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Queen Anne’s County Master Gardener Newsletter

The Watering Can

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Coordinators

Corner

2

2011 Monthly

Meetings

3

Leopold Bench 4

Garden Affair &

Plant Sale

5

Emerging Forest Pests

6-7

Bay-Wise 7

Grow It Eat It 8-9

Advanced Training 9

Project Clean Stream

10

Demo Gardens 10

Longwood Gardens Trip

11

Volunteer Opportunities

11

Educational Opportunities

11

Calendar 12

Calendar 13

April 20th Meeting:

Pollinators with Mike Embrey

Judy, a resident of Church Hill, joined the Queen Anne’s Master Gardeners with the class of 2008. Since joining Judy has been an active member, participating in many MG activities including: The Annual Garden Affair, Junior Master Gardeners, Demogarden cleanups

and many more. Thank you Judy for all of your hard work and dedication to the QAC MG’s. We are so lucky to have you in our program!

Did you know that bees can fly at about 7 miles per hour and that they have to beat their wings 190 times per second to do it? Also, almost 90% of all flowering plants rely on animal pollinators for fertilization, and about 200,000 species of ani-mals act as pollinators. Of those, 1,000 are hummingbirds, bats, and small mammals such as mice. The rest are insects like beetles, bees, ants, wasps, but-terflies and moths. Worldwide, approxi-mately 1,000 plants grown for food, beverages, fibers, spices,

and medicines need to be polli-nated by animals in order to produce the goods on which we depend. Our April 20th meeting at WREC (see page 3) from 9:30am to 11:30am will fo-cus on Pollina-tors and their im-portant role with the home land-scape. Our speaker will be Mike Embrey, UME Apiary Spe-cialist.

MG of the Month: Judy Cahall-Conley

Submitted by Julie Tompkins,

with additions by Neenah

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Coordinator’s Corner

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UPDATE YOUR

CONTACT INFO!

Please send any changes

to Rachel Melvin at

rmelvin1@umd.edu,

505 Railroad Ave,

Suite 4,

Centreville, MD 21617

or fax: (410) 758-3687

Rachel Melvin,

Master Gardener

Coordinator

Jane Chambers, Kit Foster, Susan McRae, Louise Shearer, and Joe Jelich for being a host/hostess at Advanced Bay-Wise Training. Linda Doub and Gayle Jayne for doing Grow It Eat It talks. Sandy Simonson and Billy Gibson for being our March Meeting Hostess.

Judy Geggis, Debbie Pusey, Susan Seth, Judy Conley, Jim Persels and Jackie Kelly for help-ing with the Centreville Library Raingarden clean up. As always, thanks is due to all of you, but if we missed a deserved thank you or if you wish to express your appreciation to someone, please let Rachel know and it shall be acknowledged in the next newsletter.

Thanks To:

Signs of Spring

Is anyone else happy that we had the first day of Spring?? I cannot tell you how happy I am to finally see spring emerge after this long cold winter. I’m sure that many of you are feeling the same way after being cooped up in the house for so long. Just to see the trees budding and daffodils sprouting, means that its almost time to start the garden.

I can hardly believe that we are a little over 6 weeks till our 4th An-nual Garden Affair. Plan-ning is in full swing (see page 5) for opportuni-ties to help out!

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Date Topic Time Place

Wednesday, April 20, 2011 Pollinators Speaker: Mike Embry

9:30am to 11:30 am Wye Research and Education

Center

Wednesday, May 11, 2011 * Week Earlier due to Annual

Training Day*

Composting Speaker: Lew Shell

9:30am to 11:30 am Tilghman Terrace

Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Picnic 11:30 am to 2 pm Linda & Jack Doubs Home

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 Bay-Wise 9:30am to 11:30 am Tilghman Terrace

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Orchids Speaker: Roger Cole

9:30am to 11:30 am Arbec’s Greenhouse

Ridgeley, MD

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 Bring One Get One, Bring Two Get Two

9:30am to 11:30 am Tilghman Terrace

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Planning 2012 9:30am to 11:30 am Tilghman Terrace

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

* Week early due to Holiday*

Holiday Luncheon Place???

