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APRIL 2019 VOLUMNE 20, ISSUE 4 Queen Anne’s County Master Gardener Newsletter The Watering Can INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Plant Sale 1 Coordinators Corner 2 Coordinators Corner Continued 3 Volunteer Man- agement System 3 Container Gar- dening 4 Bay-Wise 5 Demo Garden 6 Plant Sale 7-8 Ask a MG Plant Clinic 9 Volunteer Opportunities 10 Special Events 11 Continuing Education 12 MG Meetings 13 Basic Training 13 Calendars 14-15 QAC MG Annual Plant Sale! May 11, 8:30-11:30 am, QAC Extension Office The plant sale is our largest group volunteer acvity of the year! It is the only event that raises funds to help offset the cost of our educaonal programs and acvies. Please sign up, donate plants, green ele- phant items, consider baking, or join us in preparaon for the sale. There are many volunteer opportunies the morning of the plant sale; please go to signup.com and add your name to a job. We have started hundreds of vegetable and flower plants in the greenhouse. We will sell them for $1 each! We are growing the to- mato variees that were selected as the winnersat the 2018 Tomato Tasng Event in Chestertown along with a few other fa- vorites. What a great opportunity to start a garden with thriving plants at a low cost. Tell all your friends and neighbors. Get the word out! The morning of the Plant Sale is a me for gathering together with the community to share our knowledge and experience with gardens, naves, vegetables, Bay-Wise, pol- linators, IPM and more. The Plant Clinic Ask a Master Gardenerbooth will be set up with volunteers ready to answer ques- ons. Thank you to all our MGs who grow, divide, pot and bring plants to the sale every year. Your donaons showcase some of the na- ve variees that MGs love to promote in home gardens. Louise Shearer connues to provide her help in creang the won- derful plant labels. Please send infor- maon for specific labels to Lee or Louise ([email protected] or shibshear- [email protected]) as soon as you can. We will be pung together packets of labels April 4 th at 10:00 at the extension office. Please come and join us. Cleaning out your garden shed? Do you have pots, tools, seeds, garden gnomes? Gardening books that are gathering dust? The plant sale is the perfect opportunity to donate your items. The Green Ele- phanttable will be back under the direc- on of Sue Goward. All donaons are welcome. Please drop off your items at the extension office or bring them with you the morning of the sale. Bake Sale: The Bee and Flower cookies will be back along with bisco. Can you bake? Please contact Sharloe Beecher to help out: [email protected], 443 -480-8333. Plant donaons can be dropped off any- me on Friday May 10 th . If you plan to bring plants the morning of the event, or need to drop them off earlier in the week, please call Rachel (She will be back in May) or Lee to make arrangements. We are counng on everyone to make this a success year aſter year!

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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 :

Plant Sale 1

Coordinators

Corner 2

Coordinators

Corner Continued 3

Volunteer Man-

agement System 3

Container Gar-

dening 4

Bay-Wise 5

Demo Garden 6

Plant Sale 7-8

Ask a MG Plant

Clinic 9

Volunteer

Opportunities 10

Special Events 11

Continuing

Education 12

MG Meetings 13

Basic Training 13

Calendars 14-15

QAC MG Annual Plant Sale! May 11, 8:30-11:30 am, QAC Extension Office

The plant sale is our largest group volunteer activity of the year! It is the only event that raises funds to help offset the cost of our educational programs and activities. Please sign up, donate plants, green ele-phant items, consider baking, or join us in preparation for the sale. There are many volunteer opportunities the morning of the plant sale; please go to signup.com and add your name to a job. We have started hundreds of vegetable and flower plants in the greenhouse. We will sell them for $1 each! We are growing the to-mato varieties that were selected as the “winners” at the 2018 Tomato Tasting Event in Chestertown along with a few other fa-vorites. What a great opportunity to start a garden with thriving plants at a low cost. Tell all your friends and neighbors. Get the word out!

