planting at the ymca 6:30 p.m., wednesday, may 24,...
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Planting at the YMCA 1740 S. Huron Road, Green Bay, WI 54311
6:30 p.m., Wednesday, May 24, 2017
Dear Fellow Gardeners,
I want to thank David Calhoon of Swanstone Gardens for hosting our April meeting. The tour through the gardens and all the beautiful spring wildflowers in bloom were spectacular. The rain held off and it turned into a wonderful evening.
Next I want to give a round of applause and a big thanks to Betty Cox for all her hard work putting together this year’s Asparagus Fest. It was awesome! I think it was one of the best ones we have
see that there is some work ahead to be done. Ritalyn, Rose, Carl, and I went out there on Monday the 8th and came up with some ideas for the plants that we will use on Wednesday, May 24. So bring your garden gloves, shovels, and anything else that you may need. We will be digging in the dirt. Hope to see every-one there. It should be fun!
Take care and happy planting—Scott Casperson
04/26/2017 Minutes
Next Month’s Program 2
Officers and Chairpersons
Club/Member News 3
Garden Club Schedule
GBBG Events 4
Celebrate Asparagus!
Event Report and Photos 5
Liquid Gold—Knowing Honey
Our Wisconsin Bees 6
New Leaf Market
Did You Know? 7
Advertisers 7-8
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
Tiller
The May 2017
Volume 35, No. 5
Refreshments Ritalyn Arps Betty Cox
Shirley Winnes
From the President . . .
put together. The representation of our Club was great. Thanks to every-one that worked putting it on.
Now that we are in the start of the growing season, I am sure everyone is busy in their gardens. This time of year there is so much to get done. With some warmer weather, we should see the rewards of our efforts.
Our next meeting will be a workshop at the YMCA on Huron Drive. This will be our focus project for the next couple of years. If any-one has been there, you can
It’s a work night at the YMCA. We’ll be planting at the site so dress accordingly. Bring work gloves, trowels, shovels . . . we will dig in the dirt!
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Discussions were finalized on the asparagus event for April 29th at the Green Bay Botanical Garden.
New ideas for volunteers to decide on the plants for the YMCA will be May 8th. These will be planted at the May 24th meeting.
The Plants of the Bible that was planned for April 27th was cancelled by the speaker because of an emergency. Plans are for having it in 2018.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:05; motion made by Perry Sieloff and seconded by Mary Vandermause.
Marge Labs, Secretary
The Green Bay Gardeners Club members met at 6:30 on Wed., April 26, at Swanstone Gardens. David Calhoon gave us a tour of his gardens which we were impressed with—the many wild flowers, plants, and unusual trees; also, many metal sculptures, statues, and interesting signs; the bubbling brook made it relaxing to hear the water rushing through the woods. David also has classrooms built in the area that you can come to attend for the differ-ent craft subjects that are taught. The tour was very much enjoyed by everyone. Thank you, David.
President Scott Casperson brought the meeting together at 7:30. Members present: 18; guests: 8.
Tiller minutes approved. Treasurer's report was approved with motion made by Carl Christensen and seconded by Marsha May.
Meeting Minutes - 04/26/2017
What’s Coming Up? June Meeting—Carl Christensen’s Roses
Carl Christensen and Marge Labs invite you
to tour their yard on June 28th at 206 East
River Dr., De Pere, WI.
You will see a large variety of roses in
containers that are designed so that you
can see how to arrange around your patio,
deck, swimming pool or balcony. There are
tree roses, climbing David Austin English
roses, Easy Elegance Proven, Proven
Winners plus many more to look at. Come
and see how to grow beautiful roses and
preserve your cut roses.
Carl and Marge have won many blue ribbons at the State Fair and rose convention shows. Carl is a consulting rosarian with the American Rose Society.
What are David Austin roses? Though not officially
recognized as a separate class of roses by, for
instance, the Royal National Rose Society or the
American Rose Society, they are nonetheless
commonly referred to by rosarians, at nurseries,
and in horticultural literature as 'English Roses' or
'Austin Roses'. David Austin Roses are bred by
crossing old garden roses with more modern roses
to achieve the superb fragrance, delicacy and
charm of the old-style blooms combined with the
repeat flowering characteristics and wide color
range of modern roses. Some English varieties are
extra vigorous in warm areas as very large shrubs
and some may want to become semi-climbers.
