THANKS
Thanks to Helen Dupouy for bringing her own delicious cookies to the March meeting
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Dues are payable for 2007 – only $5.00!
Cape Cod Organic Gardeners
PO Box BOX 464
Cummaquid, MA 02637
If you wish to continue to receive CCOG news, you must pay your dues!
CCOG NEWSLETTER ONLINE
Cape Cod Organic Gardeners is now online. You can add comments, suggestions and links at the CCOG website. To read the CCOC newsletter on the web go to http://ccog.wordpress.com/
Save a tree! To get the newsletter online via email instead of paper mail, email polotka@cape.com
GREEN TIPS
Winter Moths – Recommendations for Control
This information is from a recent seminar at The Country Garden Garden Center. Because it is impractical to spray trees over 25-30 feet tall, it is more advantageous to concentrate on specimen trees, shrubs and fruit trees. Winter moths feed on deciduous trees and shrubs and adore fruit trees. Applying the proper products at the right time in the moths’ life cycle is key.
Step 1 – Late March-Early April – Apply Horticultural oil on tree trunks and branches to kill over-wintering eggs.
Step 2 – Late April through May – When caterpillars are visible, spray with either Thuricide Bt or Spinosad. Both are environmentally friendly, but do not spray when plants are in full bloom, to protect bees. Thuricide works only for the first two weeks or so that caterpillars are out. Spinosad works throughout the period. Bt is more economical to use.
If trees are defoliated by caterpillars, make sure they are watered deeply once a week if there is not enough rain. Fertilizing these stressed trees is not recommended.
Email your “Green Tips” to polotka@cape.com or post online at http://www.ccog.wordpress.com or send to Peter Olotka, 56 Richard’s Ln, Centerville, MA 02632
CALENDAR
SAVE THESE DATES!
April 14 – Saturday – 2-4 PM
Kelly Barn – Second Bulk Order for members who ordered seed potatoes, onions and shallots
April 19 – Thursday – 7 PM
CCOG Meeting at the Wheldon Library, RT. 149 W. Barnstable. Seed saving and/or video of Keynote speaker, Sister Macgillis, of NOFA summer conference. Her topic – “Seeing a Flourishing Planet Where We Choose to Restore and Heal What We Have Poisoned and Violated. Earth Will Heal”
May 5 – Saturday – 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Annual Plant Sale at Kelly Farmstand on Rt 6A, Cummaquid
Drop off your seedlings, perennials and herbs on Friday, May 4, 3:00 – 6:00 PM. Please mark container with masking tape, naming the variety and if open pollinated. Leave room for us to price. Call 508 362-8136 if you can help on Friday or Saturday.
May 17 – Thursday – 7:00 PM
CCOG Meeting at the Wheldon Library, Rt 149, W. Barnstable
Our member Patsy Hardie will share with us information on growing and using herbs. She has studied with Rosemary Gladspar in Vermont and has grown and used herbs for over 30 years.
GARDEN TOURS
June 3 – Sunday 3:30 PM
Rockspray Nursery, 2 Truruo Center Rd. Carpool at Kelly Barn, 6 Marstons Ln., Cummaquid, at 2:45 PM. 508 362-8136. This is Dave Dewitt’s (our March speaker) enterprise.
June 24 – 3:30 PM Sunday
“The Hedge House” Peter Hughs, 455 Rt 6A, Corner of West Yarmouth Rd, Yarmouthport. (opp. The playground). 508 362-8974. Peter’s gardens are entirely organic. He will show us perennial, rose and Japanese woodland gardens.
