn and garden fungicide
Rain gauge

Garden seeds
Repellex Mole and Gopher Repellent 

Lawn spreader 

Suet 

Gift card

Ortho Home Defense Max
Hummingbird feeder
Hummingbird nectar 
  
  

A Thought
From the Garden
   


"What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade."

- Gertrude Jekyll,
On Gardening
Did You Know?

 

1. In the U.S., more tomatoes are consumed every day than any other vegetable or fruit.
       
2. Turmeric, which makes mustard yellow, has anti-inflammatory properties.

3. Doctors recommend you have 5 servings of fruit and vegetables per day. One serving is half a cup.

 

4. The average child in America will consume 1,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches by the time he or she graduates from high school.  
 
Mom's Home Cooking
Mom Tested And Approved

Want to keep that luscious, fresh berry taste? This is so easy to make!

Fresh Strawberry Jam

2 C. finely mashed or sieved strawberries
4 C. sugar
1 Pkg. powdered fruit pectin
1 C. water

Combine fruit and sugar. Let stand 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Boil powdered pectin and water rapidly for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Remove from heat. add berries and stir about 2 minutes.

Pour into containers and cover. Let stand at room temperature 1 hour. Refrigerate until set.

Store in freezer. Once opened, keep in refrigerator. Makes 5 to 6 half pints.

Variations

Omit powdered pectin and water. Use 1/2 C. liquid fruit pectin. No heating is necessary.

Apricot Jam:  Add 1 tsp. powdered ascorbic acid or 3 tblsp. lemon juice to finely mashed and measured fresh apricots. Substitute apricots for strawberries.

Black Raspberry Jam: 
Substitute black raspberries for strawberries.

Cherry Jam:  Pit tart cherries and put through food chopper. Measure and substitute for strawberries.

Peach Jam:  Add 1 tsp. powdered ascorbic acid or 3 tblsp. lemon juice to mashed peaches to keep them from darkening. Measure peaches and substitute for strawberries.

From Farm Journal's Country Cookbook

Enjoy!

Just for Grins...
and
Groans 
 

You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.

Arnie Thudd     

Wedel's News

Volume 8, Number 3                                                             June 2015  
Wedel's Rose List
For 2015
2015 Rose List

Last month we introduced our new roses for 2015 and, I hope you agree, they were some real beauties. This month we would like you to have our complete list. 

 

This list includes the new offerings for this year, roses that are new to our list and many tried and true favorites. You will also find a great deal of information about where to plant each variety, their distinguishing characteristics and how to plant and best maintain your new landscape additions.

 

Take a few minutes to peruse the list, print it, mark it and take it along with you when you make a visit to Wedel's to see your choices in person. Jot down any questions you might have and, by the time you head home with your selections you'll be an expert! As you know, there's little that will compete with the beauty of roses.

 

To access the entire list, click on the "Wedel's Garden Center 2015 Rose List" image above.

Salad Season

Radish As gardeners, we yearn to sow the earliest seeds of spring into the garden - Botanical Interests' lettuce, peas, kale, spinach, arugula, mustards, carrots, radish...yum, you get the idea. These early, fresh spring crops are up in the garden and paying off on the salad plate. Add some overwintered carrots, onion leaves, homegrown pansy and bachelor button flowers, and you have a downright masterpiece for the eyes and the palate.
 

Planting tip: mustardSuccession sowing: Succession sowing refers to sowing a crop in intervals to ensure a continuous harvest. By sowing crops with different days to maturity (harvest), you are planning for multiple harvests in one effort. For example, our Little Finger carrots are harvestable in 57 days, and Atomic Red carrots will mature in 70 to 75 days. When you sow both of these crops at the same time, you already have two successive harvests.

Harvesting tip:
Whenever possible, harvest vegetables in the cool of the morning. Both greens (spinach, mustards, Swiss chard, and kale) and lettuce can be stored in a sealed container in the refrigerator for a week or more. Harvest entire stems with the leaves of Swiss chard, kale, and mustard; it helps the plant put its energy into more growth.

 

Botanical Interests

Garden Natives

Color Guard Adam's Needle

Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard'

 

 

 

Yucca
If you're looking for a tough-as-nails plant to add color and beauty to your problem sunny areas this month's Garden Native is just what you need. Color Guard Adam's Needle Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard' is an ideal candidate for a no-maintenance garden where there is light or sandy soil and full sun. It is a native to beaches, sand dunes and even corn fields. It will even tolerate shallow, rocky soil. It can be used for foundation planting, ground cover, in a rock garden, as a border and even in containers.

 

 

 

Yucca
The leathery sword-shaped leaves radiate from a central core, are a gray-green color with a creamy yellow center and green edges. They have a coral or rose color in winter and remain upright all year except in heavy snow. Long filaments of curly white threads form along the leaf margins. When mature
Color Guard Adam's Needle produces a very tall (3' to 4') spike which is loaded with large creamy-white flowers in summer. The bell-shaped flowers are 2" to 3" long and dangle from the stems like earrings.

 

 

Yucca
This shrub requires only occasional maintenance and should be cleaned up in early spring before it resumes active seasonal growth. Faded flower stems can be removed to the base after blooming, in late summer. Click here for more information about this month's Garden Native, Color Guard Adam's Needle Yucca filamentosa 'Color Guard.'