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Club and Member News . . . The Gardeners Club of Green Bay
Officers and Chairpersons
President Scott Casperson, 920-435-1780 [email protected]
Vice President Judy Nighorn, 920-865-4311 [email protected]
Secretary Marge Labs 920-425-3224
Treasurer Perry Sieloff, 920-435-1780 1247 Emilie Street Green Bay, WI 54301 [email protected]
Past President
Carl Christensen, 920-425-3224 [email protected]
Membership and Public Relations Ritalyn Arps, 336-0225 [email protected]
Sunshine Ruth Goeben, 920-494-3008
Tiller Editor, Website Manager, and
TGOA-MGCA National Photography
Competition and Calendar Chairperson Shirley Winnes, 920-499-4441 [email protected]
Historian Barb Vandersteen, 920-435-0568 [email protected]
Civic Projects and Fund Raising
Asparagus Sale Betty Cox, 920-468-8693 [email protected]
Silver Trowel Scott Casperson, 920-435-1780 [email protected]
Inventory Control and
Education and Plant Records
———————-Open———————-
House and Program Paul Hartman/Carl Christensen [email protected]
Refreshments Coordinators Sue Rohan, 920-336-3004 [email protected] Mary Naumann, 920-866-2282 [email protected]
Clara McGarity thanks all club members who
sent cards or phone calls with kind words of
comfort during the illness of her sister.
Membership Booklet—Addition Please add Jim LaLuzerne’s name to your member-
ship booklet. His name was inadvertently omitted
from the list. He is a member along with his wife,
Sandra.
Please let Shirley Winnes and our treasurer, Perry
Sieloff, know any changes in addresses or phone
numbers to keep our membership list up to date.
Fall Regional Meeting The fall regional meeting will be sponsored by the
Boone County Gardeners of America and held on Saturday, October 7, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in
Belvidere, Illinois. The program features “Northern
Illinois Birds of Prey” by Candy Ridlbauer. More
details will be available nearer to the date.
Articles for next month’s issue of the Tiller
are due by June 10. Send to Shirley Winnes at
[email protected] or to [email protected].
TGOA-MGCA 2017 Photography Entries Judged Thank you to our members Lee
and Louise Hansen for helping
out with the photo judging on
Wednesday, May 10. Lee acts as
a consultant to verify that all
plant names are correct and
advises the judges as to horticultural attributes as
represented in the photographs. The judges included
Marc Amenson (Marc and Shayna Amenson Studio),
CJ Janus, retired NWTC photographer, and Suzanne
Cravillion (Sue’s Photos). Each judge rates the
photos on a 1-5 scale; scores are added to
determine the best entries in 13 categories. As a
committee, the judges select the winner of each
category and from these 13 photos, select the Best
of Show, First Runner-Up, and Second Runner-Up. The entrant with the most points wins the
Sweepstakes Award. Each judge also selects one
favorite photo to be named the Judge’s Choice
Award. There were 137 photos entered in this year’s
competition. Winners will be announced at the
national convention in Cleveland in July.
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Coming Attractions Sponsored by the Green Bay Botanical Garden
Call 920-490-9457 or see http://www.gbbg.org for complete information, reservations,
and cost about any of the following:
Mother’s Day, May 14, 9 a.m.– 7 p.m. Free admission to the Garden for all moms.
Members Only Tour: Garden Sculptures, May 16, 5-6:30 p.m. Free but reservations needed. Did you know that GBBG is home to over 30 sculptures? Join Executive Director, Susan Garot, as she takes us on a leisurely stroll through the Garden introducing you to Daisy, Bailey, Chauncey, and more!
TasteBud, May 18, 5-8 p.m. Savor, sip and support Green Bay Botanical Garden’s TasteBud. Indulge in a sampling of delights from Green Bay area restaurants and caterers. Stroll through over 250,000 spring blooms. Sip botanical cocktails, wines, and brews at the cash bar. Enjoy live music by Shawn Connelly & Dan Rafferty. Bid on breathtaking planters, garden art, restaurant packages, and more at the silent auction. $40/GBBG Member; $55/Non-Member. Reservations required by Friday, May 12.