The morning of the Plant Sale is a time for gathering together with the community to share our knowledge and experience with gardens, natives, vegetables, Bay-Wise, pol-linators, IPM and more. The Plant Clinic “Ask a Master Gardener” booth will be set up with volunteers ready to answer ques-tions.

Thank you to all our MG’s who grow, divide, pot and bring plants to the sale every year. Your donations showcase some of the na-tive varieties that MG’s love to promote in

home gardens. Louise Shearer continues to provide her help in creating the won-derful plant labels. Please send infor-mation for specific labels to Lee or Louise ([email protected] or [email protected]) as soon as you can. We will be putting together packets of labels April 4th at 10:00 at the extension office. Please come and join us. Cleaning out your garden shed? Do you have pots, tools, seeds, garden gnomes? Gardening books that are gathering dust? The plant sale is the perfect opportunity to donate your items. The “Green Ele-phant” table will be back under the direc-tion of Sue Goward. All donations are welcome. Please drop off your items at the extension office or bring them with you the morning of the sale.

Bake Sale: The Bee and Flower cookies will be back along with biscotti. Can you bake? Please contact Sharlotte Beecher to help out: [email protected], 443-480-8333.

Plant donations can be dropped off any-time on Friday May 10th. If you plan to bring plants the morning of the event, or need to drop them off earlier in the week, please call Rachel (She will be back in May) or Lee to make arrangements.

We are counting on everyone to make this a success year after year!

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Ticks Speaker: Emily Zobel

Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Monthly MG Meeting, 9:30 am

Emily Zobel is the Agriculture extension agent for Dorchester County. She received her B.S. in Ecology and M.S. in Entomology from the University of Maryland College Park. Prior to her current position, she worked as a field technician for the UMD, Entomology department conducting research on pesticides usage and sustainable agriculture prac-tices.

Queen Anne's County Government Building, 110 Vincit St., Centreville, Meeting Room 1

While Rachel is out on maternity leave here is a list of people who will be running the “show.”

Office Support: Shelia Shorter [email protected]

Lee Ann Schnappinger Bridgman [email protected] Lee is only part-time so please be patient if she doesn’t get back to you immediately.

Office phone number: 410-758-0166

Shelia and Lee will provide office support to the Master Gardener’s while I am on leave. They will help with copies, scheduling meetings at the office for committees, and other things as needed. Please make sure that you give them ample notice before stopping in if you need help with things.

Newsletter:

Sabine Harvey Phone: 410-778-1661 Email: [email protected]

Deadline for newsletter submissions is the 23rd of every month

Seed Swap (Kent Island Library in Stevensville)

Karen Wimsatt (Lead) Email: [email protected] Date: March 16th

Plant Sale Chairs Cathy Tengwell [email protected] and Laura Klingler cleri-

[email protected] Greenhouse lead Jim Mullikin (MG) [email protected] and Danny

Levan (office staff) Monthly Meetings-Office staff-Lee & Shelia

MG support-Jim Persels [email protected]

MG Basic Training

MONTHLY MEETING

Continued on Page 3

COORDINATOR’S CORNER

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QAC/Kent-Shelia, Lee, and Sabine

Talbot-Mikaela Boley [email protected] Dorchester-Emily Zobel [email protected]

Hostess Sign up: http://signup.com/go/tOzSxjz Social Media-Sabine Harvey [email protected] and Denise Maleug [email protected] Committee Contacts: Bay-Wise

Centreville North-Debbie Pusey [email protected]

Kent Island-Cathy Tengwell [email protected] Ask A Master Gardener

KI-Liz Hammond [email protected] & Deane Horowitz [email protected]

Chestertown-Sabine Harvey [email protected] Mentoring Jim Persels (Lead) [email protected]

Galilee Garden Larry Lorenz [email protected] & Cathay Miller [email protected] Advisory Committee

Jim Persels [email protected] Debbie Pusey [email protected]

Jack Doub [email protected] Susan Seth [email protected]

Larry Lorenz [email protected] Sabine Harvey [email protected]

All MG volunteer activities have been added to http://signup.com/go/QdpYbQP Please use this link to sign up for the Plant Sale, helping in the greenhouse, the seed swap, and the plant clinic.