Monthly Meetings are held the

3rd Wednesday of the month and start

at 9:30 AM

WREC

P.O. Box 169

Queenstown, MD 21658

410.827.8056 The WREC is seven miles southeast of Queenstown. From US

Route 50 West, turn Left onto Carmichael Road. From US Route

50 East, turn Right onto Carmichael Road. About one-half mile

beyond the Carmichael Methodist Church, turn right onto Cheston

Lane. Follow Cheston Lane past Education Lane on the left. Turn

left at the second lane. Meetings will be held in the conference

room of the red brick WREC Administration Building. Please en-

ter through the main administrative office door.

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The winning ticket holder also will receive a copy of Aldo Leopold’s famous book, A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There.

Leopold Bench Raffle

Sponsored by the Queen Anne’s County Master Gardeners

The “Leopold Bench” is named for the famous conservationist Aldo Leopold. He designed a bench like this which sat in front of “The Shack” on his farm in Wisconsin. The bench is hand-crafted of western red cedar, a sustainably-harvested wood. If left untreated the bench will fade to a gray patina. The life of the bench can be extended by coating it with preservative, especially where it contacts the ground. Even if you haven’t read Leopold’s opening lines, “There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These essays are the delights and di-lemmas of one who cannot,” from A Sand County Almanac, you will appreciate this bench. Aldo Leopold wrote about our place in the natural world. He promoted conser-vation of natural resources and an ethical relationship between people and the land. His simple, sturdy bench design reflects these ideals.

Please stop by the Extension Office to pick up your ticket !

Hand Crafted by Master Gardener,

Joe Jelich

Tickets $2 or

6 tickets for $10

Drawing to be held on

Saturday, May 21, 2011,

at the

4th Annual Master Gardener

‘Garden Affair’ located at the

Centreville Library & Historic

Wright’s Chance

in Centreville, MD.

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Garden Affair Update Submitted by: MG Susan Seth (Chairperson)

The planning committee has a wonderful Garden Affair planned for the community this year on Saturday, May 21 from 10 until 2. We are working hard to publicize the event to increase our community participa-tion. Please include the event in the newslet-ters of your communities and organizations. We also have flyers available for you to post in your neighborhoods. Contact Rachel if you want her to e-mail a newsletter article or a copy of the flyer to use for publicity.

We are developing invitations to the event that we hope each Master Gardener will use to invite at least 10 people to the Garden Affair. Remember it will be an event with many activities for both children and

adults. We will have copies available at the April 20 meeting. If each Master Gardener has 3 or 4 individuals or families who attend the Gar-den Affair, it will be a huge success.

Thank you to the Master Gardeners who have volunteered to fill many of the jobs that are necessary for a successful event. We are still in need of volunteers, particularly for set-up (8am-10am), to blow up the helium balloons (8am-10am), and to serve as greeters (10am-2pm). Contact Rachel to sign up to fill one of these needs or to find another volunteer spot that appeals to you.

Keep your eye out for useful gardening items for our Green Elephant sale. Be sure to price them in advance. All of our bakers out there are needed to supply those yummy home baked items for our bake sale. Judy Geggis will provide information in the May newsletter about the type of items allowed by the Health Department and how we will need to package them.

Before we know it the Garden Affair will be here, for all of those who are growing plants to be sold please remember:

Favorite houseplants can be propagated (not too many spider plants, please!) When starting seeds indoors for your own garden, sow some extras (herbs & veggies are popular) and pot them up Sharing your divided perennials is ap-preciated by new & experienced garden-ers Any “volunteer” (flower, tree, or shrub) can be potted up for sale. Offering plants on the invasive list (English Ivy, Nandina, Ajuga, barberry for example) is

strongly discouraged. Healthy plants, labeled with the Latin and common names, color of bloom, bloom time, growing condi-tions (sun/shade), the more information the bet-ter. Labels can be masking tape, plastic tabs. Tabs can be made easily by cutting milk cartons or clear soft drink bottles up into short lengths with a pointed bottom, use Magic Marker or Sharpie to write on them. Plant trays for display and custom-ers’ use. Anyone who needs small pots can contact Rachel or Karen. We will price plant items. Near the end of the day the prices will be reduced on re-maining plants.

Submitted by: MG Carole Colavito

Garden Affair Meetings Don’t forget to mark your calendars: · Monday, March 14, 2011-9 A.M. · Monday, April 11, 2011- 9 A.M. · Monday, May 9, 2011-9 A.M. · Post meeting Tuesday, May 24, 2011-9 A.M.

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Highlights from the Forest Stewardship Program Webinar, presented on Feb. 15, 2011. For a complete re-

cording of the presentation and other webinars, and webinar opportunities, go to

www.naturalresources.umd.edu. I am told this presentation will be online shortly.

