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Several projects around the South End aimed at preserving and activating green spaces just got a major boost in funding. In January, King County awarded a combined $52 million to 32 projects across King County. It’s part of Executive Dow Constantine’s goal to save, preserve, and enhance the last 65,000 acres of urban canopy, forest, farmland, and green space around the county.
The funding, which comes partially from the Conservation Futures program, will help five projects in particular that span not only South Seattle, but also Sea-Tac, Burien, Skyway, and Tukwila. In Burien, money will go toward preserving a park in a low-income neighborhood and in Tukwila, toward the preservation of an urban farm. All together, those projects alone were funded for $4.7 million.
For now, most of the money will be used to acquire the properties, with further development planned later, once the purchases are approved.
In Sea-Tac, $630,000 was awarded to the City to purchase the wetlands behind the Emmanuel Reformed Baptist Church. Not only is the property surrounded by residential apartment complexes, but three blocks down the road is Bow Lake Elementary School, which William Appleton, Sea-Tac’s public works director, says could benefit from the outdoor space. “Provided we can work with the owner to buy a portion,” says Appleton, “that whole site is five acres.”
“[We could] integrate education and outreach with elements around conservation and water quality, birds, animals, flora, fauna,” says Appleton. Eventually, he said, he hopes the property will include walking paths, a boardwalk over the restored spring, and a proper path for neighborhood children to use to get to school from 180th to 182nd Street.
Bow Lake Elementary School Principal Alicia Gaynor is already game for a future where this may be possible. She provided a letter of support for the project with hopes that someday students could visit the wetlands for field trips.
“For example, tree restoration during Earth Week, identification of trees in the Northwest, and Exploring the natural environment within walking distance of the school,” she wrote.
In the unincorporated community of Skyway, where there are no forest trails and minimal parks, more than a million dollars was awarded to acquire the West Hill Urban Green Space.
“I’ve been working on this for some years to try to add more parks and green space in the West Hill community,” says King County project manager David Kimmett. “In the end, this is trying to balance the need for parks and green space in the community as well as affordable housing.”
The three-acre parcel of land is owned by the King County Housing Authority (KCHA), which is willing to sell two parcels for use as a park.
“This is the initial investment and it will take some time to actually activate this, but right now the first step is to invest in the land, in securing this piece of property and down the road look to do some planning and outreach for the community to add maybe a walking path or a small play area,” Kimmet says.
(Photo courtesy of King County.)
The Skyway project is adjacent to Foster Commons Apartments and two mobile home parks — Vue and Empire Vue — which are owned by the Manufactured Housing Community Preservationist (MHCP), a nonprofit affordable housing provider. KCHA plans to add one acre of that land to the mobile home park.
“Empire View and Vue contain 98 households, many with children and/or older family members sharing their homes,” wrote MHCP Executive Director Greg Blount. “Improving these parcels into a public park is an ideal use of the property, not just for Empire View and Vue, but for the entire Skyway neighborhood.”
Agueda Pacheco Flores is a journalist focusing on Latinx culture and Mexican American identity. Originally from Querétaro, Mexico, Pacheco Flores is inspired by her own bicultural upbringing as an undocumented immigrant and proud Washingtonian.
📸 Featured Image: Lakeview Park in Burien was one of the sites granted funds through King County’s program to preserve green spaces in the South End. (Photo courtesy of King County.)
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The 30th edition of the Mexican Open men’s tennis tournament in Acapulco is heating up, with the semi-finals to be played Friday night and the final scheduled for Saturday.
A field of 32 players in the main draw of the ATP 500 singles event has been whittled down to just four: Tommy Paul and Taylor Fritz of the United States, Holger Rune of Denmark and Alex de Minaur of Australia, with the winner receiving 500 ranking points.
Paul, the No. 7 seed and a semi-finalist at this year’s Australian Open, will meet Fritz, the No. 3 seed, in the first semi-final at the Arena GNP Seguros in the Diamante district of Acapulco, while 19-year-old Rune, the No. 4 seed, will take on de Minaur, the No. 8 seed, in the second semi.
The winners will face off Saturday night in the final of the hardcourt tournament, a lead-up event to the 2023 Indian Wells Masters in California, often called “the fifth slam” of professional tennis.
The Mexican Open champion will receive the “silver gourd” trophy and over US $375,000 in prize money. He will also win the right to don an oversized sombrero, a tradition of the tournament first played in Mexico City in 1993.