MG Hours: Sabine and Pat Bowell will still have access to approve hours.

Recording MG Hours-The New System

In early January the State MG Program launched our new MG Volunteer Manage-ment System (VMS) replacing the Online Tracking System (OTS) for recording volun-teer hours. For more information on record-ing and reporting volunteer data go to: http://extension.umd.edu/mg/program-management/tracking-volunteer-hours Once you become familiar with the functions of the new system, we hope that you will find the experience to be much more user friendly and offer new opportunities to re-

port and view your volunteer records. Here’s another great link to walk you through the process: https://myemail.constantcontact.com/UME-Master-Gardener-Program---Learn-About-Our-New-Volunteer-Management-System--VMS-.html?soid=1127069117597&aid=RPN6sNwNgw8 As always if you have questions or concerns please give Rachel or Sabine a call.

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2019 Bay-Wise Meeting Schedule

Tuesday, May 21st at 1:30 PM at the Centreville Extension Office

Tuesday, July 16that 1:30 PM at the Centreville Extension Office

Tuesday, September 17th at 1:30 PM at the Centreville Extension Office

2019 BAY-WISE MEETINGS Submitted by: MG Debbie Pusey

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

The Bay-Wise Committee met on Tuesday, March 19th. Topics of discussion includ-ed information for the Bay-Wise folders, articles for seasonal press releases and the KI Library Seed Swap. Thank you to Cathy Tengwall and Barbara Graham for handling the Bay-Wise exhibit there; 14 people signed up for Bay-Wise visits! Cathy, Margaret and Debbie will divide these up for contacting. In addition, Joyce Anderson will be the lead for any requests for Symphony Village.

Our first Bay-Wise visit of the season is scheduled for Tuesday, March 26th. We are in the process of organizing and contacting the list of homeowners who have al-ready signed up.

There were several people at the Seed Swap who expressed interest in rain gar-dens. We will look into developing a list of online resources including rain garden information to be added to the Bay-Wise folder given to homeowners. We also hope to have a press release article on rain gardens this spring.

One of our goals this year is to certify as many MG’s as possible. We will have a sign-up sheet at our regular monthly meetings for anyone who is interested. We would like to be able to do 2 to 3 a month. Again, this is not a beauty contest for your yard and we don’t care about how many weeds you have!

Our next meeting will be Tuesday, May 21st at 1:30pm at the Extension office. All are welcome to attend.

EDU Series at Galilee Garden

Join the QAC MG’s at Galilee Garden at Harbor View on the first Thursday of the month to learn about:

Container Gardening-April 4th at 7 PM All classes are free and open to the public. Galilee Gar-den at Harbor View, 1934 Harbor Drive Chester, Mary-land

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DEMONSTRATION GARDEN UPDATE Submitted by: MG Debbie Pusey

Our first workday for the Centreville Library rain garden will be Thursday, April 18th, starting at 9:00am.

We usually work for 1 – 1 ½ hours – that’s our limit!

As of this writing, the rain garden looks pretty good. Heavy rains on Thursday, March 21st left the rain garden almost completely full of water. However, by Saturday, the garden was completely drained. Although the overflow pipe is again blocked by stones from the center path, the garden is still functioning as planned. By the time we have our first workday, we should see some good signs of growth

and recovery from winter.

The rain garden on Friday, March 22

Rain garden on Saturday, March 23

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Plant Sale-Save the Date

We’re gearing up for our Annual Plant Sale. Mark your calendars now

for our Annual Plant Sale on Saturday, May 11th.