Ambrosia Beetles….(Xylosandurs germanius )

Spring is coming, and with that, the first generation of the Ambrosia Beetle. The

beetle will overwinter in leaf litter and come out when it warms up in March. It

will procreate two more times in the season, with evidence showing up again in

June and August. The main concern is the invasive variety, not the natives. And

unfortunately, it goes after healthy trees. Females bore into the tree and nest just

under the bark. Look for a wet, gelatinous area and then a small circle of sawdust.

At this point, it can be treated with insecticide. Once you see sawdust and beetle

waste sticking out, like a cigarette butt, it is too late to treat. The whole will be invaded by secondary fungi,

and ultimately, the tree will die. The beetle is attracted to alcohol (hmmm, Webinar didn’t say if it was rub-

bing alcohol or Jim Beam!) Traps baited with alcohol are used to collect the beetles for identification and

extermination. The beetles are a very serious problem for nurseries, because there is no way of predicting

which type of tree the beetle will hit. Growers are injecting alcohol in target trees and intending to use insec-

ticide when the beetles return.

Send samples to the Clarksville, MD research center.

Contact Stanton Gill at sgilll@umd.edu

A fact sheet can be found on: www.ipmnet.umd.edu

Thousand Canker Disease

Geosmithia morbida fungus, transported by the Walnut Twig Beetle (pityophthorous juglands).

The disease which attacked walnut trees out west has crossed the Mississippi River and unexpectedly ap-

peared in Knoxville, Tennesee. Maryland has reason to be concerned. Making its nest, a gallery, just under

the bark, the Walnut Twig Beetle lives in the trunk in winter and awakens in Spring to feed on tip growth.

The dark brown discoloration surrounding the gallery is indicative of fungi dam-

age invading the phloem of the inner bark. It girdles the tree and kills it. From

the outside, you will see a crack, but the bark does not slough off. A grey or

white cast is a collection of spores that the beetle

will carry to other trees. This is a top-down disease,

so look for scattered dead branches with leaves at-

tached and dead branches in the crown. The time to watch is mid-June to Au-

gust, because the timing of Fall defoliation can make it difficult to identify.

There is no treatment. Wood crafters taking logs from the forest should leave

the bark in the woods and transport a clean log, because the hidden beetles can

live for up to 10 months on a seemingly dead log. Maryland has no quarantine

at the moment, but some states do. Since there are abiotic look-alikes that will defoliate a tree, send samples

for testing. Use 1 inch thick twigs about 6 inches long. Send live samples with beetle holes, and double bag to

prevent spreading. To find your nearest diagnostic lab, go to www.npdn.org or contact your extension ser-

vice.

Oak Wilt

Oak Wilt (Ceratocystis Fagacearum) is a fungus spread from tree to tree through root grafts and insects. It is

prevalent in the mid-west and Appalachians, and Texas, and has moved into Western Maryland and upstate

New York.

Overwintering in dead trees under the bark, it establishes a pressure pad, which breaks. Sap beetles eat the

spores and deposit them into wounds on oak trees, especially if there is a fresh cut. It goes into the xylem and

Emerging and Current Forest Threats in Maryland Submitted by: MG Lin Goldkrantz

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blocks water transport. Red oaks will die in 2 months. White oaks can last 2 years, but will die. In May through July, look for

leaves that are browning from the margins in. It shows up earlier than bacterial scorch, and there is a sudden defoliation of a

mix of leaves…green and brown. There will be brown streaking in the wood. When the dead areas crack, you will see discol-

oration. But the fungus must be identified under a microscope. Collect recently defoliated leaves and 1 inch thick wood, 6-8

inches long, and pack dry. Keep cool, even using an ice pack, when preparing and shipping samples. Try to avoid pruning in

April through July when the beetles are flying. Prune during dormant season. Remove infected trees and trench around

neighboring trees to prevent root grafts. High value Uninfected trees can be injected with Alamo or propiconazole to protect

them.

Go to : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVUZsvyZfVE for more information. If this link does not open, got to you-

tube.com and search Oak Wilt.

