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STA* f PHOTO t?v S*JSAN USME* August Yard Offers Variety A miniature windmill that turns in the breeze and u diverse array of plantings provide year-round in terest at the home of Ruth Asmussen ( above right), at 79 Magnolia, in Sea Trail, the August Yard of the Month for the Sunset Sands Garden Club. I' resenting the sign was club representative Marie Sum merlin (above left). Zoysia Grass Lawns Demand Attention Dear Plant Doctor: I sure hope you can help rue with my lawn. 1 have a nice zoysia grass stand es tablished 12 to 15 years ago. A sec tion of the lawn has recently begun to die. The grass turns pale, yellow ish and just dies out. The disease appears to be moving across the yard slowly., about 3 to 4 feet in six months. 1 have sprayed twice with diazi non, twice with malathion and twice for fungus with the fungicide "Fore". Still no luck in controlling progression of the disease. It's had plenty of water. 1 have fertilized with a strong nitrogen base mixed with 8-8-8 fertilizer. I have looked for ground pearls but did not see any. 1 am slumped. Please help. Answer: Zoysia grass is the "king" of warm season grasses. Zoysia is the most tolerant of the warm season grasses to winter kill and many other problems that plague grasses. On the other side of the coin, zoysia grass requires intensive maintenance and a very sharp lawn mower, preferably a reel type mow er. Until recently only about three cultivars? Emerald, Meyer and Cashmere ? were generally avail able in this area, hut this will proba bly change in the next several years. THE /^\ PLANT f 1 DOCTOR 1 -r ... ?i C. BRUCE WILLIAMS Extension Area Turf Specialist I suspect your problem is clue to either ground pearls or a fungus problem called "rust" or Puccinia zoysiae. Rust on zoysia grass is eas ily diagnosed by looking for a gold en yellow dust or tiny yellow-brown lesions on the grass blades. These symptoms are most commonly found on the living grass at the in terlace of the diseased area. Planus experiencing environmen tal stress, such as shade, dry or wet soils, hot. humid weather, too much or too lutle nitrogen, etc., tend to be more prone to this disease. Fungicides will protect healthy grass from infection and allow su perficially infected grass to regener ate new uninfected tissues. Fore (manco/.eb) is among the fungicides recommended by the N.C. Agricultural Chemicals Manual lor control ol rust. Other recommended turf grass fungicides that should also control the problem arc Banner (propicona /olc), Baylcton (triadimcfon) or Daconil 2787 (chlorthalonil). Be sure to follow label instructions when applying any pcsticidc. Early this summer I inspected an Emerald zoysia grass lawn that was totally consumed by ground pearls. Just because you cannot find ground pearls docs not mean that they are not the problem. Pearl buns are ex tremely small and difficult to detect this time of year. There is no reme dy for ground pearls at this time. For positive identification of the problem, you will need to take a sod sample (from the edge of the infect ed area) to your county extension office. N.C. Slate University Cooperative Extension Service has recently pub lished an excellent publication on /oysia grass. Please send a SASE to me or sec your local extension agent lor a copy of Z oysiagrass Lawn Cal endar Publication AG432. Readers, thank you for all the let ters you have sent the past several weeks. I have received do/ens of questions and/or requests for infor mation. I'll reply as soon as |H)ssi ble. Thanks for reading the column. Send your gardening questions to The Plant Doctor. P (). Box 109. Bolivia. N.C. 2X422. United Way Agencies To Meet With Public Agcncics serving Brunswick County will participate in the Cape Fear Area United Way agency lair Friday. Aug. 30, at 11 a.m.. ai the Brunswick County Government Center in Bolivia. Open to the public, the fonim is held so agencies can answer the pub lie's questions regarding services to Brunswick County residents. Scheduled to attend are these agencies: the Cape Fear Chapter of the American Red Cross: Brigade Boys' Club; Brunswick Adult Day Care: Brunswick County Literacy Council; Brunswick County Vol unteer and Information Center; Cape Fear Council Boy Scouts of America; Children's Home Society; Cape Fear Substance Abuse Center; Eldcrhaus; Family Services of the Lower Cape Fear; Also, Girl Scout Council of Coastal Carolina; Hope Harbor Home; Lower Cape Fear Hospice; Rx For hxcellence; Southeastern Sickle Cell Association; Stepping Stone Manor/Pathway House; The Salvation Army; Wilmington Fam ily YMCA; and Young Women's Christian Association. The following Unncd Way repre sentatives will also discuss the ser vices available to Brunswick County residents and the 1991-92 campaign and allocations process: Joseph Stevenson, Brunswick County campaign chair; Folly Kuss, allocations chair; and H. Lee White side Jr., campaign chair. VFD Slates Dinner Bolivia VFD Auxiliary will hold a chicken or ham dinner Saturday, Aug. 31. from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the fire station on Green Lewis Koad in Bolivia. Plates arc S3.50 each, said spokesman Ann Bowling. BRUNSWICK SCHOOL CF HWY 17 I I SUPPLY CLASSES BEGIN SEPT. 3 AGES 3 TO ADULT Ballet ? Pointe ? Tap Acrobatics ? Jazz AEROBICS FOR ADULTS Tuesday & Thursday Nights at 7 PM Come join the fun and get in shape! CLASS SIZE LIMITED ? PROFESSIONAL STAFF CALL FOR MORE INFORMATION Van service available from schools and day cares. Valerie Taylor, Director ? 