Laura & Cathy will need all hands on deck to help during the winter/spring months to get ready for this event. There’s a lot to get done, if you’d like to help in the greenhouse http://signup.com/go/FgdjfCg or sign up for the day of http://

If you’d like to help in the greenhouse use this link http://signup.com/go/FgdjfCg

Green Elephant

As you look at your garden and think about spring, please think what you would like to give to the MG plant sale green elephant. We would like a variety of items with a garden theme. We were successful last year with

Greenhouse Help

Our work days for the greenhouse are as follows: Monday, April 1st from 9-11AM

Wednesday, April 3rd from 9-11AM

Monday, April 15th from 9-11AM Directions to the Greenhouse: Take 213 North out of Centreville towards Chestertown. At Northbrook turn on-

to Spaniards Neck Rd. Take Span-iards Neck Road for 4.l miles. Make a left onto Conquest Beach Road travel for about 2 miles. Go past the sign for Conquest Beach on your right. The greenhouse will be down on your left after the corn cribs.

signup.com/go/LpDQwwO. You will also be able to sign up at our month-ly meetings.

your help and hope you will help this year.

Any questions please contact Sue Goward, [email protected]

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Example of Plant Label

Common Name: Bronze fennel

Botanical Name: Foeniculum vulgare

Perennial

Size: 4-5’ spread to 12"

Sun: full sun

Soil: average

Bloom time: July-Aug

Color: Yellow

Native: No

Attracts: butterflies, host plant for

swallowtail butterfly caterpillar

Submitted by: MG Louise Shearer

Once you have decided what plants you will be donating to the plant sale, email the information to Rachel with the subject line: “plant labels.”

In the body of the email, please include following: Your name__________ The plant name __________ quantity______

Other helpful information to include would be basic: For perennial plants -common name, botanical name, height/size, sun/shade For annuals: herb/flower/vegetable, name, color/height

Labeling Plants

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

Plant Sale-Continued

If you’d like to help in the greenhouse use this link http://signup.com/go/FgdjfCg

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This is the perfect time of year to start thinking about all those seed catalogs. As most of us have cabin fever and are eager to get out in the garden, it seemed like a great idea to have the topic for the March plant clinic about “Starting from Seed.”

We had a display board featuring a “how-to” and “step-by-step” process for starting those seedlings with plenty of handouts and seed packets to give away. Deane brought a “soil block” maker which got some attention. This is an ingenious little device that com-presses the growing medium to form blocks that hold their shape, then you can start the seed in them and then transplant when ready. We gave out flyers about the upcoming Seed Swap at the Kent Island Library and Karen Wim-satt was with us to encourage those who stopped by to attend the seed

Ask a Master Gardener

Kent Island Farmers Market

Submitted by: MG Liz Hammond &

Deane Horowitz, KI Plant Clinic Chair

swap. In addition, we had the usual “Monthly Gardening Tips.” About 20 peo-ple stopped by to check out the display and chat with the master gardeners about starting gardens. Thanks also to the other MGs who helped out, Barbara Graham, Jackie Kelly, and Debbie Longhurst, and Carol Romano.

The next plant clinic will be Thursday, April 11, and in keeping with the upcom-ing growing season, we’ll have a “Grow It, Eat It” theme. Come join us if you can in April – it’s a great way to get those MG volunteer hours!

Liz Hammond [email protected] Deane Horowitz [email protected] We’ll be at Christ Church, Stevensville, 830 Romancoke Rd. Upcoming Plant Clinic Dates, 3:30-6:30pm April 11, May 9, June 13, July 11, August 8, September 12, October 10, November 14, December 12. To sign up for a particular day email Liz, come to an MG meeting or click on this link: http://signup.com/go/SyMwafK

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Vegetables Plant a late crop of basil, cilantro,

and dill. Plant a last crop of snap beans the

first week of August. Plant cool season crops, including

spinach, lettuce, carrots, beets, broccoli, cauliflower, Chinese cab-bage, turnips, kale and mustard. Keep seedlings moist and mulched.

Order garlic, walking onions, and shallots for fall planting.

Harvest leaves of herbs before they flower. Pick individually and dry indoors, or hang the stems in a dry, semi-shady room. Store dry leaves in air-tight jars. Fresh basil leaves freeze well in plastic bags that can be sealed.

Keep weeding and watering.

Lawn In dry periods grasses go dormant

but recover when rain returns. Newly seeded or sodded lawns may actually be dead and will need to be reseeded.

