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Master Gardeners of Greene County
January Newsletter
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Table of Contents for January 2021
Hotline is Open on Thursdays
Vegetable Gardening in the Ozarks Classes
Great Plains Growers Conference
Missouri Woodland Steward Series
MDC: Wild Edibles and Game Recipes
Master Gardener Training
VERY INVASIVE: Bush Honeysuckle
Interested in Propagation for Monarchs?
Planning your Garden for 2021?
Garden Links
Get Your Soil Tested Soon
Previous Newsletter Link
Need a Speaker for One of Your Meetings or Groups?
Gardening Questions Phone Number
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The Master Gardener Greene County Hotline will be staffed only on Thursdays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. This will be to collect soil samples or if you need to go in for help with your gardening questions. Please call before coming in.
Feel free to contact us anytime with your questions by phone (417-874-2963), by email or on our website. Feel free to send pictures of your problems or questions via email. For more information check here.
Please leave a detailed message if calling or just sending an email.
In the meantime, if you need a faster answer to your important gardening question, use the MU Extension website and use the topic search box.
Wishing all a wonderful New Year!
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Vegetable Gardening in the Ozarks Classes
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Coming soon: in January, we kick off our new series “Vegetable Gardening in the Ozarks!" These classes will be held online, with more details to come. Our January class will help us plan for the upcoming season, and give us the opportunity to learn more about soil health. Interested?
Send an email to Moon, our Public Education Chair, to be put on the mailing list.
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Great Plains Growers Conference
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Feburary 12 - 13
Registration Now Open
Scroll down for conference times and speakers.
The 2021 conference will be virtual! Participate on your computer from the comfort of home. Join fruit, vegetable, and specialty crop growers from around the Midwest to learn more about production, business, and more from our best regional and national experts. This conference is organized by Extension professionals from five universities.
Early-bird online registration ends Thursday Dec 31, 2020.
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Missouri Woodland Steward Series
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Winter Webinar Series
January 12 thru February 16
MU Extension natural resources specialists are providing 6 sessions on various forestry and wildlife topics for landowners. For a complete listing of the 6 topics, dates, times, fees and to register visit here.
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Wild Edibles and Game Recipes
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Provided by the Missouri Dept. of Conservation just in time for post holiday cooking! You had fun hunting, catching or gathering your quarry (meat, nuts, seeds, fruit some vegetables and more) now have more fun cooking and eating it. Browse recipes for Missouri's wild game and other edibles here.
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Join Missouri Master Gardeners Mission of "Helping others learn to grow" New 2021 Classes Starting Online
Register by January 10 for online Missouri Master Gardener Core training to become a certified Master Gardener.
Fee is $200. The 14-week session begins Jan. 17, 2021.
Dr. David Trinklein teaches the course with MU Extension horticulture specialist Sarah Denkler. “Students work at their own pace within the confines of a course schedule,” Trinklein said.
Classes are delivered as a series of scripted and narrated video presentations. Topics include basic botany, soils and plant nutrition, vegetable gardening, fruit production, landscape design, woody ornamental plants, herbaceous ornamental plants, turf management, insect and disease management, and pesticide safety.
Those who successfully complete the core training and perform at least 30 hours of volunteer service qualify for MU Extension Master Gardener certification. Local Master Gardener coordinators help online trainees find volunteer opportunities to meet the service requirements.
Registration deadline for the spring online session is Jan. 10, 2021. For more program information and to register visit this page.
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Learn more about this VERY INVASIVE plant from Missouri Botanical Garden, 'Bush Honeysuckle Removal and Control' late fall is a great time for control since it still has red leaves. Read on here.
ALSO: Control from MDC here.
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Interested in Propagation for Monarchs?
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Information provided by Monarch Watch: Milkweeds can be propagated from seeds, cuttings, and, in some cases, from root divisions. This account will deal with storage, treatment and planting of milkweeds seeds and will briefly touch on propagation from cuttings. Read more here.
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Planning Your Garden 2021?
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Now is a great time to start planning your garden for the upcoming year. The catalogs are coming and we are having thoughts of juicy tomatoes and crunchy carrots.... Oh boy yum! Planting is still aways away. Don't worry. Just check the Vegetable Planting Calendar (use the downloadable one).
Maybe start that raised bed? Be sure to get a soil test done on it too. Here are two excellent extension information links for use when planning a raised bed garden Raised-Bed Gardening and toxicity concerns about raised-bed materials.
This is another excellent resource you might review. MU Extension and it's massive online electronic library here. Use the search box at the top, enter a topic like "Garden Planning." Plus look over 'From Seed to Harvest and Beyond: Garden Journal and Calendar' for Missouri gardeners. A how-to guide and info resource, review and purchase here.
Review 'Starting Plants Indoors From Seeds' here.
Grow Native! native plant education program of the Missouri Prairie Foundation... helps protect and restore biodiversity by increasing conservation awareness of native plants and their effective use in urban, suburban, and rural developed landscapes... When you get time explore the enhanced Grow Native! website here.
Thinking of planning a greenhouse? This is extensive extension information on hobby greenhouses you might review here.
Growing Home Garden Tomatoes - Tomatoes are a popular Missouri gardening topic and many of our readers may want to review this MU Extension guide, 'Growing Home Garden Tomatoes' Reviewed by David H. Trinklein, Division of Plant Sciences here.
And don't forget the ever popular Mountain variety tomatoes. There are over six varieties to choose from, both determinant and indeterminate; grape to very large and oblong. Very disease resistant.
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Get Your Soil Tested Soon
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Basic soil testing analysis is done by the MU Soil Lab in partnership with our Master Gardeners of Greene County. Results include fertilizer and lime recommendations. Additional tests are available for nutrient management plans, environmental issues, potting mixes, compost, manure and water usage. Each sample should contain a total of 2 cups of dry soil and from 6 to 7 inches deep and about 5 or 6 different areas. Results are typically provided within two weeks.
We recommend bringing the soil sample(s) to our office between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. on Thursdays. Master Gardeners can complete the paperwork and submit your test. One of our extension specialists will review your results. In most cases, gardens, lawns and fields should be tested every two years.
The cost is $30 per sample. Feel free to call if you have any questions.
417-874-2963
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Need a Speaker for a Meeting or Group?
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Master Gardeners of Greene County are unavailable at this time to speak to garden clubs, civic organizations, schools and other groups on a wide variety of topics within the world of gardening, horticulture, landscaping and the environment.
Please keep us in mind for a future date.
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Donating to MU Extension
Without MU Extension, there would be no Master Gardeners.
Gifts from individual donors support MU Extension's educational programs in Greene County. Primarily, we receive cash donations by check or online with a credit card and the non-cash donation of vehicles.
Tax deductible donation
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417-874-2963
The Hotline will be staffed onsite only on Thursdays
from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
primarily for soil testing.
These are two separate ways of contacting us.
Read our "Ask a Master Gardener" column in the Sunday Springfield News-Leader.
Be sure to LIKE us on Facebook!
Thank you!!
MGGC
Master Gardeners of Greene County, Missouri
417-874-2963
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