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THE VICKSBURG POSTS U N D A Y, M A R C H 27, 2011

By Terri Cowart [email protected]

“If you keep yourself busy, you can

make it.”That’s what Pearl Ballard says and, at

80 years old, that’s what she is doing.So when it was time to prune roses,

she didn’t let a little drizzle or a nip in the air keep her inside. What were a few drops of rain to a woman who had sur-vived Hurricane Katrina?

“Water went over the roof of my house,” said the New Orleans trans-plant who moved to Vicksburg after the 2005 storm.

After growing up in Anguilla and graduating high school, Ballard headed for Memphis.

“I wanted to better myself,” she said. “I went to a sewing school and remem-ber making $11.82 a week. My life was a struggle.”

Enjoying life a bit more now and tend-ing to her roses, she said, “I usually cut them back about 10 inches from the ground.”

Not always having money to spare,

Ballard became a thrifty gardener. The roses that grow along her Lane Street home’s fence line are ones she rooted from fl orist roses she received from her son on special occasions.

She recalled a time when she would gather old seeds off of spent fl owers and use them to add to her existing garden.

“Flower seeds were 10 cents a pack,” she said.

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Pearl Ballard trims her rose bushes.

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When it comes to growing vegetables, keep it simpleBy Terri Cowart [email protected]

For backyard vegetable farmers look-ing for the best tips, Hugh Hasty keeps it simple: “Sunshine, water and fertilizer.”

Off Porters Chapel Road, on a plot of land that measures 210 feet by 105 feet, Hasty is getting ready to plant his summer garden.

“First thing to do is dress up the garden, plowing it up,” he said.

Once the garden is plowed, he said he’ll use Preen, a herbicide to help control weeds.

This year, Hasty says he’s planning for watermelon, cantaloupe, cucumber, squash, snap beans, butter beans and around 75 tomato plants.

“I will stagger the planting of the toma-toes so I can have them for a longer period of time,” he said.

Hasty’s rule of thumb for planting from seeds is to wait a week or two before Good Friday.

“Plants grow in the night, “ he said, “and temperatures need to be in the upper 50s.”

As a youngster growing up in a family that planted backyard gardens, Hasty said he always hated working in his father’s garden, but enjoys it now.

Jane High, 11, one of his granddaughters, joins him when he plants. “She likes help-ing in the garden.”

She’s even considering setting up a pro-duce stand near the garden.

Hasty estimates his garden costs him $700 to $800 from the start to finish. But the return on his investment is vegetables he freezes and cans and eats throughout the year. Along with his garden on Porters Chapel, Hasty also plants a smaller garden in his own backyard.

Hugh Hasty also says... Hugh Hasty, an amateur gardener who earns his living as a professional painter, also has some tips to spruce up your home.“Painting is like gardening,” he said. “It’s all in the prep.”

for a paint job that will last, hasty said:• Pressure wash all the mold, mildew, calking and old paint from the exterior.• Brush on either an oil or latex primer.• Buff, sand and caulk all cracks.• Apply a high-quality exterior satin or flat latex paint.• Also, Hasty says, when painting around landscaping, the chemicals usually don’t harm plants. But, if you’re concerned, just cover them up.

Hugh Hasty says...for perfect tomatoes:• Prep the soil and use weed killers sparingly.• Select blight-resistant plants. The best varieties, he says, are

Marion, Big Boy and Better Boy.• Dig a hole.• Sprinkle in fertilizer.• Water the hole.

• Place the plant in the hole.• Till regularly in between plants.• As tomatoes grow, pour Miracle-Gro around each plant.• When plants begin to get tall, cage them. They will continue to

grow out of the top of cage.• Use Sevin dust for bugs.• As blooms develop, spray them with an aphid killer. The chem-

icals won’t hurt the produce.

hugh hasty and grandchild Jane high, 11, stand near the plot of land on Por ters Chapel that they garden.

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Keeping water clean, clear can be a juggling actBy Terri Cowart [email protected]

The pool was murky.After several attempts, pool care

professionals Lamar and Jennifer Heffner were about to give up.

Then they found the culprit — a dead rabbit.

It had been hiding somewhere in the dark water.

Surely things would clear up now.But they didn’t. It was looking like the couple would

have to drain the pool, which is pricey and takes a long time.

Before the draining commenced, the homeowner showed the Heffners a picture she had taken of a large rat-tlesnake behind the house.

A closer examination revealed that the rattlesnake was, in fact, a boa constrictor.

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Two more rabbits were found in the pool and, once removed, the water cleared.

Most folks won’t need to clean out their pools because of bunnies and boas. But, with the summer months ahead, it’s time to start thinking about getting things in shape.

The Heffners have been in the pool business for more than 30 years. Though they say you don’t have to be a chemistry major to maintain a pool, you will need to routinely check the PH balance, alkalinity, chlorine levels and the hardness of the water to make sure the pool runs efficiently and effectively.

