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Consider these gardening tips for healthy Summer Reading Club for Adults, 18+
plants, a healthy family, and a healthy
Why let the kids have all the fun?
environment: Read, solve puzzles, and take a chance at winning a prize.
• Compost your kitchen waste (no meat). Put these nutrients Open to residents and non-residents, 18 years or older. For
back to work in your garden to help condition the soil and more information or to register, stop by the Circulation
nourish your plants. Desk or Information Desk on the First Floor of the library.
• Use companion planting to deter pests from damaging your Ends August 9th.
plants.
Basil excels at repelling troublesome insects like aphids, as- TEEN SUMMER READING
paragus beetles, flies, and tomato horn worms. Marigolds
control nematodes in the soil that prey upon tomatoes, cu- Summer Reading Club for ages 11-17*
cumbers, and melons. Chrysanthemums deter many bugs: By reading for 30 minutes or more per day,
ants, Japanese beetles, roaches, bed bugs, spider mites, sil-
verfish, and ticks will stay away if you have some of these teens can earn raffle tickets for a chance
around. Some bug repellents use pyrethrum, a natural in- to win prizes and gift certificates!
gredient in chrysanthemums. Register anytime before July 27th in person
Find more suggestions at: http://chemung.cce.cornell.edu/ in the Children’s Department.
resources/companion-planting.
• Use beneficial insects to patrol your plants and to exterminate L L LIBRARY
the ‘bad bugs’. Praying mantis, ladybugs, and green lacewings
will work for you in your garden. Learn more about gardening Summer Reading Club for ages 4 -14*
with praying mantis at a program presented by the Daytime
Gardeners of North Haven on September 24, 2019. Get ready to Laugh Out Loud during North Haven Library’s
2019 silly summer reading program. By reading just 20
• Tomatoes: Use straw or pine bark mulch to minimize back- minutes or more each day, children ages 4 – 14 can enter
splash on your tomatoes. Prune off bottom leaves so none the Summer Reading Room to unlock
touch the ground. Use stakes or cages to hold plants off the
ground. laughable riddles, hilarious jokes, and fun
facts, as they play interactive games.
• Tomato hornworms do not need to be removed or killed if Participants must register in-person in the North
they have white, predator wasp eggs on them. The eggs will Haven Library Children’s Department before August 1st.
hatch, killing the worm, and more predator wasps will be
available to deter tomato hornworms.
• Green Beans: beans fix nitrogen in the soil, which is good for RUBBER DUCKY CLUB
corn. If you have pole beans, use the corn stalks for poles by
planting bean seeds at the base of the corn. Summer Reading Club for ages 0-3*
Choose from the library’s recommended early
If you have not eaten organic vegetables and fruits, picked from literacy activities, and color in one ducky for
the farm and freshly prepared, we are planning a Farm to Table each activity completed with your child. After
Dinner soon. More details will be available in the near future. 15 completed activities, come to the library for a small
But don’t wait until August. Plant your own vegetables now and prize. When 60 activities are completed, you'll earn a
you can begin enjoying your own produce very quickly! rubber ducky! Registration runs through August 1st.

*Youth Summer Reading programs are open to:
Residents of North Haven, children of Town of North Haven employees
grandchildren of North Haven residents, and non-resident North Haven Public
School students. For additional details, please see library staff.

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