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Description: The purpose of “A Place to Grow” – Child Guidance Center, Inc. is to provide a warm & loving Christian learning environment that enriches the lives of the children in our care. Our program provides a number of activities that will help better a child’s understanding and self awareness in relation to the world around hm. Our goal is to assist the child in becoming a well-adjusted individual with a positive self image.

For your information “A Place to Grow”- Child Guidance Center is a state licensed Christian child care center for children, ages birth-12 years old. Our center in no way, reserves the right to discriminate any applicant because of race, nationality, or creed. “A Place to Grow” was established in June 1985 by Beverly Childs in her home.

Additional Information: Initial License Date: 7/9/1992.

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• Type of Care:
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How pearls are grown – stages of pearl cultivation in Moscow

The first stage of pearl cultivation is the collection of caviar from pearl oysters. The young mollusks that have emerged from it are kept in metal cages with small cells to protect them from attack by octopuses, starfish and other enemies living in the sea. The cages must be periodically cleaned and checked to see if their inhabitants are healthy, and after two years, slightly grown mollusks are transplanted from small cages to large ones. A year later, when the oysters reach maturity, an operation is performed to place a mother-of-pearl seed inside.

The operation is as follows: a small strip of tissue is separated from one oyster. A mother-of-pearl ball is wrapped in this cloth and placed in the body of another oyster. The mollusk is returned to the sea, and the tissue that has been planted behaves exactly like the animal’s own cells, releasing mother-of-pearl that envelops the foreign grain.

The balls that are placed in the oyster are carefully sized – they should not be larger than a certain size that the oyster can handle. If the seed exceeds a certain maximum size, the oyster may die.

Pearl oyster cages are attached to floating buoys connected to each other. Buoys simultaneously hold up to 80 thousand cells. With the help of motor boats, they are periodically moved to other places to provide food for the oysters. Some types of crustaceans and seaweeds pose a threat to the health of oysters, so they are periodically removed from the surface of each shell, then treated with a special compound that prevents the spread of parasites.

Despite all these concerns, some of the oysters die in the first month, some reject the ball placed in them. The mollusks remaining in the work, and there are less than a third of them, form a couple of millimeters of mother-of-pearl in a few months. It will take at least three years to grow large Akoya pearls.

In modern pearl farms, they are x-rayed to determine if a pearl develops inside and, if so, what is its diameter.

The process of growing pearls takes several years. During this time, oyster processing procedures are regularly carried out, after which it is finally possible to extract beautiful and valuable pearls.

Percentage of pearl formation, even when oysters are grown and well cared for, is very small. It is even more difficult to sort pearls that match in size, color, degree of luster, smoothness.

In nature, there are no two absolutely identical pearls, so sorting pearls is a very complex process that takes a lot of time. Pearls are divided into groups according to size, shape, shade, brightness of mother-of-pearl, so each pebble is shifted many times. After sorting, a hole is carefully drilled in the pearl. It is very important that it is exactly in the center of the pearl, as even minimal asymmetry can spoil the look of a necklace or other jewelry.

After that, identical pearls are selected to form the jewelry. This is even more painstaking work than sorting: jewelers have to look at the most identical pairs of stones from a group already selected by size, color, shape, brightness, and therefore very similar. Ideally, only a specialist with extensive experience can choose pearls for making jewelry. For example, in order to pick up 47 absolutely identical pearls for a necklace 42 centimeters long, you have to look through over 10 thousand stones.

But what about irregularly shaped pearls that are not suitable for jewelry purposes? Usually they are used in the production of medicines, cosmetics and for other things – for example, for the production of artificial pearls.

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• Cowberry

• Lingonberry cultivation and care

• Cowberry variety Red Pearl: cultivation features

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The popular Dutch lingonberry variety Red Pearl (Red Pearl) is the most tolerant of non-ideal soil conditions. This fast growing attractive plant has large dark red berries and green leaves. Read on to learn how to grow this super hardy variety in your garden.

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• Description of the variety
  • History of selection
  • appearance, berry characteristics, ripening time, yield
  • Virtues and deficiencies in the variety
• Agrotechnics
• Choosing and planting
• UNDERT
• Pruning
• Wintering

Variety description

Red Pearl is a fast growing, large, dense, upright plant over 30 cm high. The bush is not very spreading, but tall. It can easily grow both in the garden in the open field and indoors. covered with evergreen foliage, lingonberries bear fruit abundantly with bright red berries with a mild flavor.