Other recommended resources from the presentation:

MD Dept. of Agriculture Forest Pest Management: www.mda.state.md.us/plants-pests/forest_pest_mgmt/

Univ. of MD Extension Home and Garden Information Center Plant Diagnostics: http://plantdiagnostics.umd.edu

Emerald Ash Borer information: http://www.emeraldashborer.info/

Maryland EAB information: http://www.hgic.umd.edu/content/emeraldAshBorer.cfm

Thousand Cankers Disease: http://na.fs.fed.us/pubs/palerts/cankers_disease/thousand_cankers_disease_print_res.pdf (3.7 MB)

Bark Beetles on Conifers: http://www.hgic.umd.edu/_media/documents/BarkBeetlesonConifershg1pfv.pdf

Emerging and Current Forest Threats in Maryland continued

Congratulations to: Jane Chambers, Kit Foster, Jim Persels, Joe Jelich, Stephanie Simpson, Susan McRae, Lori Sharer, and Louise Shearer for success-fully completing Bay-Wise Advanced Training on Tuesday, March 15th.

Our next Bay-Wise meeting will be held directly following the April

20th MG Meeting at 11:30 am

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Grow It Eat It

April

Continue to sow lettuce, spinach, Swiss chard, beets and other favorite salad vegetables.

Thin seedlings of leafy greens, to a few inches apart and eat the ones you pull. Check planting chart for fi-nal spacing between mature plants.

Plant seeds of carrots, turnips and parsnips in deeply worked, well-drained soil.

Start Brussels sprouts indoors, under lights, to be planted in late May, for fall harvest.

Start tomato seeds indoors under lights, to be ready for transplanting outdoors in six to eight weeks.

Don’t jump the gun with warm sea-son crops; plant outside only after all danger of frost is past. (Night tem-peratures below 45º F. can damage plants and later fruiting.)

Optional: lay down black plastic mulch to warm the soil, two to three weeks before planting warm season crops, like tomato, pepper, eggplant, and melon. Plastic mulch also keeps down weeds. (Biodegradable non-plastic mulch, made out of corn, is n o w a v a i l a b l e ; www.highmowingseeds.com is one source.)

Sow beans and corn outdoors late this month or early May, when soil temperatures are above 50º F. (Or pre-start them indoors to get them off to a faster start.)

Start squash, melon and cucumbers indoors to be transplanted in the garden, in two to three weeks. (These plants also benefit from black

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plastic or biodegradable mulch.) Or, plant them di-rectly in the garden, in late May through mid-June.

Queen Anne’s County Free Library in Stevensville: · Wednesday, April 13, 2011

from 6:30 to 7:30 pm-Container Gardening & Raised Beds

· Wednesday, May 11, 2011 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm-Composting made Simple

· Wednesday, June 22, 2011 from 6:30 to 7:30 pm-Vegetable Gardening IPM

Queen Anne’s County Free Library in Centreville: · Wednesday, April 13, 2011

from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. - Container Gardening

· Wednesday, May 25, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.– Vegetable Gardening IPM

· Wednesday, June 8, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. – Ex-tending the Season for Fall Harvest

Kent County Extension Office in Chestertown: · Tuesday, April 12, 2011 from

7 to 8 pm-Unusual Fruits for the Backyard

· Tuesday, May 10, 2011 from 7 to 8 pm-Vegetable Garden-ing IPM

Check out all of these Grow It Eat It Classes

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Grow It Eat It continued

· Tuesday, June 7, 2011 from 7 to 8 pm-Extending the Season: Summer Planting for Fall Harvest

Sudlersville Memorial Library: Thursday, April 14, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m-Herbs & Planting an Edible Landscape Thursday, May 13, 2011 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m-Growing Great Tomatoes

Master Gardener Annual Training Day Master Gardener Annual Training Day is open to all Master

Gardeners and Master Gardener interns.

ANNUAL TRAINING DAY HIGHLIGHTS • Keynote Speaker-Pat Stone

• 33 Workshops to choose from

• Continental Breakfast

• Delicious Box Lunch

• Free Parking

• Tradeshow/Exhibits • 600+ MG’s from across the state

• all classes (except labs and walks) in same building for

2011

If you need assistance to participate in the Annual Training

Day program, contact Robin Hessey at least 2 weeks prior to

the program -410-531-1754 (tel.); 410-531-5567 (fax);

rmhessey@umd.edu

Schedule: May 17, 2011

7:45-8:30 AM REGISTRATION, REFRESH-

MENTS TRADE SHOW/EXHIBITS

Grand Ballroom, Stamp Student Union

8:30-8:55 AM OPENING REMARKS

Grand Ballroom, Stamp Student Union

* Dr. Cheng-i Wei, Dean & Director, UME

* Jon Traunfeld, Extension Specialist, State

MG Coordinator, and HGIC Center Direc-

tor, UME

8:55-9:15 AM HGIC PLAYERS

9:15-10:15 AM KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Grand Ballroom, Stamp Student Union

"Greatest Garden Stories Ever Told." Pat Stone, gardening author, speaker

and performer. Humorous, heartfelt and

inspiring true garden stories.

