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Master Gardeners of Greene County
February 2022
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Table of Contents for February's Newsletter
Master Gardener Hotline
Food Preservation Online Classes
A Year in Archives for the Newsletter
Planning Your Garden Journal
MU Extension Horticultural Newsletter with Classes and Workshops
36 Free Recorded Agriculture Workshops
Heroes to Hives Opens Enrollment for 2022
Native Plant Academy
Internet Plant Sites
MDC: Annual Seedling Sale
Garden Links
Get Your Soil Tested Before Winter
Previous Newsletter Link
Need a Speaker for One of Your Meetings or Groups?
Gardening Questions Phone Number
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Master Gardener Greene County Hotline is open from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. THURSDAYS ONLY. This is to collect soil samples and to help with your gardening questions. We are in winter hours until the end of February.
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.
Questions answered state wide.
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.
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**EDITOR'S NOTE: If you are planning on doing a vegetable garden this year and have not had your soil tested in the last two years, these next two months are an excellent time to do so. You need to give the nutrients time to dissolve into the soil. | |
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Registration is $30.00
This self-paced course provides research based information needed to safely and successfully preserve food at home. Participants of all levels of food preservation experience are welcome, including individuals with little or no previous food preservation experience. This course covers pressure canning, boiling water bath canning, steam canning, dehydration, and freezing. Highlights include preserving salsas, pie fillings, pickling, sweet spreads, and harvesting and storage of produce.
Click here for more information and registration.
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A Year in Review of the Newsletter | |
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Planning Your 2022 Garden? The 2021 Year in Review, Master Gardener Newsletter Archives: During these cold winter days, plan to review the collection of 2021 newsletter gardening issues filled with educational information and gardening links. Please share this news with a friend. Plus, you can sign up to receive your own free issue of the 2022 monthly newsletter on any issue or send your contact information to: newsletter@mggreene.org
Newsletter Archives January - December 2021 links are below. Pick and choose or work your way through the year from top to bottom:
January 2021
February 2021
March 2021
April 2021
May 2021
June 2021
July 2021
August 2021
September 2021
October 2021
November 2021
December 2021
GARDENERS BONUS: January 2022
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Planning Your Garden Journal | |
The From Seed to Harvest and Beyond: Garden Journal and Calendar is a garden journal for all Missouri gardeners, as well as a how-to guide and information resource. It provides a place to keep all gardening information, plans and notes together.
Keeping a garden journal is a great way to organize and keep track of the how, when, where and what of the gardening season. Writing down your thoughts, successes, failures, needed improvements and new ideas as the gardening season progresses is easier than struggling to remember them several months after the season has ended. Many gardeners believe the keys to successful gardening are to get your plans on paper first and to keep records. This journal allows a gardener to do this. Find it here.
Cost is $20.00
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MU Extension Commercial Horticulture Newsletter | |
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Topics: Planning for Cut-Flower Production, Hydroponic Pros & Cons, Research on Specialty Melons, Tomatillos, & Ground Cherries, Missouri Tomato School Recordings, Check This List: 15 Upcoming Workshops/Class/Conference Offerings, Resources for Growers and Many More...
Click here for more information.
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36 Free Recorded Agriculture Workshops | |
Thanks in part to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Springfield Community Gardens (SCG) was able to offer a number of completely free educational workshops in 2021. Thank you to the MANY partners who helped make that happen. Together, we are helping our community develop a more resilient, local food system. Didn't make it to a previous Agriculture Workshop? 36 recorded workshops can currently be accessed using recordings of our Zoom workshops on our YouTube channel anytime. Click here. | |
Heroes to Hives Opens Enrollment for 2022 | |
Enrollment is open for Heroes to Hives, a free program that helps military veterans, active-duty personnel, reservists and their families learn the art of beekeeping. MU Extension agronomist Travis Harper leads the Missouri program, the first state chapter of the national Heroes to Hives program. The course includes nine prerecorded modules available through Michigan State University. There are also live Zoom classes on topics specific to Missouri beekeeping, Harper said. For more information and free registration link, click here.
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Tuesdays in February!!!
February 1, 8, 15. 22
6 PM – 7 PM
This is a series of 4 classes about native plants hosted by Lincoln University, MO Hives KC and other partners.
Topics included are: Native Plants for Native Pollinators, Nature dyes, native edibles and landscape design with native plants. Once registered, we'll send a zoom link to attend classes.
Native Plants and More offers information about native plants and their many uses. It is the Facebook Page for the Specialty Crops Program at Lincoln University.
We offer guidance to landowners and small farmers in urban and rural areas to adopt native plants for conservation to improve biodiversity and to grow native edible plants as specialty crops for consumption and for income.
If you don't find the link to register in this post, please send me a message: nativeplantsandmore@gmail.com
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Editor's Note: This comprehensive list has been compiled and updated by longtime volunteer Barbara Clark. This is an online list of websites dedicated to plant identification and information including: resources; native flowers and gardening; wildflowers; daylily; grass and sedge; ornamental grass; hosta; iris; lily; peony; rose; seed and nursery; succulent; tree; viburnum; weeds and invasive pests. After review, you are welcome to share this list with your friends! Suggestions welcome for review. Link to Facebook list. | |
MDC: Seedling Order Form 2021–2022 | |
By Missouri Department of Conservation:
Plan Ahead and Order Early! Although we accept orders from Sept. 1, 2021, through April 15, 2022, we always sell out of some species quickly. To get the plants you want, please send your order as soon as possible. Otherwise, you can select the option to have us substitute suitable species for you. Some species are in short supply and will only be available online.
Check out our online catalog for all available seedlings. You can place your order online starting Sept. 1, 2021 or download the Seedling Catalog order form, and send it by regular mail or fax here.
Click here for current details.
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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? |
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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