Growing Groceries Classes
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start growing your own vegetables?
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classes on growing your own healthy food. Next class Nov. 18.
MGFKC Newsletters
The KCMG Newsletters
Find news and articles of interest
about Master Gardeners in King County…
- The Foundation Connection
– the monthly e-newsletter - ¡¡Heads Up!!
– from the KCMG Diagnostics Lab
Find back issues of all these newsletters
Outstanding Master Gardeners
Who is deserving of recognition as a
King County Master Gardener?
See the 2020 Outstanding
Master Gardeners and other
honorees.
Continue Education
Learning happens in many ways.
Find details about classes here.
Check out the online CE webinars.
Ask-a-MG
You may now “Ask a Master Gardener” every day by email.
Bring or send your questions & share images and we can help.
Send emails, photos to ask-a-mastergardener@live.com
Find details about the online access and for sending messages and photos.
MGFKC Newsletter
MGFKC Newsletter – The Foundation Connection
Read all about what’s of interest in the November-December 2020 issue!
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- 2020 MG Annual Meeting and Recognition Event by MG Marty Byrne
- Get Ready for Recertification by Mary Watts, Program Coordinator. Enter your hours, reapply and, new this year, background check for all.
- News from the Board: Meet Board Member Amy Lee
- Why are you a Master Gardener? by MG Penny Kriese
- Ask A Master Gardener Any Day: the 2020 Email Clinic by MG Penny Kriese
- Foodies in the Garden: State Fair-Worthy? A tomato from Gia’s garden
- 2021 Northwest Flower and Garden Festival Canceled
- Miller Library Selection: Greenwood: A novel by Michael Christie
- Continuing Education Opportunities
- Online Learning Opportunities
- What’s Happening News & Updates
- 2020 MG Annual Meeting and Recognition Event by MG Marty Byrne
…more …
This newsletter is sent monthly to King County Master Gardeners. Look for it in your email. Miss a past issue? Find it here.
WSU Ext Offers Home Horticulture Training
Learn to be a better home gardener and steward of the environment this winter with Washington State University Extension’s new online Home Horticulture Training program. Training is open to Washington state residents 18 years of age and older. No gardening experience is needed.
This training focuses on a wide range of horticulture topics taught online by WSU faculty, staff, Master Gardeners, and other regional experts on Saturday mornings from 9 a.m. to noon starting Jan. 9 and continuing weekly through Apr. 24. See the FAQ, Syllabus and the Topics and Schedule for more information.
Those wishing to earn a Certificate of Completion will need to participate in weekly online quizzes, a final, and attend most classes. Homework is expected to average 3-5 hours a week. Completion of this course does not lead to becoming a Master Gardener. If you are interested in becoming a Master Gardener, please consider waiting until our next regular WSU Master Gardener King County Training planned for Winter 2022.
Master Gardeners, you can help promote this online opportunity to meet the increased demand for gardening education. Here is a flyer (for print or to post) to publicize this training to your local community.
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Heads UP!
Newsletter of the Master Gardener King County Diagnostic Lab
Read in the September-October 2020 issue:
- Ready, Set, Harvest!
- Fall Turf Care
- Weather Station: Wildfire smoke helps plants?
- Nerd’s Corner: Daphne bholua
- The Birdie Did It!
- Another Trouble-Making Sawfly
- Fall for Fall Planting
- Autumn Pruning for Woody Plants — Don’t!!
- Raspberries: The Simply Wonderful Fruit
- Twigga Mortis: When things go awry in the veggie patch…
- Useful Web Sources!
This newsletter is sent monthly to King County Master Gardeners during the active garden months from March to October. Look for the current issue in your email.
Miss a past issue? Find it here.
Touch Base with Your Tillandsias
You don’t have to strike out with Tillandsias. These epiphytes stand out in many shapes, sizes and psychedelic colors. My local nursery tells me they are a big favorite of the people living in all the new developments in the area because they can grow indoors so easily. DispIay them creatively: glue a cluster of them to a piece of wood or a single one onto a small piece of driftwood, pop one in a teacup or hang them in various houseplants.
The best location to keep them is in a room with bright, filtered light. I had a cluster of them for many years playing hardball and refusing to bloom. I started experimenting with putting a small one outside in the summer hanging on a nail on my east-facing front porch. It received some early morning sun (on the days the sun came out.) Otherwise, it just got a good dose of bright light.
Read the full article by Wendy Lagozzino as published in the December 2014 The Dirt, MGF newsletter