10:30-12noon - SESSION I workshops

12:00-1:00 PM LUNCH & TRADE SHOW/EXHIBITS

MG IDENTITY ITEM SALE

Grand Ballroom, Stamp Student Union

1:15-2:45 PM - SESSION II workshops

3:00-4:30 PM - SESSION III workshops

Registration Fee: $69

Registration Deadline: 4/18/2011

To register online go to mastergar-

dener.umd.edu and click on Annual Training

Day 2010. If you have not received the Annual

Training Day brochure and would like one

contact Rachel.

April 18, 2011 - MG Annual Training Day Registrations must be received (for $69

rate). After this date, registra-tions are $79.

I can’t wait for Annual

Training Day!!!

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T H E W A T E R I N G C A N

On Saturday, April 2, 2011, from 9-

12 a.m., the community will once again

come together to help clean up the Corsica

River watershed. Volunteers are needed at

four designated sites.

Centreville City Wharf

Millstream Park

North Brook

Symphony Village at the Bioswale

Join in the fun at the site of your choice. Gloves and trash containers will be pro-

vided. Contact Jim Persels at 410-758-6513 for further information.

Demonstration Garden submitted by MG: Debbie Pusey & Alice Macnow

Spring is almost here and I know that we

are all gearing up to get outside.

Demo garden work schedule:

April 21– Millstream at 9:30

May 19- Library Rain Garden at 9:00

June 16 and July 21 –Library Rain Garden at

9:00

August 18 – Millstream at 9:00

September 15–Library Rain Garden at 9:00

October 20 – Millstream at 9:30 and

November 17 –Library Rain Garden at 9:30

The locations may change if we feel one garden

or the other needs more or less attention. The

town has been taking care of the garden at Rt

213 north since they now have a ‘Welcome to

Centreville’ sign there.

Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge-

Butterfly Garden

Garden cleanup work is starting

up at Eastern Neck Wildlife Ref-

uge butterfly garden, which is a

demonstration garden in the Mas-

ter Gardener's program. MG's are able to

count their volunteer hours done at ENWR

for cleanup days, which are held on Thurs-

days from about 9:00AM to noon (varies a

bit according to the weather). Dave Gauntt

and Zeeger deWilde are usually there much

earlier (and much later.) Everyone is wel-

come, please check in at the lodge to record

volunteer hours for ENWR and also record

your MG hours for Rachel. ENWR is 7

miles south of Rock Hall, take route 20 to

Rock Hall, then Main Street South from the

center of town to the Refuge. The garden

is down the road to the right where the sign

says Butterfly/Bayview. The lodge is a lit-

tle farther down the main road to the right

where it says Office/bookstore/Lodge.

Bring gloves, your favorite small tools,

some other tools are there, Binoculars are

available too. Spring is really coming!

Submitted by: MG Intern Jim Persels

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Just a quick reminder that if you have signed up for a trip to Longwood Gardens on Thursday, April 14th, 2011.

The Bus will be leaving the route 404/route 50 park & ride promptly at 7: 15 am and returning at 5:30 pm.

Adkins Arboretum: Saturday, April 16th: Designing Extraordinary

Mixed Plantings from 1-2 p.m. Cost: $15 mem-bers, $20 non members

Friday, April 22 & Friday, April 29th: Designing a Native Forest from 10am to 2:30pm. Cost: $85 members, $110 non members

Monday, April 25th: Founding Gardeners Lunch & Lecture from noon to 2:30 pm. Cost: $35 members, $40 non members

Thursday, April 28th: Ecology of the Forest in Spring from 1 to 3 pm. Cost: $15 member, $20 non members

Please Call 410-634-2878 or visit http://www.adkinsarboretum.org to register for classes

Longwood Gardens

Saturday, April 9th: Performance Pruning-Shrubs from 9:30 to 12:30pm. Cost: $45 member, $50 non member

Thursday, April 14th: Dividing & Transplanting Herbaceous Perennials from 6 to 9 pm. Cost: $45 member, $50 non member