Native Prairie Plants to Attract Pollinators, May 25, 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m. Justin Kroenig, Stone Silo Prairie Gardens. Learn about the great native plants to introduce to your landscape to attract pollinators – birds, bees, butterflies and more! Register by May 18.
Memorial Day, May 29, 9 a.m.-7 p.m., free admission for all military personnel and veterans.
Repotting Orchids, June 6, 6-8 p.m., Mary Stewart, Goin’ To Pot Orchids. Learn the basics of repotting orchids the right way. Attendees may bring 1 orchid, not flowering and in no larger than 6” pot to replant. Orchids and supplies will be available for purchase at class. Limit 10 participants.
Intro to Bonsai, June 15, 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m., Bay Area Bonsai Society. Are you intrigued by bonsai trees? Would you like to learn some of the history of bonsai and see how bonsai trees are created? Or, has someone given you a bonsai as a gift and you would like to learn how to care for it? Members of the Bay Area Bonsai Society will discuss the history of bonsai as an art form/horticultural method. They will also demonstrate how bonsai may be created from nursery plants and other garden material. Care tips and techniques will be reviewed and questions from participants will be answered.
The Gardeners Club of Green Bay
Upcoming Schedule of 2017 Meetings
May 24...............Planting at the YMCA on Huron Road
June 28 .............Roses, Carl Christensen’s Yard
July 26 ..............2016 Silver Trowel Home (Yard Tour)
Aug. 23 ..............Picnic, Betty Cox’s Home
Sept. 27 ............Autumn Color, Vijai Pandian
Oct. 25 ..............Brag Night – How Did Your Garden Grow?
Dec. 6 .................Christmas Traditions, Nancy Hamann
Special Events April 29 .............Celebrate Asparagus!
July 19-21 .......TGOA-MGCA National Convention, Cleveland, Ohio “The Gardening Scene in 2017”
Sept. 9 ...............Fall Family Art Festival at GBBG
Sept. 16 .............Farmers Market - Large Produce Weigh-in and Sunflower Measurements
Oct. 7 .................Farmers Market - Pumpkin Weigh-in and Sunflower Measurements
Nov. 10 ...............Harvest Banquet
Green Bay Botanical Garden
BMO Harris Bank Getaway Wednesdays
Wednesdays, June 7 – August 30
Cookouts | 11 am–1 pm Take advantage of a midday refresh by spending your lunch break surrounded by the beauty of nature! All produce is grown at the Garden in partnership with the N.E.W. Master Gardeners Association. Free admission with the purchase of lunch. $5/GBBG Member; $9/Non-Member
Children’s Discovery Station | 4–6 pm Join us in the Nielsen Children’s Garden for free, nature-themed, hands-on activities for your family to enjoy. Supported in part by Schreiber and Green Bay Preble Optimist Foundation, Inc.
Free Admission | 4–8 pm Enjoy a picnic, play in the Nielsen Children’s Garden, check out a S.E.E.D. Pack and even search for Pokémon!
Garden to Glass: Cocktails with
Tunes | 6–7:30 pm A weekly event series with a unique theme each month. Guests enjoy specialty cocktails, beer, wine and live music. Fresh ingredients from the Garden will give your craft cocktail experience a scent and taste to remember! Sorry, no alcoholic beverage carry-ins.
Celebrate Asparagus! Event Report
by Shirley Winnes
MAY 2017 PAGE 5
Kudos to Betty Cox, 18+ years selling asparagus crowns for our club!
Going back through garden club newsletters, Betty was selling aspara-
gus crowns in 2000 and probably a few years before that—I became a
member in 1999, so I’m not sure when she started. In 2010, we held
the first Celebrate Asparagus event at the Extension. It was Betty’s idea
after selling crowns to customers who picked them up from her house
for 10 years, that we might try to have the crowns available at the
Extension and offer other items for sale and sponsor other activities.
Well . . . this developed into having cooking demonstrations, a brunch
with asparagus soup, horticulture demonstrations, the addition of selling
sweet potatoes and rhubarb, plants from our gardens, gently used garden treasures, even music
entertainment one year. Then . . . there was the year that Betty didn’t make it home from a trip to
The Netherlands due to
the Iceland volcano erup-tion! Everyone pitched in,
and we carried out the
event successfully.