“Seventy percent of the life of your pool is thrown away if you don’t maintain it,” Lamar said.

Whether you chose to cover, drain or just watch the leaves float and clog, getting your pool back in shape will mean vacuuming, removing debris with a skimmer and adding chemicals.

“Everything on a swimming pool is a balancing act,” Lamar said, “and keeping the balance of the chlorine is important. Too much can make your skin itch; too low, and algae

will grow.” The majority of pools the Heffners

manage are chlorine, but not the kind you find on the shelves at the grocery.

“If you were to pour chlorine in a glass of water,” Jennifer explained, “within a 24-hour period of time, the chlorine will evaporate into the air and become a gas.”

In order for chlorine to remain an

active agent in a pool, a chlorine sta-bilizer is needed. Stabilizers come in either granular form or what the Hef-fners call “pucks.”

However, if the stabilizer in the water exceeds required levels, more chlorine is needed — that’s the bal-ancing act.

If you own or swim in a saltwater pool, you might not think chlorine is needed — wrong.

To maintain a salt-water pool, a salt chlorinator is a must.

But, remember, saltwater runoff can damage or kill grass and plants around the pool.

“There is no such thing as a mainte-nance-free pool,” said Lamar.

So, before you relax on your float with lemonade in tow, make sure you understand the best way to care for your pool because, after all,“They’re supposed to be fun,” Lamar said.

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Spring is the season for roses ‘n’ thingsBy Terri Cowart [email protected]

Sarah Strahan and her husband, Bill, are eagerly eyeing the amaryllis blooms that are starting to pop up in their Culkin Road yard.

They are pass-alongs, coming from her mother’s Valley Park home, where she lived for more than 60 years.

Sarah Strahan dug up 22 of the bulbs after her mother died. She also brought lilies from the home.

“If you bought amaryllis, each bulb would sell for $20,” Sarah said.

The Strahans have been married for five years, but have known each other for 27.

Growing up in Valley Park, Sarah said, “I’ve just always liked being out-side.” Bill, on the other hand, is a city boy from Texas, “but he’s learning,” she said.

Sarah and Bill say they spend an hour or two a day in the yard. They also have a vegetable garden in what was originally a swimming pool.

“The Culkin Fire department helped with the draining,” of the pool, Sarah said.

The two have added more rose bushes to their landscape, planting 10 Easy Does It bushes in the front yard.

The yard already had one, and it’s “absolutely gorgeous,” Sarah said. “Last year, people would drive by and stop to look at it.”

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Ballard figures her love of gardening comes from her mother.

“She liked to garden,” she said.The Lane Street home in which Ballard

is living had been a duplex rental prop-erty she and her late husband owned.

He died before Hurricane Katrina and, after the storm damaged the couple’s New Orleans home, “I just didn’t have the energy without him to rebuild.”

So she decided to head to Vicksburg.On Lane Street, in her backyard veg-

etable garden, Ballard grows okra, col-lard and mustard greens, and “a couple of years ago, I planted purple hull peas — but the bugs got them.”

She uses a fungicidal spray every two weeks. Once the plants are healthy look-ing, she cuts back to once a month. She feeds her flowers Peters 10-50-10, but “don’t feed after September.” For her roses, she uses Ortho Rose Pride and Miracle-Gro.

The garden isn’t limited to the outdoors.

“You can root anything,” said Ballard, whose home is filled with containers of green plants galore — even a pineapple.

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Pearl Ballard looks at her rose bushes.


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She counted more than 80 orange blooms on one bush.

A little farther down the road, in Fairways subdivision, Brad Fletcher is growing one thing.

“My wife has reign over the entire yard — except for my rose garden,” he said.

Eight years ago, Fletcher started his rose garden with a box garden 6 inches off the ground. He dug rows, as one would for a vegetable garden, and planted the rose bushes in the hill of the row

“This helps the root ball to drain,” he said.

This time of year, Fletcher applies a humus and manure mixture to his roses.

When it is time to fertilize, “which is

before and after the roses bloom,” he uses fish emulsion or alfalfa and adds one of the two to a 5-gallon bucket of water and lets it sit for three days. Then, he waters the roses with it.

“Always water around the roots,” he said.

Watering just the roots also helps prevent black spot disease.

“Once black spot is formed, you can’t get rid of it,” Fletcher said. “You can only try to prevent it. Mites and black

spot are roses’ worst enemies.”He suggests watering roses every

three or four days, rather than every day.

And, “When you’re ready to bring in a cut rose, make sure the cut is a quarter inch above the next growth,” Fletcher said. “Use sharp pruners. If you crush the stem, it will make it more susceptible to disease.”