Mid-August through mid-October is the best time to start new lawns and renovate or overseed existing lawns. We recommend a turf-type tall fescue cultivar at a rate of 4 lbs. of seed per 1,000 sq. ft. of area for overseeding, or 8 lbs. per 1000 sq. ft. for new lawns.

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Volunteer Opportunities

Nature Club in Chestertown Jennie Lee (Soil Conservation), Beth Hill (4-H) and Sabine are running a Nature Club for 3rd-5th graders. Most students come from Gar-nett. The club meets every 1st and 3rd Mon-day of the month at the yellow building (Library in Chestertown), from 4 until about 5:15pm.

Please contact Sabine Harvey if you would like to help out on [email protected] or 410-778-1661.

Garden Program at Kent County Middle School Just like last year, we will be providing a pro-gram at Kent County Middle Schools on a number of Thursday mornings. We did this last year as well and it was pretty successful. The main idea is that we work in the garden, try to grow food and prepare/cook food as well. We will have about 20 students from grades 6-8. We meet every three weeks Time: 7:30-9:00am!!!!

Last year the students made a salad, sweet potato pancakes and tortillas from scratch; we dissected flowers and started seeds indoors; we made insect hotels and did a lot of work in the gar-den.

The dates are as follows: 3/21, 4/11, 5/2, 5/23

Please contact Sabine Harvey if you would be interested in helping out with one or more of these sessions. [email protected], 410-778-1661

Newsletter

Do you have a knack for writing? Sub-mitting an article to the newsletter is a great way to earn a few hours during the winter months. To submit an article email Rachel and Sabine

Plant Clinics, Fountain Park, Chestertown Saturday mornings, 8am—noon

We will have plant clinics in Chestertown on the following dates: April 20: Earth Day Event May 11 May 25: Tea Party Festival, 9am until 4pm. We will need lots of volunteers!! June 15 and 19 July 13 and 27 August 10 and 24 September 7 If you are interested in volunteering, please con-tact Sabine Harvey, [email protected] or 410-778-1661

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The Talbot County Garden Club Spring Symposium, April 23, 2019

The event will be held at The Milestone in Easton. Tickets go on sale in January for $90 each, and include the program, lunch and the opportunity to shop with merchants. To purchase tickets, mail a check to the Talbot County Garden Club at P.O. Box 1524, Easton, MD 21601.

“We are looking forward to what promises to be one of our best symposiums yet,” said Symposium Chairwoman, Kim Eckart. “This is our major fundraiser for 2019 and will fund our community service projects throughout Talbot County.”

The speakers include: Award-winning gardener and author Steph-anie Cohen, also know as the Perennial Di-va. Cohen will present a vibrant talk on “New and Underused Perennials.” She has taught courses at Temple University and is a contributing editor for Fine Gardening. Award-winning gardener, floral designer and owner of Love ‘n Fresh Flowers, Jennie Love. Love ‘n Fresh is a sustainably man-aged urban flower farm and design studio in Philadelphia. Love trained as both a horti-culturist and floral designer at Longwood Gardens, and was named as one of the top 62 floral designers in the nation by Martha Stewart Wedding’s. Love will create designs from flowers picked from Love ‘n Fresh gar-dens. And, back by popular demand, four very tal-ented members of the Talbot County Gar-den Club will dazzle attendees with their floral designs.

Maryland House & Garden Pilgrimage

QA County, May 4, 2019

The Maryland House and Garden Pilgrim-age (MHGP), a non-profit organization, is dedi-cated to the preservation and restoration of architecturally significant properties in the State of Maryland. The Pilgrimage has re-mained constant with this purpose since its formation in 1930. Pilgrims are given the op-portunity to visit and tour unique houses and gardens spread out across the state of Mary-land. The Spring 2019 tours will take place in Charles County, Queen Anne’s County, Balti-more City, Baltimore County, and Carroll Coun-ty. The first site in Queen Anne’s County is the Historic Stoopley-Gibson Manor and proceeds will benefit historic preservation efforts in the County.