This year’s event has been
a challenge after learning
that the Extension would
not be available for the
event. Changing the loca-
tion to the GBBG cost the
club $250 for the event to be held there. Then it was
difficult getting the word out in the Press Gazette. Betty is knee
deep in leftover sweet potato plants and asparagus crowns. All
in all, however, it appears we will not have a loss but certainly
not the proceeds we were able to earn in past years. We had
leftover soup but cleared $102 above the cost of the soup. We
donated $70.50 worth of leftover soup to the Community
Shelter—they picked it up from GBBG. Thank you to all who
brought plants for sale—they yielded $109; $13 was made on
the fresh asparagus and $11 on the photo cards. Betty is still
selling crowns and sweet
potatoes, so she will have
details later.
So not to leave anyone out
by listing all who helped—
THANK YOU EVERYONE WHO
HELPED IN ANY WAY by
bringing items, helping set
up and taking down, clerk-ing, greeting customers, etc.
We will need to assess our
efforts to see if we can con-
tinue this activity in the
future.
Jim Beard presented “Organic
Gardening: Beds, Buckets, Bales,
and Brews.
Patti Nellis explained how to care for
and plant milkweed seeds.
Thank you to everyone you brought
pies and desserts. Ruth Goeben
helped serve. Ritalyn Arps had free pumpkin
and sunflower seeds for children.
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Our Wisconsin Bees
This is a continuation of information about bees from
last month’s issue:
The Umbrella Wasp These are very similar to yellow jackets,
but they have a thin waist between their
abdomen and thorax, unlike the tightly
joined abdomen and waist of the yellow
jacket. They are large wasps, usually
about one inch long, mostly organgish-
brown in color. These bees are typically
building their nests under the eaves of
your house. Most likely to be called the paper wasp
with the grey round paper nest they make. Same as
the yellow jacket, the queen hibernates alone in
winter, while the rest of the colony dies.
Bald-Face Hornet This hornet is more closely related
to the wasp than the hornet. The
black/white marking make it the
most distinguished bee. Their nest
is the gray paper, round,
football size nest typically
hanging from a branch. As
with the other wasps, the
queen winters alone to start a
new colony in the spring. The
bald-face hornet is a
carnivorous bee. They prey on insects, including the
mosquito and spiders. Adults will drink flower nectar
which they feed to their larvae.
Source: Wikipedia and Wayne Gerdts, Nature’s
Pathways, October 2016, p. 35. (contributed by Agnes
Schussman)
Liquid Gold—Knowing Honey
Did you know . . .
Just one worker honey bee makes only 1/12th
of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime?
Almost all honey bought from your local
grocery store isn’t honey by definition?
It’s true!
Pure honey, honey that comes straight from the
bee hive, contains pollen, amino acids, protein,
beneficial vitamins and enzymes that are removed
when honey is processed and pasteurized. The FDA
states that any product that’s been ultra-filtered
and no longer contains pollen, is not honey.
How do you know what you are buying? This is a
good question. The FDA rules for labeling honey
are non-binding recommendations. According to
their website (www.fda.gov), they recommend that
any honey that contains anything other than honey
must be labeled as such. So, any honey that
contains a sweetener such as sugar or corn syrup,
or a natural flavoring ingredient such as raspberry
is recommended to be listed on the label.
When buying honey, the best source for pure,
unadulterated honey is a local beekeeper. Most
beekeepers extract the honey straight from their
hives, filter or strain for particles and then bottle. If
you don’t know of a local beekeeper, check the
internet for bee clubs or associations in your area.
Chances are club members are willing to sell
honey.
The health benefits of honey, pollen, propolis and
royal jelly are numerous. The use of these products
particularly honey, goes back 8,000 years. Since
then, much as been learned about these products.
Pollen is what gives honey its health benefits.
Without pollen, honey would be nothing more than
sweetened syrup.
The USDA also grades honey. Their grading scale is
based on color and taste. The white to clear honey
is rated the highest, dark amber honey is rated as
the lowest or bakers grade honey. To me, it’s a
matter of personal preference. Each has its own
unique flavor, the darker honey being the most
robust in flavor, like a buckwheat.
Raw, unprocessed honey has an indefinite shelf
life. It can be preserved for centuries and still be
edible. Honey can however ferment if exposed to
moisture. Also, there is a myth that crystalized honey is
no longer good. On the contrary, crystalized honey
makes for spreading it on toast that much easier!