754-6106/754-8281 * ? 0 1 m * Q or at I Ann W. Mucks g| (Dance Connection Resort Plaza, Hwy 17 S., Shallotte ? 754-8884 Fall Registration Sunday, August 25, 2-5:00 pm Ballet ? Pointe ? Tap ? Jazz Ages 3 to Adult i 1987 Graduate of UNC G wHfev ' ? Bachelor of Creative Arts Degree ance ?Certification to teach K-12 in dance in public schools. Learn HOW to dance, not just A dance. Teen's First Novel Wrapped In History Of Fort Caswell ItV TKKKY POPK Alicia Conn's llrst Uxtk was written in secret. She presented 11 lit her mother as a surprise Christinas gilt. Since then, Alieia has become a published writer at the age ol i 5. The Oak Island teen-ager has published a 65-page historical ro mance based on the tall of Fort Caswell, a Civil War lort bombard ed by Union soldiers in 1865. Ilk old fort is now the site of the N.C. Baptist Assembly retreat near her home. She began writing Till Caswell Fell in the summer of I WO and cap lured first place with it in the Roben Ruark Foundation short story con test in Southport. The story mostly involves con flict, as war ai d separation confront two teens w no discover they love one another "My favorite writers do have a lot of conflict in their stories," she said. "It's fun to write. It's a part of life and a little more realistic." The main character, Georgia Fos sct, is 15 and falls in love with a Confederate soldier, Johnny Slate. Georgia's twin brother has joined the Confederate forces, but another brother has sided with the enemy When the Confederates evacuate the fori, she and Johnny flee in dif ferent directions, only to be reunited in the end. Georgia was developed from a combination of persons Alicia has known, including one of her best friends and a little bit of hersell. "Georgia Fossei dews have some of my traits," she said. "She doesn't exactly follow all of the rules." Alicia consulted history texts be fore writing her novel. Site had the ending in mind before she even started, which is a little different from how she usually writes. After winning die short story' contest, she added several chapters before send ing the work off to be published. "Usually, 1 don't know how it's going to end. except when 1 get to the end," she said. Three other works are finished and several others are in the plan ning stages. The home-schooled au thor began writing at age 12, during an illness that kept her confined. That first book. Lost Love, she describes as one "written by a Christian to troubled teens." For there is a lost of love that docs not necessarily involve ro mance, said her mother, Nancy. "It's about a girl that's suicidal, with everything going down at once." said Alicia. "I want to reach out to teen-agers that have problems like this, to let them know there is an answer to some of these ques tions." During the illness, she says, "It seemed like everything was happen ing at once. Things were not exactly going well." Writing a historical romance was a change from her usual teen-age STAFF PHOTO BY TERRY POPE INTEREST IN THE Cape Eear region during the Civil War led to t licia Conn's first published book , Till Caswell Fell. stories. I he book is dedicated to Mclanic Cox, a longtime friend. "She has been a great source of encouragement," said Alicia. She enjoys writing in late evenings and in private, occasional ly testing chapters with her sister, Kristen, 13, whom Alicia says is honest in saying what parts she likes and doesn't like about a partic ular work m progress. While writing late at night, she says, she becomes absorbed with the siory that unfolds, never know ing where the next chapter will lead. In finishing Till Caswell Fell, she kept looking over her shoulder at nights, sensing that a character from her novel would be there. "You gel so involved," she said. A break becomes a walk on the beach just outside her home. In the novel, Georgia aiso took walks along the beach to relieve stress Irom her job helping nurse Confederate soldiers, just long enough to do some thinking. "When you go to the beach, it's very inspiring," she said. "You have to love this area to be able to appre ciate it." Her other talents are m drawing and designing jewelry, and she has plans to attend a Bible college. Till Caswell Fell has entered a second printing and Alicia has spent the summer meeting people, young authors like herself, at book sign ings. The book is available at local stores. "The community has been very supportive," she said. "People seem interested in reading about their area." There are plans to publish other works in the future, but she said there is no rush. She will take lime to polish some works already in her portfolio. Her parents believe that patience is the best approach. "She's learned a lot from litis book." said her mother. "I don't want her to grow to dislike writing." 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