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Make sure equipment in tip-top shape before cranking upBy Terri Cowart [email protected]

The sounds of mowers, blowers and weed trimmers are in the air. It’s time to pull out the lawn equipment and put on the work gloves.

To get ready for the summer season, Fred Katzenmeyer, co-owner of Katz Brothers Inc., chuckles and points to his showroom floor, saying, “You need to buy a new mower.”

After some oohing and aahing over a lime green push mower, Katzen-meyer cut to the chase and gave the mow down on getting yard equipment summer ready.

Start each season with fresh oil and gas, clean air filters and new blades, if needed, he said.

“To change the oil in newer lawn mower models, it’s best to take them to the shop,” he said. “These models require servicing — just like you would a car.”

Now that gas contains ethanol, Katzenmeyer said, it’s “only good for

four to six weeks.”This isn’t a problem with automo-

biles because gas usually doesn’t stay in the tank that long.

In lawn mowers, “it will deteriorate all the rubber in the carburetor if it sits too long,” Katzenmeyer said.

The gas evaporates, leaving the etha-nol and its residue, which will damage the carburetor. On some mowers, there is a shut-off valve that allows the drainage of excess gas.

“The valves can be installed in some lawn mowers,” Katzenmeyer said, “if there is enough room to add one.”

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Rushing doesn’t own a fancy work-shop, he just sits in his side yard at

Fred Katzenmeyer of Katz Brothers shows off a piece of lawn equipment at his shop on Walnut Street.

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When the weather is chilly, he just puts on more clothes and keeps on tinkering.

Rushing works at the junkyard on U.S. 80 a few days a week, and is able to find and salvage parts he some-times uses on equipment friends drop off for him to fix.

“I’ve torn up more than I’ve fixed,” he laughed.

Rushing is 61 years old and is work-ing on his GED from Hinds. He is also taking a computer class.

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A trend toward creating “outdoor rooms” has dramatically increased light-ing options for homeowners who want to extend their time outside.

Most indoor lighting fixtures — chande-liers, pendant lights, table lamps — now have a counterpart designed for patios or decks.

“We have seen outdoor lights absolutely replicating indoor designs,” said Anne Robert of theoutdoorstylist.com. “Outdoor lighting is a mood setter.”

The abundance of products lets you make outdoor spaces more functional, said Rich Young of Outdoor Living Brands in Richmond, Va.

“It allows families to extend the square footage of their home,” he said.

When choosing fixtures for outdoor entertaining areas, consider how much light is necessary, said Alene Workman, a spokeswoman for the American Society of Interior Designers. A table needs to have sufficient light so diners can eat, whereas a conversation area may need only soft mood lighting.

Be creative with table lighting, recom-mends Krissa Rossbund, a senior style editor at Traditional Home Magazine.

“Gone are the days when people hang a chandelier over a table and call it lit,” she said.

She suggests hanging two small chande-liers instead of one large one, or buying a chandelier at a flea market and painting it a bright color.

Outdoor chandeliers come in a variety of styles, from mission to modern. Man-ufacturers also offer many candle chan-deliers for outdoor areas that don’t have

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Colored lights, illuminated furniture and subtle fixtures designed to blend with nature will be popular this year, accord-ing to design professionals.

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When it comes time for spring cleaning, tackle big jobs � rstBy The Associated Press

Spring is the time of year when homes get a thorough cleaning. Using the right tools, techniques and products for differ-ent surfaces and types of dirt, from win-dows to counters to fl oors, is key to doing the job easily and effectively, said Debra Johnson, training manager for the Merry Maids housecleaning company in Mem-phis, Tenn.

“It makes the job easier if you have the right products,” she said.

Begin with the rooms or areas that seem the dirtiest, suggested Carolyn Forte, director of the Home Appliances and Cleaning Lab at the Good Housekeeping Research Institute.

“Start with the thing that bothers you most,” she said. “Do the bigger jobs fi rst.”

Johnson and Forte offer the following advice for effective spring cleaning.• Windows — Use an ammonia-based

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cleaner will dry too quickly and leave streaks.

• Window blinds — Close plastic blinds and wipe with a damp cloth, Johnson said. Reverse the slats and clean the other side of the blinds with a clean, damp cloth. Use a tool designed for blind cleaning to clean between the slats. For cloth blinds, use a vacuum attachment to remove dust and dirt.

• Wood fl oors — Wash fl oors with a cleaner designed for wood surfaces, Forte said. Choose the cleaner that’s appropriate for the fi nish on the fl oor, either wax or polyurethane. She favors using a microfi ber cloth on a mop with

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What’s in a name? Billy bookcase, meet Chloe chairBy The Associated Press

Do you have a Chloe in your house? How about a Harry, or a Scarlet?

I’m not talking about your children or pets, but your furniture. Ever wondered how and why retailers come up with names for the things you buy for your home?

