
Extension Master Gardeners help lots of things grow. Including themselves.
Join us. APPLY TO BECOME A GOODHUE COUNTY MASTER GARDENER by OCT 1, 2020 at: z.umn.edu/mgapplication or contact 651-385-3100 or goodhuemgs@gmail.com
Extension Master Gardeners help lots of things grow. Including themselves.
Join us. APPLY TO BECOME A GOODHUE COUNTY MASTER GARDENER by OCT 1, 2020 at: z.umn.edu/mgapplication or contact 651-385-3100 or goodhuemgs@gmail.com
Links mentioned in the above podcast
“Planning Your Landscape for the Bees, Butterflies and Birds“:
Goodhue County Extension Master Gardeners give presentations to garden clubs and other community groups all over the area on a variety of different horticultural topics. Here is a list of the available programs:
Installing a Rain Garden
Attracting Hummingbirds
Managing Oriental Bittersweet and other Woody Invasives
No-till Gardening
Hugelkultur Gardening
Monastic Herb Gardening
Shoreland Restoration
How to Prune Trees
Making a Faerie Garden
Understanding Plant Patents
Invasive Plants
Landscaping for Birds
Organic Gardening
Purchasing and Planting the Right Tree
Planning and Building a Public Garden
The MN Extension Master Gardener Program
Establishing Ground Covers
Planting for Fragrance
Planning a Potager (Kitchen Garden)
A Visit to Public Gardens Around the World
For more information about having a Goodhue County Extension Master Gardener speak to your group, please contact Terry L. Yockey at goodhuemgs@gmail.com or call the Extension office at 651-385-3100.
You know the saying: “think globally, act locally”. Honoring the earth can be as simple as being greener in your garden.
As gardeners we get to celebrate Earth Day all year. As Master Gardeners and educators we are fortunate to have opportunities to multiply that appreciation.
I came across an article by Jennifer Davit (Director of the Lurie Garden in Chicago’s Millennium Park) on Celebrating Earth Day by Sharing Gardening Tips in the Chicago Sun Tribune. Her six suggestions are as applicable for Goodhue County as they are to Millennium Park in downtown Chicago:
We can do that!
I am sure Karen would add a seventh bullet promoting no till gardening to reduce weeds and protect soil. We can do that too!
It won’t be long..
One of the great things about gardening and being a Master Gardener is you never stop learning. Have you stumbled on the Garden Professors Blog yet? If not its worth a peruse.
The blog is hosted by Dr. Jeff Gillman, Associate Professor of Horticulture at the University of Minnesota, and Dr. Linda Chalker-Scott, Associate Professor of Horticulture and Extension Specialist at Washington State University, Dr. Holly Scoggins, Associate Professor of Horticulture at Virginia Tech and Dr. Bert Cregg, Associate Professor of Horticulture and Forestry at Michigan State University. Washington State University.
The site even includes an “Ask an Expert” section where you can post questions to garden experts from across the country. With these experts on our side how can we go wrong?