MG Snippets 7-22-11

MG Snippets 7-22-11

This week on Your Southern Garden with Walter Reeves: How to have a pretty lawn, lawn mowing 101 and propagating figs. YSG airs Saturdays at noon and 6:30 pm on GPB TV.

THIS WEEKEND
JONESBORO: Saturday, July 23rd at 10:00 A.M. in the Old Fire Station on Mill Street the Jonesboro Farmers Market, in conjunction with the Clayton County Extension Office and Master Gardeners, are sponsoring a free Master Gardener Program about “Poisonous Plants”. We live side by side with common plants that are poisonous, which we use for decoration and to add value to the landscape. Master Gardener Cliff Pauling will identify and discuss these plants and categorize them together with remedies for misuse of them. Please let us know if you will be attending so enough handouts are available for the program. To reserve your free seat please call Tom Bonnell, Clayton County Extension at 770-473-5434.

THOMASVILLE, GA: Birdsong Nature Center presents Gardening for Butterflies Saturday, July 23 10AM to Noon. Janeen Langley has had a passion for butterflies and butterfly gardening since the early 90’s. Her own garden has been her classroom and she has learned how to attract butterflies with the kinds of plants needed by all stages of a butterfly’s life cycle. Join us for a hands-on workshop to get you started on creating your own butterfly garden. Janeen will show photographs of some of the best nectar and larval food plants and then we will visit the Birdsong Butterfly Garden for on-site instruction. Janeen will also teach you how to raise these beautiful and valuable pollinators from egg to adult. $8 Friends $12, non-members, children half-price. RESERVATIONS PLEASE. Call or e-mail by Friday, July 22nd. 800-953-2473 or birdsong@birdsongnaturecenter.org. Participants will receive a free purple coneflower that Janeen has raised herself, a list of butterfly species and their larval host plants and preferred nectar plants, and a butterfly bumper sticker. A continental breakfast is included in the cost. http://www.birdsongnaturecenter.org/
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UPCOMING
GREENSBORO: Lunchbag Lectures The Greene County Master Gardeners are proud to present Dr. George Boyhan, Vegetable Specialist for the UGA Department of Horticulture on July 28th @ 11:30 am. Dr. Boyhan will be discussing Organic Vegetable Gardening. Weed control, fertilization, disease control, insect control and tips for switching to organics are some of the topics on the agenda. Come and join us for the 4th in our “Lunchbag Lecture Series” at the Greene County Extension Office located at 1180 C. Weldon Smith Dr. (next to the Driver License office). Sandwich, chips and a drink are only $6.00 and are provided by the Master Gardeners. The seminar is free to all. While at the Extension Office check our demonstration vegetable garden. This garden shows 3 ways to grow veggies. Raised beds, container planting and in ground. If you have any questions or need directions contact Myra Stewart @ 706-453-2083.

JONESBORO: Saturday, July 30th at 10:00 A.M. in the Old Fire Station on Mill Street, the Jonesboro Farmers Market in conjunction with the Clayton County Extension Office, will offer a free Program about “Food Preservation - Preserving Summer”. Sandy Foster will talk about supplies, methods and correct up to date new information. Please let us know if you will be attending so enough handouts are available for the program. To reserve your free seat please call Tom Bonnell, Clayton County Extension at 770-473-5434.

CALHOUN: Three Sisters Dinner and Auction to benefit New Echota State Historic Site. Saturday, August 13, 2011 5pm at The Velo Vineyard 106 North Wall Street, Calhoun, GA. Social hour, dinner buffet based on the Three Sisters Garden, & auction. CALL 706-624-1321 FOR INFORMATION. http://friendsofgastateparks.org/newechota/events/110813.pdf

SUWANEE: Gwinnett Master Gardener Meeting August 15th- temporary location at the George Pierce Park's Senior Activity Center, 55 Hwy 23 NE, Suwanee, GA 30024 (770) 822-5414. There will be a covered dish dinner at 6:30, with the program following at 7 p.m. You are welcome to join us for dinner but please bring a dish to share; otherwise come for the program at 7 p.m. Speaker Aaron Poulsen will present a program on Tree Inventories – Why and How. He explains that Urban Forestry is the discipline of caring for the trees that we work, live, and play among every day and that our urban forests are becoming more and more valued and are receiving the attention they deserve. He will show us how to improve and grow the canopy of our trees starting with taking a proper inventory of what we have. Come find out what is going on statewide and what you can do on the scale of your own urban forest. Aaron Poulsen comes to us with a background in retail garden centers, public gardens, estate gardening, grounds management, and horticulture education. Aaron has been the Horticulture Program Director at Gwinnett Technical College since April of 2009. He is a Horticulturist, Georgia Certified Landscape Professional, Georgia Certified Plant Professional, and a Certified Irrigation Contractor. Come join us and learn more about our trees. Gwinnett Cooperative Extension. (678) 377-4010 .

BLAIRSVILLE: Union County Farmer’s Market Community Flower Show, August 18 – 20, 2011. Entries accepted August 18th, noon – 3:00 p.m., Haralson Memorial Civic Center. Open to the public August 19th, 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and August 20th, 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. No entry or admission fees. Email questions to ucflowershow@aol.com

PERRY: The Houston County Extension Office is offering a Fall Vegetable Gardening class to area homeowners who want to know how to double their growing season and enjoy fresh vegetables year round. The class will be taught August 18 from 6:30-8:30 PM in the Extension Office Multipurpose Room located on the top floor of the old courthouse in Perry. Cost for the class is $10 per person. Tim Flanders, UGA Extension agent, will be discussing cool weather crops, planting times, and pests. For a registration form, call 478-987-2028, email mg@uga.edu or download one from the Extension website at http://www.caes.uga.edu/extension/houston/news.html
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SAVE THE DATE

ATHENS: Gold in Your Garden II September 14, 2011 with featured Speakers Coach Vince Dooley, Dr. Wilf Nichols, Rita Randolph and Matthew Chappell with a Gold Medal Plant Sale and Raffle for Garden Supplies.
http://georgiagoldmedalplants.org/