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Thursday, July 25, 2019
Master gardener provides the weekly green thumb checklist
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Mid Valley TiMes
By Judith Parker
Master gardener
Here’s your garden checklist for July 25.
Forget the guilt about what’s going on outside. It’s not your fault that it’s hot!
Tasks:
Check sprinklers and adjust timers weekly if necessary. Pre-irrigate to soften the ground for tilling in preparation for fall gardens. Pruning:
Prune apricot, oleander and olive trees during dry weather to reduce future disease problems.
Fertilizing:
Cut back on fertilizer when water is limited and landscape plants remain in drought-survival mode.
Planting:
Avoid planting annuals and perennials unless it is absolutely necessary. Bulbs, corms, tubers: autumn crocus. Fruits and vegetables: broccoli, cabbage, carrot, cauliflower, plant from seed. Consult the California Garden Web for more information. Enjoy now:
Annuals and perennials: fibrous begonia (Begonia semperflorens), vinca (Catharanthus), cockscomb (Celosia), morning glory (Convolvulus tricolor). Bulbs, corms, tubers: dahlia. Trees, shrubs, vines: trumpet vine (Campsis), hydrangea, morning glory (Ipomoea). Fruits and vegetables: eggplant, fig, garlic, grapes. Things to ponder:
Keep water away from trunks of trees and crowns
of plants.
Drought tip: Preserve
the largest climate- appropriate plants in the landscape. Mature trees and large shrubs may take many years or even decades to replace, while groundcovers, lawns, flower beds and vegetable gardens can be re-established in a season or two.
Source: Adapted from “A Gardener’s Companion for the Central San Joaquin Valley,” third edition, currently available from Fresno County Master Gardeners for $30.
Judith Parker is a master gardener and writes a weekly checklist for home gardeners. The Master Gardener Program, under the University of California
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center. For me, this is my dream. I make the food. I sell the dress. Make the decorations. Everything.”
And Padilla has been in business so long that she’s known by many in the Sanger community and beyond. A parent of one of the Sanger Stars athletes said she babysat him in his younger years. He was 36. Like Padilla, he lived in Parlier. “She’s got a big house, big lot,” he said.
Padilla said she’s lived in that house 49 years, one year less than she’s been married to husband Antonio. Both of them are 69.
California is the eighth best state in which to start a business, according to a
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This purple flower I found in Fred Johns' garden up in Anchorage, Alaska earlier this summer.
Jekyll & Hyde showing at River City Theatre
Cooperative Extension, is designed to provide
recent report by WalletHub, a credit services company. And the state is No. 3 in “business environment.” However, the state ranks close to last, No. 46, in business costs. That’s one worse than Alaska, where everything has to be shipped from somewhere else — except crude oil, fish and raw timber.
That means California can be costly to do business.
Padilla monitors costs closely. She said she can live cheaply.
She said initially she bought her store with the thought that son Tony could work there. And he did, at first. “He’d come to the store,” she said.
But her women clients didn’t want to buy certain merchandise from a man, he told her. Back then, she had a big selection of women’s clothing, including undergarments. She laughed when she recounted the story.
Some customers still work in the fields, picking grapes or picking plums. Some work in packing houses. They come and catch up with Padilla to talk about their families or other happenings.
Tony said his mom will work around her customers if necessary. He was cutting hair as he mentioned this as was Eddie Gomez Jr. “She’s
research-based information to help manage home
always willing to come in on her off hours,” Gomez said, not missing a snip on his client’s hair.
“All the time,” Tony said.
“She even brings barbers breakfast,” Gomez said. “Every day.”
And she loves her family, Tony said. “Sometimes if we need it she helps out,” he said. “She does catering, too.”
Tonyisabigfanofher cooking. He and Gomez proceeded to discuss various recipes and their favorites. It was a discussion they likely have frequently.
Helping out appears to have come natural to Padilla. She said her oldest daughter, Linda, lost her husband when he was in his 20s. She had four children, the youngest about 6 months. Linda never remarried and worked hard to take care of those kids. Although Padilla didn’t elaborate on her role in the upbringing, she said all the kids have done well and become successful.
Padilla also has four children. Tony has three sisters.
Padilla said she preferred being a merchant to working in agriculture. She said her husband still works in the fields. She started her business at her house, eventually expanding into
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the swap meets. She did the swap meet circuit about 15 years before buying Baby Town. She said she no longer does swap meets.
One morning, Padilla took care of her great granddaughter, 2-year- old Demmi. The little girl knew the store and was familiar with the process of her grandmother’s job. When customers came in, she played quietly or stood next to Padilla.
When a break came up and no clients were around, Padilla painted her tiny fingernails. Demmi watched closely.
Maybe she’ll be running the store some day.
The reporter can be contacted by email at nemethfeatures@gmail.com or at (559) 875-2511.
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pain of seeing what could have been the beginning to an end to a long story.
As it turns out, the limb falling may have been a blessing. “I was so afraid someone would be swimming and that (the tree limb) would just fall off,” said Vi. “Thank God no one was in there when it fell.”
Tree trimmers were out on a recent afternoon to extract the large limb from the Riano’s pool and trim back the broken section that remained on the tree.
However, to the Rianos’ delight, the tree only needed a trimming. And because oak trees are known to live an average of 200 years, some even longer, there’s a good chance the Rianos’ oak tree will live on for another 86 years.
In the meantime, their home has plenty of firewood for the upcoming winter season.
By Juanita Adame
Mid Valley Times
It’s been a busy two weeks for the cast and crew of Reedley’s River City Theatre as they begin to wrap up performances of Jekyll and Hyde.
The musical, showing now at the local theatre, opened on July 12 and will run through July 28.
“The story is about man’s duality, good versus evil, right versus wrong and one man’s struggle with that,” said Jeff Lusk.
Reedley native Michael Angel plays the lead role and said it is good to be back on stage.
“This is my first time back in the theater,” Angel
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River City Theatre Company's 'Je- kyll & Hyde' continues through this weekend.
said. “I was gone for seven years. I enlisted in the Marine Cops in 2013. So this is my first show being back, so I am very excited to be a part of this.
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