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12 | April 18, 2019 | Malibu surfside news school malibusurfsidenews.com Love Thy Mother Nature Malibu residents gather at Pepperdine University April 10 to participate in the school’s annual Earth Day event, the Sustainability Fair Pepperdine University’s Sustainability Fair taught residents about a sustainable way of living. Pepperdine student Christine Deng (left) listens to Laura Rosenthal, field manager for Energy Upgrade California, a program that promotes using as little energy as possible. Rosenthal said the little things like unplugging phone chargers and toasters can take the pressure off the grid. She suggested doing laundry before 4 p.m. as the peak energy use time is 4-9 p.m. photos by Suzy Demeter/22nd Century Media At the City of Malibu booth, Reza Bassiri (left) spins a trivia wheel and learns something from Shea Cunningham. The topics included: reduce, reuse, recycle, food waste and water conservation. REMINDER! Rattlesnake Season is Here. APRIL, MAY AND JUNE BE ALERT AND PROTECT YOUR PETS. Call us with any questions. Malibu Coast Animal Hospital 23431 Pacific Coast Highway 310-317-4560 www.malibuvets.com Doug Satre (left), director of strategic partnerships of Plant with Purpose speaks with Avery Davis Lamb about the organization’s work working with farmers to help them meet their needs and contribute environmentally by planting trees.
malibusurfsidenews.com sound off Malibu surfside news | April 18, 2019 | 13 Don’t Panic, It’s Organic The long-term solution to fighting whiteflies Andy Lopez Contributing Columnist Invisible Gardener If you were having a whitefly problem last year, you know you will have whiteflies this year. As a matter of fact, you are having the start of your whitefly problem right now! Whiteflies will attack a wide variety of plants from attacking jade plants to fruit trees to roses and many vegetables and flowers. What your plants have is a mineral deficiency problem. I tell folks that it is a soil problem, but in many cases, it is not the soil’s fault, it is really yours for planting something in batteries From Page 7 could help keep a system operating within safer tolerances for a longer period of time, giving grid operators and line workers more time to respond to outage events. Workers need time to drive out to a site for repairs or implement other solutions to keep the lights on for affected residents. “We need to consider battery storage and solar as part of a toolbox to provide customer resilience in the face of the growing threat the wrong place. When plants have a mineral deficiency problem, it is usually due to one of two things: soil not delivering the minerals or the plant is not capable of using the minerals which the soil sends to them. Let’s talk about the plants not being able to utilize the minerals. This is because the plant or tree is not getting enough light to function correctly. Most, if not all plants, need approximately 8 hours of direct sunlight. So even if the soil sends the minerals, the plants cannot process them. If they are missing certain minerals, they will get attacked by pests or diseases. Sometimes, plants are planted in the wrong time zone. This means they won’t get either enough soil heat or light or both to function properly. Soil PH also plays an essential factor in mineral availability. If you insist on having the plant(s) there, then I would start foliar from wildfire. The catastrophic events of the past two years are forcing us to rethink how the electricity grid is built and operated. Clean, customer-sited energy storage and generation may be a key enabler of change and hence greater safety for California communities in at risk areas,” said Michael Wara, Director of the Climate and Energy Policy Program, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment. To realize the energy vision established in Building A More Resilient Grid, the company is further urging feeding it with a complete micro blend. It should be a mix of micronutrients as well as microbial life. An excellent source is Dr. Earth products. They have been around for a long time and now are available at most local nurseries. Their products have almost all the micronutrients as well as a comprehensive source of microbes I would then buy something like Sea90 which has 90 trace minerals and use the two together. The best PH range is within 6.2 to 6.8. The farther away from this range, the less you will find these specific type of microbial life. It is this microbial life that takes minerals and converts them into a nutrient-rich build that is then transferred to the plants via the plant’s root system. A specific microbe lives on the root hairs which has the job of transmitting this food to the plants. They also transmit other California state policymakers to embrace three specific policies: eliminating the cap for developers on state storage incentives to allow for community-scale solutions to reduce wildfire risk, raising storage incentives for lower income Californians in wildfire prone areas, and passing the recently-introduced California Solar Bill of Rights. “Last year’s wildfires are a wake up call. We all need to come together to deliver solutions that will make our energy system safer for all. We can do this,” Hoskins said. information which can come from other plants. This is just one-way plants communicate. I talk about long-term and short-term solutions. There are many ways to control whiteflies with short-term solutions but remember they are not dealing directly with the cause. As long as you avoid the cause, you will always have its effects. While this makes money for businesses in the pest control world, it does not solve the problem. So for long-term whitefly control, you have to start paying attention to the health of the soil. It will take a long time to bring the soil back to health. Regular applications of living compost and living mulch along with various sources of trace minerals like rock dust and Sea90, will start to change the soil and help to bring back the living army of the soil. While this is happening, you can spray the plants with any number of safe sprays. Here are a few and not in order of importance and you can mix them other than where I say you shouldn’t. Garlic will kill any soft-bodied insect-like whiteflies. You can either buy (try Garlic Barrier) or make your own. To make your own just buy 1 oz crushed garlic and place into a pantyhose or sock and tie into a ball and let sit in 5 gallons clean filtered water overnight, squeezing the ball every once in a while to get the garlic juice out. The bag will filter out the garlic bits to avoid clogging up your sprayer. Cold Brew Coffee will also kill whiteflies. Try 8 oz organic cold brew coffee per 5 gallons clean water and spray. When you spray to make sure you spray at night and cover both upper and lower leaf. Any questions or help? Email me at andylopez@invisiblegardener.com Poet’s Corner A single rose Softly, silently , with no hurrah a single rose rises proudly from the debris of the fire. flamingo pink, it defies the devils of destruction Deep wisdom of the earth sends fine threads of green grass tendrils of life from the fecund, stirring earth rising from the flaming flare of ruin. Birds flitter and flutter in a canopy of scorched, leafless trees Nature is doing what nature will replenish, restore, revive and rejoice in new life. Jacqueline Craven, Malibu resident Support Your Local Hometown Newspaper AND ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS OR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES TODAY! CALL FOR CLASSIFIEDS! 708-326-9170 Deadline Thursdays at 3pm MALIBU SURFSIDE NEWS
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