IN QUEEN ANNE’S COUNTY Pilgrims will have the opportunity to tour

eight historic properties including 17th and 18th century privately-owned homes and other venues in the Kent Island, Queens-town, and Centerville areas. This unique day will include:

Beautiful waterfront vistas, century-old trees and calming outdoor spaces;

Preserved ice and meat houses, tenant homes, and slave quarters;

Revolutionary and Civil War history brought to live;

Historic schools established to ensure fair access to education;

Commerce and its role in everyday life.

INFORMATION & TICKETS: 443-223-1699 or 410-758-2071 or email: [email protected]. https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/4034216

Special Events

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Continuing Education

Complementing the Landscape in Architectural De-sign

Ladew Gardens

3-Apr $25.00-$35.00

https://www.ladewgardens.com/EDUCATION/Adult-Education/Lecture-Series

Speaker: Peter Ratcliffe

Turf to Habitat - Part 2: Imple-menting Your Own Wildlife Habi-tat Plan

Jug Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

6-Apr Free

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/month/2019/4/6?

eid=NDd0bHQ4bDM5Z28wZ2YybDFoZzNzcjcwZHYgZnM2YmZoOTR2N3JsMzhzaD

cwbHI0bDFxZGNAZw&ctz=America/

Designing with Natives

Adkins Arboretum

7-Apr $15.00 - $20.00

https://adkins.donorshops.com/product/DESIGNWITHNATIVES/designing-with-natives-april-7

Speaker: Chris Pax

Awaken Your Gardens

Ladew Gardens

10-Apr $25.00 - $35.00

https://www.ladewgardens.com/EDUCATION/Adult-Education/Lecture-Series

Speaker: Taffy Litz

Nursery and Plant Care Training with Herring Run Nursery

Master Gardener State Of-fice

17-Apr Free https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nursery-and-plant-care-training-with-herring-run-nursery-tickets-58670739762

Fool Proof Plants for Beginning Gar-deners

Mt. Cuba Center

17-Apr $25.00 https://education.mtcubacenter.org/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=192GAR204A

10% discount with code MGSPR19

Spring Ephemer-als and Pollinators

Adkins Arboretum

20-Apr $25.00 https://adkins.donorshops.com/product/SWAPRIL2019/spring-ephemerals-pollinators-soup-n-walk-april-20

Soup 'n Walk event- lunch included in cost of registration

Hummingbirds: Dynamic Aviators

Mt. Cuba Center

25-Apr $29.00 https://education.mtcubacenter.org/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=192CON133

10% discount with code MGSPR19

Revealing the Mysteries of Suc-cessful Perennial Gardening

Patuxent Nursery

27-Apr Free

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dr-allan-armitage-revealing-the-mysteries-of-successful-perennial-gardening-tickets-58743766186?aff=affiliate1

Speaker: Dr. Allan Armitage

Native Plants: Planting and Care

Adkins Arboretum

5-May $15.00 - $20.00

https://adkins.donorshops.com/product/PLANTINGANDCARE/native-plants-planting-care-may-5

Turf to Habitat - Part 3: Maintain-ing Your Wildlife Habitat

Jug Bay Wildlife Sanctuary

11-May Free

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/r/month/2019/5/11?eid=NzhkYWRrdXE1Mmt0MnFlNmd0MDJuN2NyaDcgZnM2YmZoOTR2N3JsMzhzaDcwbHI0bDFxZGNAZw&ctz=America/New_York&sf=true

Speaker: Chris Pax

Transform Your Yard from Basic to Beautiful

Mt. Cuba Center

16-May $29.00 https://education.mtcubacenter.org/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=192GAR138

10% discount with code MGSPR19

Bay-Friendly Lawn Care Prac-tices

US Na-tional Ar-boretum

18-May https://marylandgrows.umd.edu/2019/03/27/spring-lawn-care-tips-bay-friendly-lawn-workshop/

Speaker: Geoff Rine-hart,Turfgrass Man-agement, Institute of Applied Agriculture, UME

