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...... melt along -- even though it following year's corn. combine fast-growing cropshornworm; catmint repels
Geel Bean vines also help stabi- with ones that mature moreaphids, Colorado potato bee-
means
some
wading.
wonder what Steve's doing.., lige corn plants and make slowly, tles and squash bugs; and
*** them less vulnerable to win& One such example is planti- sage drivesoff cabbage moths
: : I heard from Diane K. last Squash shades emerging ng leafy vegetables such as and carrot rust flies.
month. She reminded me that weeds and prevents soil spinach and lettuce with For "traps," plant collards
optimal width for raised beds moisture from evaporating, onions. By the time the onions with cabbages to draw dim-
ACCIDENTAL is 2 - 3 feet. I wrote in my becoming a living mulch, need the room taken by mondback moths away from
GARDENER column about a 5-foot width, Spiny squash plants can spinach and lettuce, gardeners the cabbage. Nasturtiums are
..................................... M()NAHiLL .................................... thinking of bunching the help keep hungry wildlife out will have already harvested the best-known trapping
Staff Writer corn together for better of the corn and beans -- well 'the faster maturing crops, flower, but nicotania will
mhi,@plumasnews.compollination, maybe not the deer or theAnother common inter- work as well.
Diane also reminded me rogue squirrel, planting practice is to mix These time-honored
Faithful readers will re- that it's relatively easy to Gardeners can choose to herbs and flowers into the • methods of planting went by
member my ingenious plan pollinate corn with a small incorporate leftover plant vegetable plot. High-nectar the wayside for the sake of
to overcome early March artist's paintbrush. She material from this planting flowers, such as sweet peas, efficiency and modernization.
snowfall. Before I coulcttake shakes the pollen into a small back into the soil at the end cosmos or larkspur will at- They are enjoying a revival as
action, mid-March and latecup, then uses the paintbrush of the season or add it to the tract pollinators. Color is also gardeners become more in-
March snowstorms struck to pollinate the heads. She compost heap. Either way,a good attractor: blue, yellow, terested in the old ways. A
with a vengeance, said it usually works or gardeners will have a good white, colorful riot of flowers, herbs
My garden site is under 3 gardeners can just give each supply of organic matter to Dill and parsley attract and vegetables creates bio-
feet of snow, and the mulch stalk a shake, boost soil nutrients:, beneficial insects such asdiversity and a gardener's
and assorted manures are Corn, beans and squash, Also known as intercrop- lacewing, ladybugs and refuge.
inaccessible. I'm relying on known in Native American ping, the practice of combin- ground beetles. They also ***
the higher-in-the-sky sun and lore as the Three Sisters, are ing multiple crops in a single like flowers from the aster A quick side note for gar-
promised warmer weather., great crops-for interplanting, bed maximizes growipg family, deners: The week after spring
Plans are nothing if not Corn provides a natural space. In addition to using Some crops also repel or break (April 4 - 8) Feather
adjustable; so I'm planning pole for climber bean varieties, different plant habits, as in trap the bad guys: anise River College is offering a
to stake out enough black Beans fix nitrogen and ira- the example of the Three ' hyssop repels cabbage moths; short course, ENVR 194 Cur-
plastic sheeting to help the prove overall fertility for the Sisters, gardeners can also borage discourages tomato rent Environmental Issues,
focusing this semester on cre-
ating a more sustainable, re-
silient community. As part of
that goal, students will create
a strategy to inventory and
salvage excess and hard-to-
reach fruit from trees around
Quincy and East Quincy.
In addition to fruit tree
pruning, the class will do
other hands-on projects like a
community garden work
blitz, receive cooking lessons
for cheap bulk staple foods
and learn about the Transi-
tion Initiative, community
assets inventories and time
banking.
The class is scheduled for
four dates: Tuesday, April 12,
from 6 - 9 p.m.; Friday, April
15. from 11 a.m. - 8 p.m4 and
all day Saturday and Sunday,
April 16 - 17.
To sign up for the class,
contact FRC at 283-0202. To
add your fruit trees to the
registry, contact Darla
DeRuiter at 283-0202, ext. 262
or dderuiter@frc.edu.
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Department of Water Re-
sources (DWR) hydrologists
announced March 30 that
The University of California
and the Northern California
Society of.American Foresters
will host a series of online pre-
sentations and field trips for
people who are passionate
about their local forests. The
Community Forest Webinar
Series runs from 6:30 to 8:30
p.m., Pacific Daylight Saving
Time, on April 7, 13, 20 and 27.
Field trips have been sched-
uled for May 7 to the Usal
Forest near Fort Bragg, May 15
in Weaverville, May 28 to the
Arcata Forest in Arcata
and June 25 to Tahoe-Donner
Forest near Truckee.