 

 
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Closed Sundays
 
To Do In June

 

Apply Weed Free Zone for lawn weed control.
Feed roses, fertilize flower beds.
Stake plants.
Inspect plants for 4-line plant bugs and aphids.
Inspect vine plants for vine borers.
Apply Preen Weed Preventer.
Prune early spring bloomers e.g. forsythia, lilac.
Keep food supplied for nesting birds.
Still ample time to grow crops from seeds.
 
 

Happy Father's Day!
Happy Father's Day

Mark Your Calendar 

Friday, June 5
Feed Garden Flowers
 every two weeks with
Fertilome Blooming Plant Food 

Monday, June 8
Time to Apply
Lawn Fungus Control

Sunday, June 14
Flag Day
Fly the USA Flag Proudly

Monday, June 15
Feed Roses

Sunday, June 21
Father's Day
First Day of Summer

Saturday, June 27
Butterflies, Bees & Hummingbirds
(Time and details to be announced.)
Look Sharp
Feel Sharp
Be Sharp
Did you know that you can have your blades sharpened at Wedels?!

Take a look at these prices! 
  • Pruners - $5.00
  • Loppers - $5.00
  • Lawn mower blades - $6.00 (sorry, no reel mowers)
  • Mulching mower blades - $6.00
  • Hedge shears - $5.00  
  • Electric and cordless hedge shears - $10.00
  • Hoes, shovels and trowels - $3.00 
  • Larger items - we will quote a price 

(We don't sharpen chain saw blades.)  

 
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Saturday Mornings
  

Birdwatch 8:07 a.m.

with host Roger Taylor answering all of your birding questions 
Call in at 382-4280 or 877-382-4280. 

Over the Garden Fence
9:07 a.m.
with host Andy Wedel answering all of your landscape and gardening questions
Call in at 382-4280 or 877-382-4280.

Visit our web site at www.wedels.com for archives of previous Birdwatch and
Over the Garden Fence
programs!
 

  Note from the Editor   

 

 

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."  Charles Mingus, Jazz Musician, Band Leader, and Song-writer

 

Gardening, landscaping at home can sometimes be or seem to be a daunting task. There are so many plants to choose from and decisions to make about where to put what based on the needs of the plants (sunlight needed, soil preference, optimal pH, maintenance required). Add to that the characteristics of the plant (annual, perennial, blooming, non-blooming, height, spread, color of foliage/blossoms etc.) and it can all be quite confusing.

 

The best way to approach your project is to make it simple. Have a basic plan in mind but not one that is so rigid that, if your finished product looks nothing like what you had in mind, realize that's ok! Your plan will get you started and from there on enjoy the process. Start with a small area then add to it, at your own pace. Don't think you must get everything in place and looking established as quickly as possible. Creating a beautiful landscape isn't a race; there are no penalties for going slowly. Really, the true goal is to relax and have fun and be rewarded with the sense of being creative.

 

We are all busy and have to choose what we have time for. If all you can afford to invest is one weekend this spring or summer that's fine. If you can plan to use some time an evening or two or three a week to be in your garden areas, that's fine too. Maybe you are able to do some planting and maintenance work one Saturday each month - that will work. Often the best plan is to do what you can do when you can do it. Just like you don't need a rigid layout for your garden, you don't need a rigid gardening schedule to be successful. Gardening is a form of work but it should never be considered drudgery.

 

There's something else to remember. There is no right and no wrong as far as design is concerned. Well, in a way there is. If you like it, it's right. If you don't, it's wrong. This isn't watch making; it's art. Think of the work painters produce. There are styles I have no interest in and there are paintings done in other styles I could spend hours looking at. The paintings I don't particularly care for aren't wrong; the paintings I thoroughly enjoy aren't right. You are painting your landscape with trees, shrubs, flowers etc. You can't go wrong if whatever you do makes you happy.

 

You'll have questions. You won't want to plant something that requires full sunlight in the shadiest corner of your landscape. You probably don't want to plant something that grows to a height of 8" behind a shrub that grows to be 4' tall and 6' wide. That's where we come in. If you have the most basic plan (colors you like, particular plants you like, space you have available, whether you want annual plants or perennial plants or a mixture) we will be happy to show you all the things you can use to make your ideas come to life. We will let you know how best to maintain your work. We will give the information you need to you but we won't require you to learn the Latin names of all of your choices. In other words, we will make the complicated simple so you can successfully realize your dream - that's what we enjoy doing.  

 

Ready for another trivia question? Here we go! "Currants--small seedless grapes --were named for their place of origin. Just where was that?" The first reader to respond with the correct answer will win a $15.00 Wedel's gift card. The gift card must be picked up here at the garden center and remember, you are eligible to win once every 90 days. Good luck and have fun!   

  

'Til next time,

Jim    


    
"Wisteria woke me this morning, 
And there was all June in the garden; 
I felt them, early, warning 
Lest I miss any part of the day. 

Straight I walked to the trellis vine. 
Wisteria touched a lifted nostril: 
Feelings of beauty diffused, to entwine 
My spirit with June's own aura." 

-  Ann McGough, Summons