Thursday, April 28th: Plant Propagation: A plan for Spring from 6 to 9pm. Cost: $45 member, $50 non member

To register visit www.longwoodlearning.org or call 610-388-5454

Educational Opportunities Volunteer Opportunities

Chestertown Plant Clinic: This year the Chestertown Plant Clinic at Fountain Park will start on Saturday, May 14th (8am to 12pm) and will run every other Saturday until mid September. If you are interested in signing up please contact Sabine Harvey at greenbien@hotmail.com. Here are the Dates:

Saturday, April 30th from 8am to 12pm Saturday, May 14th from 8am to 12pm. Saturday, May 28th from 10am to 3pm (Tea Party Day) Saturday, June 11th from 8am to 12pm Saturday, June 25th from 8am to 12pm Saturday, July 9th from 8am to 12pm Saturday, July 23rd from 8am to 12pm Saturday, August 13th from 8am to 12pm Saturday, August 27th from 8am to 12pm Saturday, September 10th from 8am to 12pm Saturday, September 24th from 8am to 12pm

Upcoming Meetings and Trips

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Sat. April 9th: Bay-Wise Friendly Lawn

Care, Centreville Library 10am to 2pm

Mon. April 11th: Garden Affair Meeting

at Extension Office 9am

Tue. April 12th: GIEI-Chestertown

Extension Office 7 to 8pm

Wed. April 13th: GIEI-Centreville

Library & Stevensville Library 6:30 to

7:30pm (see page 8)

Thur. April 14th: Longwood Gardens

Trip (see page 11)

Sat. April 16th: Adkins Plant Sale booth

9am to 1pm

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4 5 MG State Coor-

dinators Mtg–

HGIC 10am-2 pm

6 7 Butterfly Garden

ENWR Maintenance

9am (see page 10)

8 9 Bay-Wise

Friendly Lawn

Care Centreville

Library 10am–

12pm

11 Garden Affair

Mtg at Extension

Office 9am

12 Grow It Eat

It—Chestertown

Extension Office

7pm-8pm

13 Grow It Eat It–

Stevensville & Cen-

treville 6:30pm-

7:30pm

14 Longwood Gardens

Trip

Grow It Eat It-

Sudlersville 6:30pm-

7:30pm

15 16 Adkins Plant

Sale-MG Booth

9am to 1pm

18 Newsletter &

MG Hours Due

19 20 MG Monthly Mtg

– Pollinators,

9:30am-11:30am at

WREC– Bay-Wise

Meeting 11:30am

21 Demo Garden work-

Millstream (See page

10) & Butterfly Garden

ENWR Maintenance

9am (see page 10)

22

Extension

Office

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23 Earth Day

Chestertown

25 26 27 Rainbarrel talk–

Centreville Fire

Dept 5:30pm

28 Butterfly Garden –

ENWR Maintenance

9am (see page 10)

29 30 Plant Clinic

Chestertown

Farmers Market

8am to 12pm

April 2011

Mon. April 18th: Newsletter Submissions &

MG hours Due

Wed. April 20th: MG Monthly Meeting (see

page 3)

Thur. April 21st: Demo Garden Maintenance-

Millstream (See Page 10) & Butterfly Garden at

ENWR (See Page 10)

Fri. April 22nd: Extension Office Closed

Wed. April 27th: Bay-Wise Booth at CRC rain

barrel sale, Centreville Fire Dept. 5:30 to

7:30pm

Sat. April 30th: Plant Clinic

Chestertown Farmers Market

8am to 12pm

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University of Maryland Extension

Queen Anne’s County

505 Railroad Ave.

Suite 4

Centreville, MD 21617

Vision Statement: A healthier world through environmental stewardship

Master Gardener Coordinator,

Queen Anne’s County

QACMG Website:

http://queenannes.umd.edu/QACMG/

index.cfm

University of Maryland Extension

505 Railroad Avenue, Suite 4

Centreville MD, 21617

Phone: (410) 758-0166

Fax: (410) 758-3687

http://queenannes.umd.edu/

May Newsletter Deadline:

Monday, April 18th

Send submissions to Rachel:

rmelvin1@umd.edu

It is the policy of the University of Maryland and University of Maryland Extension, that no person shall be

subjected to discrimination on the grounds of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital or parental status, or disability. Equal opportunity employers and equal access programs.

Wow…. Almost

time for the

Garden Affair