My county's MGs not helpful, how about yours?
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Comments (6)Hi, is there anyway you can post a picture or a link to it? If it isn't the one Jaynine posted it's almost impossible to try and just guess. There are so many......See MoreMG county fair booths
Comments (3)We have participated for several years in our county fair. We have used a theme of 'garden junk' very successfully for two of those years. We've had planted lunch boxes, a pond made in a set of washtubs, wind chimes made from kitchen items and on and on. We have a binder of pictures from the web so people can get even more ideas. Along with this, we have done "Ask the Master Gardener". Folks are encouraged to ask questions of the MGs who are present and forms are left at the display when the booth isn't manned. We had one contest called 'name the weed' and another called 'name the plant'. Participants placed their answers on a form and dropped them into a box after they had studied the live plants that we supplied. Winners were awarded a collection of perennials from MG gardens. We also made a display in an old aquarium. It was the items needed to make compost stacked so that they could be seen through the glass. Little boys seemed to like this one. We considered adding a rubber snake or something to make their studying enjoyable for them. We have posters with pictures of local gardens that we use as a backdrop to whatever we are doing. The pictures are identified as to what kind of garden it is and who did the gardening. We also order seeds in bulk to give away. I'm sure there are some things I'm forgetting. Our group enjoys putting together a display and manning it in the evenings so we can promote our program and answer gardening questions....See MoreWhat have you learned from your MG course that really helped?
Comments (4)I've learned how to identify plant families, how to propagate plants that I want and how to identify plant problems especially Oak Wilt which is really bad in Texas. Also identifying good bugs from bad bugs which we have alot of here. The soil is extremely important, bad soil, bad garden! Good soil, GREAT GARDEN. Landscape design is something else I learned which I really enjoy and now do for a living. Happy Gardening Yall!...See MoreWhat's the best thing about your MG program?
Comments (11)eddie ,you hit the nail on the head. We can all be great garden gurus but with Master Gardener Volunteers it is more about the people we help. You must possess or LEARN people skills and be willing to concentrate how to help others . Many times people are grieving for a diseased plant,it could have had sentimental value.Sometimes they are feeling depressed because a plant dying makes them feel like a failure.Being in Florida we get many Top Gardeners from the north who come here thinking they can grow 12 months a year and want the same monster tomatoes and killer zuchinis only to discover they must cope with 12 months of bugs, lifeless sand,scorching heat ,and fungus from humidity. These once confident gardeners given the right tools and materials to educate them will soon be back to picking tomatoes but will have learned to do it in a different way. One new to the area gal wanted to cut down her 3 dead pine trees. I lived nearby and decided to take a look as pine borers have been killing many trees. It was winter and they were not pines but 2 bald cypress and a jacaranda tree! Thankfully she asked for help before cutting them down! An elderly woman was concerned about her gardening efforts at her age and how she could still amend her soil when she cannot lug 40 lb bags around any more. Mentioning how helpful red wagons are in my garden her voice lit up with excitement .Seems she had one in her garage and loved the idea of putting it to use. These people become our friends and friends are better to collect then gardening awards. That's what makes Master Gardening worthwhile....See Morecalistoga_al ca 15 usda 9
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