Spanish legend Rafael Nadal won last year’s event but did not to return to Acapulco to defend his title this year.
Mexican Rodrigo Pacheco was eliminated in a match with Australian Alex de Minaur. (Carlos Alberto Carbajal / Cuartoscuro.com
Semi-finals in the doubles event will also be played Friday, ahead of Saturday’s final.
Seventeen-year-old Yucatán native Rodrigo Pacheco Méndez was Mexico’s sole representative in the main singles draw but failed to pass the first round. The wildcard entrant, ranked outside the top 1,000 players in the world, was defeated 6-1, 6-2 by de Minaur.
Three Mexicans contested the main draw of the doubles event – two as a team and one with a French partner – but they too failed to progress to the second round.
The Mexican Open isn’t the only professional tennis tournament taking place in Mexico this week – The Monterrey Open, a women’s tournament branded this year as Abierto GNP Seguros, is underway at Club Sonoma in the Nuevo León capital. The final of the WTA 250 event will be played Sunday after semi-finals on Saturday and quarters on Friday.
No. 1 seed Caroline García of France remains in the hunt for the title. Fernanda Contreras Gómez, a 25-year-old San Luis Potosí native, lost in the first round.
The Monterrey tournament follows the Mérida Open in the Yucatán capital last week, won by Camila Giorgi of Italy.
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Soil Temperature Conditions for Vegetable Seed Germination
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Several factors can restrict seed germination. While the most discussed factor is soil water availability, soil temperature is also critical to ensure that the germination process starts. Particularly, optimum soil temperatures during the germination process increase plant emergence rate and growth.
In a vegetable greenhouse, soil temperature can be regulated by controlling the greenhouse air temperature, and it can be easily measured using thermometers (nonelectric thermometers, thermocouples, and thermistors. However, greenhouse soils can also be heated with biological material, water, and electronic products. Heating pads are the most common materials used to electronically heat greenhouse soil and can be easily found in agricultural supply stores. Maintaining optimum soil temperatures ensures plant root system development and aboveground growth. Under field conditions, optimum soil temperatures for seed germination can be achieved by selecting the proper planting date. See Alabama Extension publication “Vegetable Seasons in Alabama” (ANR-1165) at www. aces.edu. Growers can also use plastic mulching, cover crops, and other crop management practices to achieve the desired soil temperature. Table 1 presents the optimum soil temperatures required for most vegetable crops grown in Alabama. The goal is to provide growers with information to optimize their growing systems.
Soil Temperature Conditions for Vegetable Seed Germination
Vegetable
Soil Temperature (°F) Minimum
Soil Temperature (°F) Optimal Range
Soil Temperature (°F) Maximum
Soil Temperature (°F) Optimum
Asparagus
50
60–85
95
75
Bean, Lima
60
60–85
85
85
Bean, Snap
60
65–85
95
80
Beet
40
50–85
85
85
Cabbage
40
45–95
100
85
Carrot
40
45–85
95
80
Cauliflower
40
45–85
100
80
Celery
40
60–70
85
70
Chard, Swiss
40
50–85
95
85
Corn
50
60–95
105
95
Cucumber
60
60–95
105
95
Eggplant
60
75–90
95
85
Lettuce
35
40-80
85
75
Muskmelon (Cantaloupe)
60
75–95
100
90
Okra
60
70–95
105
95
Onion
35
50–95
95
75
Parsley
40
50–95
95
75
Parsnip
35
50–70
85
65
Pea, English
40
40-75
85
75
Pepper
60
65–95
95
85
Pumpkin
60
70-90
100
90
Radish
40
45–90
95
85
Spinach
35
45-75
85
70
Squash
60
70–95
100
95
Tomato
50
70–95
95
85
Turnip
40
60–105
105
85
Watermelon
60
70–95
105
95
References
Revised by Sthefani Oliveira, Research Assistant, and Andre da Silva, Extension Specialist, Assistant Professor, both in Horticulture with Auburn University. Originally written by Kerry Smith, Administrator, Outreach Programs, and Joseph Kemble, former Extension Specialist, both with Auburn University.
Revised January 2023, Soil Temperature Conditions for Vegetable Seed Germination, ANR-1061
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Revised by Sthefani Oliveira, Research Assistant, and Andre da Silva, Extension Specialist, Assistant Professor, both in Horticulture with Auburn University. Originally written by Kerry Smith, Administrator, Outreach Programs, and Joseph Kemble, former Extension Specialist, both with Auburn University.