Grow a Living Bird Feeder

Mt. Cuba Center

29-May $29.00 https://education.mtcubacenter.org/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=192GAR273

10% discount with code MGSPR19

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Meeting Date Topic Time Place

Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Ticks, Emily Zobel, UME-Dorchester County

9:30-11:30

QA's County Government Building, 110 Vincit St. Centreville, Meeting Room 1

Thursday, May 15, 2019 Hazardous Household Products, Beverly Jackey, FCS Educator, UME-Cecil, Kent, and QA's

9:30-11:30

QA's County Government Building, 110 Vincit St. Centreville, Meeting Room 1

Wednesday, June 12, 2019 Picnic Time: TBD

Liz & Bob Hammonds 215 Thomas Rd Centreville, MD 21617

Tuesday, July 16, 2019 Garden CSI, Mikaela Boley, UME-Talbot County

5:30-7:30 Centreville Library 121 S. Commerce St.

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

“Pollinators,” Kerry Wixted, Maryland Department of Nat-ural Resources

5:30-7:30 Place TBD

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 Native Tree ID, Agnes Kedmenecz, UME Woodland Stewards Educator

9:30-11:30

Wye Research and Education Center

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Bird friendly gardening with Native Plants, Susie Creamer, Patterson Park Audubon

9:30-11:30

QA's County Government Building, 110 Vincit St. Centreville, Meeting Room 1

December-Date TBD

2019 MG Meetings

Date Time Topic Speaker

Thursday, Apr 4th 5:30- 8:30pm Grow It, Eat It/Bay-Wise/Plant Clinics Sabine Harvey; Mikaela, Emily, Carol Jelich (MG)

Saturday, Apr 6th 9 am -12 Basic Tree I.D Agnes K.

Thursday, Apr 11th 5:30- 8:30pm Snow Day

Saturday, Apr 13th 9 am -12 Online Volunteer Log & Work on Projects

Coordinators

Back up snow day

Thursday, Apr 18th 5:30- 8:30pm Jeopardy & Study Day

Saturday, Apr 20th No class- Easter Weekend

Thursday, Apr 25th 5:30- 8:30pm EXAM

Saturday, Apr 27th 9 am -12 Group Presentations

MG INTERN TRAINING SPEAKER SCHEDULE

P A G E 1 3 V O L U M N E 2 0 , I S S U E 4

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April 2019 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 Green-

house for plant sale 9AM

2 3 Green-

house for plant sale 9AM

4 Master

Gardener Train-ing 5:30-8:30 Container Gar-dening, 7pm, Galilee

5 6 Master Gar-

dener Training 9-noon

7 8 9 10 11Kent Is-

land Plant Clinic 3:30-6:30 P.M. Snow day: Mas-ter Gardener Training 5:30-8:30 P.M.

12 13 Master

Gardener Training 9-noon

14 15 Green-

house for plant sale 9AM

16 17 Master

Gardener Meeting 9:30-11:30 A.M

18 Demo

Garden Mainte-nance, 9am. Master Gardener Train-ing 5:30-8:30

19 20 Plant

clinic at Earth Day Event, Chestertown, 8am—noon

21 22 23 24 25 Master

Gardener Train-ing 5:30-8:30 P.M. EXAM

26 27 Master

Gardener Training 9-noon. Group Presentations

28 29

Spring

into

Spring

30

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May 2019 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8 9 Kent Is-

land Plant Clin-ic 3:30-6:30 P.M.

10 Drop off

plants for plant sale

11

PLANT

SALE!

12 13 14 15 Master

Gardener Meeting 9:30-11:30 A.M

16 17 18

19 20 21Bay-Wise

meeting, 1:30 PM, Centre-ville Extension Office

22 23 24 25Plant

Clinic at

Tea Par-

ty Festi-

26 27 28 29 30 31

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Queen Anne’s County

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Vision Statement: A healthier world through environmental stewardship

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gardening

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Phone: (410) 758-0166

May Newsletter Submission

due on

April 23rd