However, if you are are not fond of the crystals, the
remedy is to melt it out, but not over heating it. The
simple trick of boiling a pan of water, then turning the
pan off and placing your jar in the water generally
melts it without losing the benefits.
Source: Wayne Gerdts, Nature’s Pathways, November
2016, p. 31.
Wayne Gerdts is a 3rd generation beekeeper in
Wisconsin. He ran a commercial beekeeping business
with 3,000 colonies. Currently, he owns Honey Bee
Ware, which is a beekeeper equipment and supply
store in Greenville, WI, and runs 60 colonies of bees.
He is very passionate about the honey bee and its
honey. Follow him on facebook.com/honeybeeware or
mobile.twitter.com/honeybeeware. Visit the store at
shop.honeybeeware.com.
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Garden Talk with Larry Meiller Wisconsin Public Radio
88.1 Green Bay
11 a.m. Fridays 7 a.m. Saturdays
New Leaf Market On May 2, New Leaf Market Co-op was approved
for a $250,000 Brown County Revolving Loan! To
celebrate, current members and guests who
might be interested in membership are invited to:
Update Celebration & Rally Thursday, May 18, 2017
6:30-8:30 PM Brickhouse Craft Burgers & Brews
500 Grant St., De Pere Free Appetizers, Cash Bar
Increasing the number of member-owners is the
last step to reaching the total financing goal. New
Leaf Market Co-op already has 900 member-
owners. To meet the county loan requirements,
600 more member-owners are needed to begin
construction by September. To purchase a share
is $180, a one-time cost. Everyone can shop at
New Leaf Market! You don’t have to be a member
-owner to enjoy the high quality food, fair prices
and educational information provided by New Leaf Foods. You just get added perks if you are.
To find out more information, see the website
www.newleafmarket.org.
Did You Know? Ripe cranberries will bounce like rubber
balls.
An average ear of corn has an even number of rows, usually 16.
Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas.
There are over 7,500 varieties of apples throughout the world, and it would take you 20 years to try them all if you had one each day.
Canola oil was originally called rapeseed oil, but renamed by the Canadian oil industry in 1978 to avoid negative conno-tations. Canola is short for Canadian oil.
Oklahoma designated watermelon as the official state vegetable in 2007. Every-where else it is considered a fruit, but in Oklahoma the watermelon has been offi-cially declared a vegetable. And not just any vegetable, Oklahoma's house of repr-esentatives voted to award the watermelon the honor of official state vegetable.
***Stranger than fiction!***
Affiliated with The Gardeners of America/Men’s Garden Clubs of America
National website: www.tgoa-mgca.org Local website: http://gardenclubgreenbay.weebly.com American Horticulture Society website: http://ahs.org
The Gardeners Club of Green Bay was begun
in 1967 and became chartered in 1968 by
the Men’s Garden Clubs of America (now The
Gardeners of America, Inc./The Men’s
Garden Clubs of America, Inc.).
Purpose and objectives of our club:
to educate its members and the public
and to promote interest in horticulture per-
taining to home gardening,
to acquire and disseminate horticultural
knowledge in regard to materials, plans,
and ideas in connection with home gar-
dens to and for the benefit of individuals
and communities,
and to encourage and promote civic inter-
est and pride in individuals and communi-
ties, and to encourage and promote pride
in individual or private gardens, commun-
ity plantings, and parks.
Membership is extended to serious gardeners
who have a concern for the above objectives
of the organization. Membership categories
and dues for 2017 are
1. $25 per individual,
2. $35 per family,
3. lifetime: $200; $5 annual local dues.
In addition to the tiller, members receive a
national newsletter.
At the national level, a photography contest is
held each year with photographs selected to
use for a calendar, five annual $1,000 scho-
larships are presented, Youth Gardening and
Gardening from the Heart programs are
implemented, a national convention is held,
and much more.
At the local level, members are involved with
numerous community institutions through
financial support and contributions of labor
and plant materials. Silver Trowel awards are
given to recognize contributions to com-
munity beautification, four awards are given
to youth in the Big Sunflower and Big
Pumpkin contests, and much more.
Shirley A. Winnes
Tiller Editor
301 David Drive
Green Bay WI 54303
The Gardeners Club of Green Bay