Lingonberries are excellent for growing in cold climates. Widely distributed in the forests of Scandinavia, Europe, Alaska, Russia.

It is popular as a houseplant in Scandinavia and Northern Europe and is used in various dishes. Common lingonberry pies are delicious, but you can also make jam, jelly, syrup, or wine from the berries. Berries also have medicinal value – they are able to lower cholesterol levels.

Variety features:

Breeding history

This is one of the few plants known in the Nordic countries under many names:

There are so many of them because the plant belongs to the same species as blueberries with cranberries and is a berry that can be harvested until frost. This low growing shrub is spread by underground rhizomes.

In autumn it is covered with small red fruits with a sour and tart taste, weighing from 0.17 to 0.45 g. Berries are rich in anthocyanins and flavonoids. Garden varieties of lingonberries come from wild forest plants. Today there are 16 varieties of horticultural varieties on the European market, of which 14 are self-pollinated and 2 require pollinators.

The Red Pearl was introduced to the market in 1983. by the Dutch manufacturer Elden Stang. This variety has gained wide popularity due to the fact that it is suitable as a pollinator for other varieties. The plant is characterized by high growth energy, height 33–38 cm, dark green foliage and dark red berries weighing from 0.17 g.

Appearance, characteristics of berries, ripening time, yield

In addition to being productive, the shrubs have a year-round ornamental appeal: pink and white flowers in summer, deep red berries in autumn and green foliage in winter look great in any room. It is an ideal plant for both window pots and hanging baskets.

Decorating the loggia, several plants can be placed at a distance of 30 cm from each other. They make excellent companions for similarly sized dwarf blueberry bushes.

Description of appearance and characteristics of berries:

The berry is rich in compounds that act as antioxidants, including manganese, vitamin C, vitamin E, and some anthocyanins. There are only 84 calories in 100 g of fruit.

Also:

• proteins: 1. 1 g;
• fat: 0.5 g;
• carbohydrates: 21 g;
• fiber: 3.6 g.

Cowberries contain a lot of potassium – 3% of the daily value and vitamin C – 24% of the daily value. It is also rich in organic acids such as benzoic acid, which play an important role as natural preservatives in other foods.

In warm climates, berries can produce two crops: one in mid-summer and one in mid-autumn. The first harvest will be with very small berries. Lingonberries are usually picked by hand, but you can also use a berry picker. The average annual yield from one bush will be 0.4 kg of berries.

See also how lingonberries differ from cranberries and bearberries.

Advantages and disadvantages of variety

• Variety advantage:
• Red pearl is higher than other varieties: it can reach 38 cm in height;
• its rhizomes can spread up to a meter around, not immediately, but after several years of development;
• easily forms young rosettes on the rhizome;
• the most unpretentious of all varieties;
• tolerates drought well;
• does not require pruning, but tolerates it if you form a landscape composition;
• self-fertile and can be a pollinator for other varieties;
• can be actively propagated by new rosettes, suitable for growing in the garden and in pots;
• has a good yield and large fruits;
• fruits a week earlier than other varieties;
• lingonberries do not get sick at all and are not attacked by insects.

Considering the small number of garden varieties of lingonberries, they do not have any shortcomings. Varieties are compared not with each other, but with wild-growing counterparts. And in this they, of course, look more profitable.

Agrotechnics

Cowberry cultivation and care measures include:

• seat selection;
• landing;
• watering;
• fertilization;
• harvest;
• periodic cleaning of the beds from dead organic matter;
• mulching.

Cowberry planting is planned for spring or autumn. When planting seedlings deepen the bush just below the soil line. In a row, individual plants are planted at a distance of 20–40 cm from each other. Cultivated European lingonberries bloom in spring and again in mid-summer. The first harvest will be ready in July, and the second in October.

Important! Humus and compost should not be used to fertilize lingonberries.

After landing, you need to be patient. Bushes begin to bear fruit in 2-3 years. Harvest with a special scraper – a fork-shaped tool designed to remove berries. The collected fruits are stored in the refrigerator for 3 weeks. During this time, they must either be eaten or processed into juice, jam or other preparations.

Seat selection and landing

The Red Pearl needs an area with equal parts of sunlight and partial shade. But, according to gardeners, the more berries are in the sun, the more sweetness they have. The site must be level so that the bushes are in equal conditions. Water can accumulate in the lowlands. In winter, this is dangerous due to freezing of the soil.
The required soil acidity is 5.0 pH. Therefore, the best composition of the soil mixture is 3 parts of peat and 1 part of sand.