The concept’s not new, says Antonio Larosa, the furniture chairman at Savan-nah College of Art & Design.

“Throughout history, furniture pieces were given the name of a monarch, such as Queen Anne or Louis XIV, to gain favor and influence,” he says.

In modern times, naming furniture is just good marketing. “It’s appealing and friendly to have a ‘Jasmine Chair’ in a catalog rather than the ‘XY 9811.Y Chair,”’ Larosa says. Aside from the vis-ceral connection that consumers might make with a name, it’s also a lot easier for everyone from manufacturer to buyer to reference.

In Europe, Larosa says, designers instinc-tively treat their finished product like a family member. “They feel they’ve put so much passion into it that it isn’t just

a piece of wood or metal, but an integral part of the home.” That’s why you saw feminine names grow in popularity during the 1960s and 1970s, especially in Italy: Sottsass’ Valentina typewriter. Mendini’s Anna G corkscrew for Alessi.

There were variations: Poltronova’s “Joe” leather chair, designed in 1970 and now re-edited by the U.S. company Heller, paid homage to Joe DiMaggio.

Mary Rose Gearson, Crate & Barrel’s director of product and sourcing devel-opment, says, “We do try to convey an emotional connotation to the product — quirky, clever or provenance — which we hope will resonate with the customer. Cal-dera, meaning volcano, becomes a lava-colored Murano glass bowl. And I’m in love with Lola, our Mexican etched goblet and tumbler — the name just says it all!”

Becky Weber, upholstery buyer at Crate & Barrel, provided some additional insight: “We named our new wing chair Astaire because it’s covered in soft shim-mery leather that reminded me of an ele-gant ball gown — an old-school, iconic dancing reference.

“The Ian white leather sofa pays tribute

to Ian Schrager, who pioneered the con-cept of hotel lobby as ‘club.”’

And Scarlet, a voluptuous chaise, evokes Tara’s heroine, Gearson says.

With 10,000 products to name, IKEA has the process down to a science. Names are gleaned from dictionaries, atlases and even birth announcements, and a com-puter wrangles the database of new, used and retired ones. Since the same names are used in IKEA stores all over the world, it’s a tricky task. Names can’t be too long or short, and mustn’t be offensive in any language.

All have Scandinavian origins. Beds have Norwegian place names; seating and dining tables have Swedish ones. Your Klippan sofa is named after a pretty town in the southern countryside. Girls’ and boys’ names are used for fabrics, some office furniture and shelving — that’s why your bookcase is a Billy.

Descriptive words for spices, fruits, fishes or a product’s function go on acces-sories and decor, while a lot of lighting fea-tures nautical terminology.

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Garages may have started out as a place to store cars, but gradually they’ve become a place to store almost everything else, from sports equipment to dog food to holiday decorations.

As the spring cleaning urge hits, it’s a good time to take stock of your garage. Is it a functional space or just a repository for junk?

Before you rush out and buy new shelv-ing and cabinets, professional organizer Cindy Tyner recommends putting some thought into how you want to use your garage. She says the No. 1 mistake people make is pulling everything out of the garage first and then getting overwhelmed when they try to cram it all back in.

“People go out and buy things, like stor-age systems and bins, and say, ‘This is what I need to get me organized,’ but the things don’t fit the purposes they need,” said Tyner, who owns an Ann Arbor, Mich.-based organizing business called Functional Spaces.

Once you’ve decided how to use your garage, here are some tips to help you finish the job:

• Pick a sunny day and clear out all your

belongings. Decide what will stay, what can be donated.

“If you haven’t used it in a year, you need to ask yourself, does it make sense to keep it? If it’s important to keep it, how can you use it? If it’s a family heirloom, should it be sitting in the garage where you can have a variety of problems and moisture?” said Sean Hunt, president of Garage Special-ists Inc., a San Bernardino, Calif.-based company that cleans and organizes a few

hundred garages a year.• Once the garage is cleared, sweep and

wash the floors and walls. A fresh coat of paint can brighten the walls, and paints made especially for garage floors protect them from oil and gas stains.

• Consider what kind of storage you need. Costs vary significantly, from $40 plastic shelving to $350 steel shelving. You can use old kitchen cabinets or buy new ones. Gladiator GarageWorks, a division of Whirlpool, makes heavy-duty plastic tracks that run along the wall and can be

fitted with cabinets, hooks or baskets. A two-pack of 48-inch-long tracks is $29.99; a six-pack of bins is $14.99.

Kris Nielson, the CEO of Monkey Bar Storage, a Rexburg, Idaho-based company that makes steel shelving systems, said people can spend up to $10,000 on custom garages with fancy flooring, refrigerators and other perks. His company, which has 68 outlets in the United States and Canada, charges an average of $1,500 per garage to install systems. “This is not your dining room. It’s your garage,” he said.

A garage organization system by Mon-key Bar Storage

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