Monday, January 17, 6:30p. The year’s first meeting was well attended and received. Seventy-five members, friends and guests attended Gwinnett Master Gardeners’ (GMG) kickoff meeting for 2011. Newly installed officers Anne Heath (president) and Hilary Wilson (VP) were smooth and seamless in handling the business of GMG. Alice Verner and her new hospitality committee handled the “soup and sandwiches” theme with aplomb. Programming. There was a special recognition at the front end of the program. This was an award for work on the outdoor classroom at the Monarch School on Main Street in Duluth. Dr.Barbara Martin, Monarch principal, attended the meeting long enough to present the GMGs a plaque. Shannon Pable has designed and organized the garden area at Monarch, and supervises its ongoing maintenance. She accepted the award on behalf of “Gwinnett Master Gardeners” involved in this labor of love over the past several years. Aaron Tulin, GMG’s new webmaster, introduced the newly redesigned GMG website. He…
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Fall Vegetables
Being as hot as it is in July you might not think of fall vegetables while feeling like you are under a broiler every time you step outside. However, fall vegetables need time to grow to be able to set fruit which can be harvested in the fall and winter. Get out your gardening calendar and start writing down planting dates so that you have a bounty of vegetables to harvest once the weather does start cooling off. If you plan on having your own pumpkins for Halloween plant them in early July. Most varieties need 100 days of growth for a good sized pumpkin. If you do not have much space choose a variety that is labeled “short vine” or you can train the vine up on a sturdy trellis or deck. When your tomato plants start looking sad from disease or if you have determinate varieties which have…
Perennials For Beginning Gardeners In Georgia
Perennials are nature’s miracles. Look at a perennial garden in the dead of winter and what do you see? Nothing, most likely! Then, as the days get longer and the sun begins to warm the earth, little green things begin to emerge from the soil and soon there are bursts of foliage everywhere not long after complemented by blooms in all sorts of colors. My favorite flowering perennials, in a still young garden, are Sedum “Autumn Joy”, Shasta Daisy “Crazy Daisy”, Daylilies, Gaura “Siskiyou Pink” and Joe-Pye Weed. Let me add to that Baptisia, Asters, Phlox, Bearded Irises, and well enough. In my garden, plants have to love sun. For that reason I have only a few Hostas and Lenten Roses and other perennials that are not so thrilled about growing in full sun. Thus, my experiences and advice will benefit you if you have a sunny garden: by picking…