In nature, lingonberries grow in abundance on peat bogs. Remove all weeds from the site, dig a trench 30 cm deep. The width depends on the number of plants to be planted. The distance between individual bushes should be 20–40 cm.

Prepared soil mixture is brought into the trench, compacted and watered with acidified water. For this, 1 tbsp. l. citric acid is dissolved in 3 liters of water. Sulfur is added to the pit in the amount of 50 g per 1 m². The seedling is planted at the same height at which it was in a pot or a little deeper and watered abundantly.

The soil around is mulched. To do this, use peat or sawdust. Layer thickness – up to 7 cm. Mulch not only retains the moisture the plant needs after watering, but also prevents the growth of weeds. The roots of the plant are very small and cannot compete with weeds. Therefore, the bed should be free from weeds.

Some gardeners try to reproduce natural conditions for lingonberries. To do this, a film is laid on the bottom in a dug trench up to 50 cm deep. Pine needles are covered from above, and a soil mixture of peat and sand is placed on them, in which plants are planted. Water thoroughly and cover the surface with a layer of pine needle mulch.

Care

The desired type of irrigation is drip, but overhead can also be used. Droppers are installed on the beds and watered as the soil dries. The depth of soil impregnation is up to 3 cm. Irrigation frequency is weekly. Do not let the soil dry out: this increases the concentration of salts in the soil mixture, which is detrimental to the proportion of plants.

If the plant grows up to 7 cm per year, it does not need fertilizer. In other cases, you need top dressing with a low proportion of nitrogen. For example, 5-10-10, where the numbers show the percentage in a solution of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, respectively.

Do not apply large amounts of fertilizer. Their excess will reduce the yield and can lead to the death of plants. The main symptom of death is wilting, similar to root rot: brown leaves. But lingonberries do not get sick with rot, so such symptoms are considered as an overabundance of fertilizers.

As for other plants, the composition of the fertilizer includes: nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium. Use urea as a source of nitrogen. Norm: 20–40 kg per 0.5 ha per year. The lower number indicates the norm for plants under 5 years old.

Important! Cowberries are very sensitive to chlorine, so irrigation water must be defended.

Disease and pest control

Root rot can occur in clayey soils due to overwatering. To avoid this, prepare a proper planting trench with potting mix. Excessive dryness can also cause the death of lingonberries. Diseases and pests do not usually annoy plants, but their occurrence is possible.

If you notice insects, they could be:

1. Aphids . They can appear on any type of plant. Their clusters appear on the stems and under the leaves. For the fight, spraying the beds with soapy water is used, repeated after 5-7 days.
2. Whiteflies . Small moths found mainly on the underside of leaves. Against them, it is good to use traps with pheromones.

The plant may be affected by fungal diseases. Their signs are spots: brown, gray, orange. Gradually, the spots increase, the leaves wither and die. When fungal diseases appear, use copper-based preparations, for example, Bordeaux liquid 1%.

Spraying is carried out 2-3 times during spring and summer: before flowering, after the bushes have faded and 2 weeks after the second treatment. It is wise to carry out another spraying in the fall, before covering the plants with mulch for the winter.

Cutting

Do not prune in the first 4 or 5 years after planting. For those older shrubs, pruning is optional, but growers sometimes mow alternating rosettes to a height of 5 cm every 3 years to encourage plant development.

Unfortunately, there is no verified information about how pruning affects yield, so you can do as you see fit. Periodically, dead leaves, branches and other organic debris that can get there should be removed from the garden. The rest of the plant does not require special care.

Wintering

Lingonberry is a very hardy plant, it tolerates frost well during flowering and fruit formation. But at the same time, it can lose up to 50% of the crop. The optimum temperature for it is -2°C. In the absence of snow cover and frost from -10 ° C, the plant should be covered with a layer of mulch.

Harvest and storage

Pick berries as they ripen. They should be red in color and firm to the touch. Ripening occurs within a few weeks, so they can be harvested several times or when they are all ripe. Cowberries are firmly attached to the branches.

Gather it with a special tool, similar to a rake, which can be bought at a gardening store. It is impossible to press the tool strongly during the collection, so as not to damage the bushes

Berries must be cleared of branches and leaves with which they were collected.