• Community forests are
forested lands that are man-
aged to produce valued
resources, such as lumber,
clean water, wildlife habitat
and recreation.
The webinar series will
present an overview of com-
munity forestry as it is
currently being practiced
in California. The intended
audience is natural resource
water content in California's
mountain snowpack is 165 per-
cent of the April i full
season average.
"Recent storms have signifi-
cantly contributed to the
managers, environmental andAmerican Foresters
forest activist groups, resi- Arcata Community Forest,
dents of forested regions by Mark Andre, city of Arcata
who might benefit from a com- Department of Environmental
munity forest approach in Services
their areas a~]d the general April 13: Stewardship Con-
public concerned with forest tracting on Federal Lands, by
management. Marcus Kaufmann, consultant,
Funding support for the Eugene, Ore.
program was provided by the Weaverville Community
USDA Forest Service and the Forest, by Pat Frost, Trinity
University of California. County Resource Conservation
To participate, register on District, Weaverville
the program website, ucanr.org/ April 20: The Role of Non-
community forests. Each reg- profit Organizations in Com-
istrant will receive a follow-up munity Forestry, by Lynn
email with the URL for logging Jungwirth, Hayfork Water-
into the webinars. Several sites shed Research and Training
for group viewing of the webi- Center
nat are being established at Usal Redwood Forest, by Art
Resource Conservation Dis- Harwood, Redw~O~ :~orest
trict and UC Cooperative Foundation, Bran~b
Extension facilities. April 27: Community
Topics to be covered during Forestry in Multilandowner
the webinars are: Landscapes, .by Mike De
April 7: Community Forests Lasaux, UC Cooperative Exten-
in California: Introduction sion, Quincy
and Overview, by Richard R. Tahoe-Donner Homeowners'
Harris, Ph.D., RPF #1961, Association, by Bill Houdy-
Northern California Society of shell, forester, Truckee
above-average snowpack, help- in real-time by electronic A majority of the state's
ing to stabilize California's wa- sensors, major reservoirs are above
ter supply for the year," said Last week's manual survey normal storage levels for the
DWR Director Mark Cowin. and electronic readings are the date. Lake Oroville in Butte
"While this is beneficial for most important of the year, County, the State Water Pro-
California's farms, businesses • since April 1 is when the ject's (SWP) principal reser-
and communities, we remind state's snowpack normally isvoir, is 104 percent of average
residents to practice sensible at its peak before it melts into for the date (80 percent of its 3.5
water use and conservation streams and reservoirs in the million acre-foot capacity).
as we transition to warmer spring and summer months. Lake Shasta north of Red-
weather." March precipitation has ding, the federal Central Val-
After the snowpack readings helped register 2011 among the ley Project's largest reservoir,
were in, Gov. Jerry Browntop years in sdowpack water with a capacity of 4.5 million
officially rescinded former content, despite dry weatheracre-feet, is at 111percent of my-
Governor Schwarzenegger'sconditions in January and ear- erage (91 percent of capacity).
emergency proclamations and ly February. DWR estimates it will be
executive order issued in 2008 The mountain snowpack able to deliver 70 percent of re-
and 2009 relating to water provides apprOximately one- quested SWP water this year.
shortage associated with the third of the water for Califor- The estimate likely will be ad-
drought, but- urged Californi- nia's households, industry and justed upward as hydrologists
ans to keep conserving water farms as it melts into streams make adjustments for snow-
as they move into the spring and reservoirs, pack and runoff readings.
and summer months. Electronic readings indicateIn 2010, the SWP delivered 50
"While this season's storms that water content in percent of a requested 4,172,126
have lifted us out of thethe northern .mountains acre-feet, up from a record-low
drought, it's critical that is 174 percent of the April 1 sea- initial projection of 5 percent
Californians continue to sonalaverage ..... due to lingering effects of the
" watch their water use," Brown Electronic rea'~iings for the 2007 - 09 drought. Deliveries
said. "Drought or no drought, central Sierrashow 163 per- were 60 percent of requests in
demand for water in California cent of the April 1 average.2007, 35 percent in 2008 and 40
always outstrips supply. The number for the south- percent in 2009.
Continued conservation isern Sierra is 158 percenL The : The last 100 percentalloca-
key." statewide number is 165 per-tion --- difficult to achieve even
Snowpack water content iscent. in wet years due to pumping
measured both manually, on California's reservoirs are restrictions to protect threat-
or near the first of the month fed both by rain andsnowpackened and endangered fish --
from January• to May, andrunoff, wasin2006.
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