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August
2007 Unit Reports |
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AMHERST,
( Deborah Straw |
Our School Programs in five of We continue to staff the phone in the office to assist our Extension Agent Don Davis with horticulture questions. We also staff a booth at the Community Center every Saturday morning. Website – www.hcmga.com |
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(MGs of Vivian Ballard |
Master Gardeners of Northern Virginia (MGNV) has had three
programs for its members this summer.
In June we toured the Smithsonian Institution greenhouses, as well as their
tufa and gravel gardens. July featured
a trip to Our plant clinics and demonstration gardens have been busy. Many of our members volunteered at the Arlington County Fair. Our next general meeting will be in September at the home of our president, Teddye Clayton, and feature a tour of her own garden. Elaine Woods, a long time Master Gardener who was very
active in the 1980's and early 1990's died on Sunday August 12. She was a Charter Member of MGNV, did much
of the typing and formatting of the first state MG manual, and helped
organize the first ever international Master Gardener conference in website: www.mgnv.org |
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Patty Gamache |
Bedford MG's in conjunction with the VCE, Kiwanis Club,
and the D-Day memorial administrators have put together a vegetable
garden for low income families. Children were brought to the site every
Friday as BMG's taught classes on seed germination, plant buying, preparing
the soil, planting, beneficial insects and not so beneficial insects, birds
and their habits, making Blue Bird Houses and placing them around the
garden, container gardening and making stepping stones to place
permanently in the area. All produce from the garden has gone to the
children and their families. It has been a most rewarding program for
BMG's and we hope to expand on the program next year. |
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CARROLL, GRAYSON and city of (MGs of the Charlie Whittle |
Heirloom vegetable garden at Matthews Historic Farm hosted
a successful open house July10. Memorial garden at |
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Pinky Derieux |
We held our annual plant sale in May and netted alittle over $5,000. Once again Chesapeake MGs participated in our annual Jubilee in May. In June we were afforded a special treat by having our picnic at the home of Janet Hong, a local daylily grower. Also in June we attended a picnic with To date our plant a row for the hungry program has
collected 3842 pounds of food which supplies food to 552 individuals. This
year for the first time a help desk has been set up at our plant a row drop-off
site to aid homeowners who have |
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Lynn Foote |
The Chesterfield County Master Gardeners continue
to answer busy phones on a daily basis. The pilot program Gardening
for New Residents accepted 49 applications and is in the process of
completing all the assessments. The
feedback from the clients has been very positive so far. The Grass Roots
program for 2008 has 30 applications already and will continue to put people
on a waiting list. The MG will be busy with
seminars this fall; the |
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George Graine |
Two continuing education programs were made available to all Fairfax MGs this summer. The first was a walk in the garden of a full service garden center. Our Extension Agent and “Training Officer” (a former Fairfax Extension Agent) led the group in a hands-on review process designed to identify plants and discuss any problems associated with these plants. This effort was designed to provide support to plant clinicians and those who work the “help line.” A second program dubbed “Under the Microscope” was
designed to check out problems that ordinarily could not be seen with the
naked eye. We also had an opportunity
to test a new scope that has the ability to project the field of view on a
large movie screen. www.fairfaxmastergardeners.org |
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FAIRFAX - Green Spring Unit Joan Richards |
Green Spring Master Gardeners will gather August 16 for
their semi-annual social and awards event at This site will also be the location for the fall Basic
Gardening Series workshops taught by Green Spring master gardeners September
14 through October 26. Several of the
classes will be taught in Spanish. An ongoing project of Green Spring master gardeners is
caring for the |
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FLUVANNA Jo Anne Henry |
The major work of the summer has been planting and managing the Every Wednesday morning, Master Gardeners staff the Horticultural Help
Desk and an information booth has been established at the Tuesday afternoon
Farmer’s Market. Many of the Master Gardeners work on keeping the public and
garden areas of |
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(Southside MGs) Meredith Bowman |
The |
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Christy Brennan |
Hanover Master Gardeners were well represented at the Ashland
Strawberry Faire in June and the Hanover Tomato Festival in July, two large
festivals in |
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Anne Odle |
JCC/Williamsburg MGs held their 6th Annual Super Turf Saturday at
Lafayette H.S. August 18th and featured VATech turf team. Williamsburg Farmers' Market M.G. booth featured Therapeutic Gardening
at Morningside, Patriots Colony, Methodist Respite, and We are Sustained Excellence for
Children and Youth Education Award winners for the Brag competition at the
20th annual |
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LOUDOUN Dave Hellums |
The Loudoun County Master Gardeners have had an extremely
busy two months Our most challenging adventure for the summer is
certainly our So far this year, we have harvested OVER 500 LBS of
produce, which is donated to "Loudoun Interfaith
Relief". We participated in the Loudoun County Fair with our
Master Gardener Booth giving advice and contact information. To fund our large Website – www.loudouncountymastergardeners.org. |
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MONTGOMERY, FLOYD,
PULASKI, and GILES ( Gwen Ewing |
We held a Silent Auction for our own Association members during the
May potluck and graduation exercise for our interns and raised
$1240.00. This money will support our School Grant Program. Plant
clinics are on going, looking forward to the county fair educational
activities in Master Gardeners have been donating paperback books to ship
overseas to the soldiers, the site is www.operationpaperback.org
Our website is http://www.civic.bev.net/nrvmga/
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Don Snipes |
Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake Master Gardeners
sponsor a lecture series for homeowners each spring, This year the
Norfolk Botanical Garden became a partner in this endeavor and the lecture
series was the most successful to date. We will continue this project
in 2008 with planning starting this September. website - www.nmgv.org |
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NORTHUMBERLAND,
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The Northern Neck Master Gardeners finished up their SUMS program in
June by having the school children give their parents a tour of their garden
and make snacks from the garden products. The SUMS human nutrition
project received a First Place Honor at MG College thus sweeping all five
categories over the years. On August 11, over 90 people attended a NNMG-sponsored program of
"Beautiful Lawn--Healthy Bay". This was the second in a
series of lectures promoting good lawn practices that do not cause harm
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ROANOKE, BOTETOURT, CRAIG and city of ROANOKE Kathryn Debnar |
As everyone knows, we have had record breaking hot days across the
Commonwealth. Although we tend to check our gardens first, please do
not forget the trees. A slow steady drink, about two feet from the
trunk will do wonders for the tree, and help it retain its leaves. |
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ROCKBRIDGE, (Rockbridge Area
MGs) Ted Jenks |
On May 12 our annual plant sale and clinic took place and, once again,
was very successful with 2000 plants sold, and earning over $4500 for our
organization. Once again RAMGA and the Rockbridge Regional Fair sponsored the
ever-popular Horticulture Show. RAMGA’s own JoEllen Bunton won both the Award of Merit
for best perennial in the show and the Sweepstakes Award. Our Maureen Becker
won the Arboreal Award and our Debbie Lugar tied with JoEllen for the Sweepstakes
Award. |
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Paul Campbell |
VBMGs sponsored two week long Junior Master Gardener Summer Day
Camps for children at the Adam Thoroughgood House in July. VBMGs participated
in a Regional Water Steward class at the Hampton Roads Agricultural Research
and Extension Center (HRAREC) and graduated 9 new Water Stewards.
Additionally, we installed a Planning continues for the 8th
Annual Community Gardening Festival which will be conducted at the HRAREC on
Saturday 15 September. website - www.vbmg.org |
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