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HOME 1THE WEIRS TIMES & THE COCHECO TIMES, FALL HOME IMPROVEMENT - Thursday, September 17, 2015

by Melinda MyersDon’t pack away that

shovel and trowel. Fall is a great time to plant a few new additions in the landscape. Here are just a few ideas for adding immediate and long term beauty to your garden.

Add cool season annu-als like pansies, snap-dragons, ornamental kale and stocks to brighten the fall garden. Those in milder regions will en-joy them throughout the winter. Consider add-ing cold hardy pansies. They provide color in the fall garden, survive most winters, and are back blooming in the spring just as the snow melts.

Fal l is a lso a good time to plant perenni-als, trees and shrubs. The soil is warm and the air cooler, so the plants are less stressed and establish more quickly. Select plants suited to the growing conditions and be sure to give them plenty of room to reach their mature size.

Plant trees so the root flare, the place where the

Plant daffodils and other spring flowering bulbs in the fall for extra color next spring.

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roots curve away from the trunk, is even with the soil surface. Dig a hole, the same depth as the rootball, and two to five times wider. Roughen the sides of the hole and backfill with the existing soil. Water thoroughly and spread a two to three inch layer of mulch over the soil surface, keeping the mulch away from the tree trunk.

Follow a similar plant-ing procedure for shrubs. Plant these so the crown, the place where the stems meet the roots, is even with the soil surface. And be sure to keep the mulch away from the stems.

Plant daffodils, tulips, hyacinths and other bulbs in fall for extra col-or next spring. Set the bulbs at a depth of two to three times their height deep. Then cover them with soil and sprinkle on a low nitrogen slow re-lease fertilizer, like Milor-ganite (milorganite.com). This organic nitrogen fer-tilizer promotes rooting without stimulating fall

growth subject to winter kill.

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hover between 40 and 50 degrees. Be patient – waiting until the soil cools reduces the risk of early sprouting that often occurs during a warm fall.

Those gardening in the far south and along the gulf coast can purchase pre-cooled bulbs to com-pensate for the warm winters. Or the chilling can be done at home by storing the bulbs in a 35 to 45 degree location for at least 14 weeks before planting.

Those tired of battling the animals may want to plant resistant bulbs such as daffodils, hya-cinths, Fritillaria, alli-ums, Camassia, glory-of-the snow, snow drops, squills, and grape hya-cinths. You may find it is easier to avoid the problem than battle the animals with repellents and scare tactics.

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the garden flavor this fall. Simply count the days from planting to the average first fall frost to determine how many growing days are left in your area. Select veg-etables that will mature and can be harvested in that amount of time. Leaf lettuce, spinach, mustard greens, rad-ishes and carrots are fast growing, cool weather tolerant vegetables that make great additions to the fall garden and your dinner plate.

Get these vegetables off to a good start with a side dressing of low nitrogen fertilizer. Incorporate it into the soil prior to planting or sprinkle a narrow band along the row of plants. This or-ganic nitrogen will pro-vide needed nutrients without damaging the tender seedlings.

Extend the harvest sea-son with the help of float-ing row covers. These fabrics allow air, light and water through while trapping the heat around

meyers from 1 the plants. No construc-tion is needed; just loose-ly cover the plants with the fabric, secure the edges with pipes, boards or landscape staples and let the plants provide the support.

So be sure to get a jump on next spring’s garden season with a bit of fall planting now.

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These two walls can be removed. It may be an easy job or it may be one that requires great skill and care, depending on what’s inside them.

DEAR TIM: I would like to remove the two corner walls in my kitchen that are common with my liv-ing and dining room. This will allow me to install more cabinets and a coun-tertop with a bar to eat at. The entire house will seem more open. Can the walls be removed? What’s involved? Who does this work? Do you think the average homeowner can successfully tackle a job like this? --Angel G., Do-ver, Idaho

DEAR ANGEL: I used to do remodeling work of the sort you envision. In the process I made more than one homeowner’s wildest kitchen remodel-ing dreams come true. You’ll not believe how tak-ing down one or two walls can completely transform a space. Your smallish kitchen will seem triple the size once this job is complete.

The simple answer to your question is yes, the walls can be removed. The complex answer is the one about what’s involved in doing this. You need to determine what’s inside each of the two walls and whether one or both are

bearing walls.A bearing wall is a sup-

port wall that transfers load from above down through the structure to another wall, a beam, and/or a foundation. Some bearing walls seem innocuous and are well disguised. I had a bear-ing wall in the last home I built for my family that had a doorway in it and a large, wide opening. This wall supported huge sec-ond floor, attic and roof loads from above. Looking at that wall, you’d think it was just an ordinary wall.

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If you have an unfin-ished basement you can sometimes get a good idea of what’s in the wall by going down and looking at the ceiling directly un-der the two walls. Things that pass up into the walls from below should be readily visible to you. Look for plumbing pipes, HVAC ducts and other things that disappear from the basement up into the walls above.

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Freshening your space can feel good any time of year, but certain projects are perfectly aligned to give you a much-needed mood boost when it turns cold or wet weather sets in. Here are four projects that not only can brighten your outlook, they can also be good for your wallet:

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If you want to determine if the walls are load-bear-ing, you can often do this by poking your head up into the attic if you have a single-story house. If you have traditional roof trusses that span your entire home, there’s a good chance the walls are not load bearing. It’s pos-sible for some trusses to have internal load-bearing points on them, so if you have any doubt at all, take photos of the trusses and visit a truss-fabricating plant to talk with the staff engineer.

If you determine the walls are load bearing, the job grows in complex-ity by a factor of three or more. You’ll have to get a residential structural en-gineer involved, and this professional will produce a drawing showing what beams and columns need to be installed that will replace the walls.

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up in the ceiling so you don’t have it hanging be-low your finished ceiling. The advantage of having the beam tucked up in the ceiling is you get one nice flat ceiling through the entire kitchen, din-ing room and living room space.

If you do have to install beams that take the place of the bearing walls, you now have to install col-umns that support the beams. These can be made from wood or steel. The columns need to transfer the load to the foundation or the soil below. This is not as easy as it seems as it requires you to create a continuous load path from the bottom of the beam all the way to the ground.

I don’t feel the aver-age homeowner can do this job. Perhaps the only thing the average hom-eowner can accomplish is the demolition of the plas-ter or drywall. But even then, if done wrong, you can harm things inside the wall.

This job is best done by a full-service remodeling company. The best in the business have seasoned employees who know how to do the demolition and deal with all the things that need to be relocated.

They’ll work with mechan-ical and electrical subcon-tractors and keep the job moving each day.

If you proceed with this job, be prepared for some pain. It’s dirty, dusty work and there are usually dis-ruptions with respect to your use of the heating, air conditioning or plumb-ing systems. Have your remodeling contractor produce a detailed sched-ule that outlines how long each phase of the job will take.

Only pay for work and materials that are done correctly and to your sat-isfaction. There’s no need to make any advance pay-ments because there’s usually no custom mate-rials that have to be pur-chased to remove walls. Remember, your contrac-tor doesn’t pay his em-ployees or regular mate-rial suppliers in advance, so why should you have to pay him before he does the work?

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