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Springville Journal / Saturday, November 15, 2014
A little planning saves much work
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If you have ever tried to convert a patch of lawn into a garden bed, you know how much work it is to dig out all that grass. In addition, you lose so much soil because it clings to the clumps of grass. Start now and save yourself a lot of work. Spread out a thick layer of newspaper or cardboard where you want your garden bed to be. By spring, the grass and weeds will be dead and you can go ahead and plant. Simple! Don’t forget about lasagna gardening. I told you about it this spring after I heard a talk by Kate Johnson of East Concord at the Western New York Dairy/ Agricultural Festival, in Springville. In lasagna gardening, you apply material to your garden bed in layers. Start with a layer of cardboard or newspaper. Over the top of that, you alternate layers of grass clippings, leaves, peat moss, manure or whatever you’ve got. You need to build it up so it’s a foot deep. In the spring, you split the layers and place the plant or seeds right in there. The layers of material will compact down over the growing season. What had been a garden bed that was a foot tall will be flush with the rest of the soil. You can do lasagna gardening on top of a lawn, but it’s also good if you have poor, clay soil. This is a great project to get done now, but Johnson said you can lay down the layers of a lasagna garden in spring if you want. If you can’t get outside now, here’s one more variation that you can use in the
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Elaine Clutterbuck, of Buffalo, uses this trick to start a new garden bed over lawn. In the spring, cover the area with newspaper, landscape fabric and mulch. Plant perennials in decorative pots and set the pots on top of the mulch. In the fall, you can plant the perennials in your new garden bed.
spring to start a garden bed on top of a lawn. I got this tip from Elaine Clutterbuck, on the Parkside Garden Tour in June. If you went on the tour, you might not have seen her garden. People like to go to the houses that are clustered together, and her garden was an outlier with only one other garden nearby. Tip: Next year on garden walks, visit some of those gardens that are far apart from each other. The gardeners will be thrilled to have visitors, you’ll miss the crowds, there will be time to chat with the gardener and you can see some spectacular gardens. What Clutterbuck does is set down several layers of newspaper, then she covers the newspaper with black landscape cloth. Finally, she covers it all with mulch to make it look nice.
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Next, she chooses the perennials that she wants to eventually plant in that bed. She plants the perennials in large decorative containers and places the pots on top of the mulch. The plants flower in the pots during the summer, and they really look great. It doesn’t seem like a space that is waiting for a garden, it looks like a lovely garden. In the autumn, grass and weeds will be dead and the
garden bed will be ready for planting. She takes the perennials out of the pots and plants them in the bed. Use any of these methods to save yourself some work when you want to convert a patch of lawn into a garden. Connie Oswald Stofko is publisher of Buffalo-NiagaraGardening.com, the online gardening magazine for Western New York. Email Connie@BuffaloNiagaraGardening.com.
County officials will not get pay raises The Erie County Legislature has voted against the Citizens Salary Review Commission’s recommendation to raise the salaries for the countyofficials. Legislators unanimously opposed the raises at the Nov. 6 session. “Prior to taking this vote, the Majority Caucus reached out to our constituents to get their opinion. In an online poll, 85 percent of voters said they do not support the raises. The Legislature agrees and voted down the recommendations, denying pay raises for elected officials,” said Chairman John Mills. The Legislature voted on each recommendation individually, voting against each proposed pay raise. “It would have been inappropriate to raise the salaries when many taxpayers haven’t received raises at their jobs because of our struggling economy. The Legislature could not support the recommendations,” said Majority Leader Joseph Lorigo. The commission completed its report in October and recommended the following: county executive - $103,248 to $126,400, a 22 percent increase; sheriff - $79,092 to $102,400, a 29 percent increase; comptroller - $80,613 to $98,750, a 22 percent increase; and the clerk - $79,092 to $91,800, a 16 percent increase. “The question has been asked if raising the salaries would attract more qualified candidates and I believe that those who chose to run for office should do so to serve the people, not because of the salary. Holding public office is a privilege and the salaries are known when someone chooses to seek office,” said Legislator Lynne Dixon.
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