Posted in Master Gardener on Friday, August 25, 2006 | 3 Comments »
I had a letter in the mail a couple of days ago letting me know that I had earned the 50 volunteer hours required to become an “official” URI Master Gardener. They sent my “blue pin” as well. Now I don’t have to wear the paper “intern ” badge any more. Guess I [...]
Posted in Master Gardener on Sunday, June 11, 2006 | No Comments »
I attended the Northeast Regional Master Gardeners Conference last week in Newport, RI. This is a picture of the conference, the Hyatt on Goat Island. It's a beautiful location–right on the harbor. Unfortunately the weather was horrible–rainy, gray, chilly, & windy–so I didn't spend much time outside.
Posted in Master Gardener on Monday, June 5, 2006 | 3 Comments »
On Tuesday & Wednesday, posts will be light. I'm volunteering both days at the Northeast Regional Master Gardener Conference, which is being held in Newport, RI and hosted by the URI master gardeners. The theme of the conference is Passion for Gardening.
Posted in Master Gardener on Sunday, May 14, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Last week I finished up the master gardener training class at URI–here’s my completion certificate. It’s good to be finished with class although I’ll miss a few buddies that I made. Hopefully I’ll see them around in different volunteer events.
Finishing the class doesn’t make me an “official” MG yet, though. I still have to complete [...]
Posted in Master Gardener on Friday, May 5, 2006 | 8 Comments »
Mark your calendars for an online chat at May 9 at 1 pm, when you can ask a URI master gardener a burning gardening question that's been stumping you. (Of course you can always ask me on this blog, but hey, online chats are more fun.)
Posted in Master Gardener, Plants & Flowers on Saturday, March 4, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Yesterday I put in my first volunteer hours for the URI Master Gardener program. Until I actually complete the class and get a lot more hands-on experience, I'm trying to limit myself to "actual gardening," versus for example, fund-raising, event coordination, or working on the gardening hotline. But because there's not that many projects in [...]
Posted in Master Gardener on Thursday, February 16, 2006 | 15 Comments »
Birch leafminer, black turpentine beetle, Colorado potato beetle, gypsy moths, fall webworm, eastern tent caterpillar……..for the last two weeks we’ve been studying bugs in my master gardener class. I’m getting a little tired of them, but since there are at least 10 million species of bugs in the world and only a small number of [...]
Posted in Master Gardener on Sunday, February 12, 2006 | No Comments »
In a previous post I wrote that the leaves of rhododendrons curl up when it gets really cold because they are closing up around their stoma to conserve water. I included a lame pic I grabbed off the Internet but here’s a picture of the real rhody in my backyard, suffering in the Nor’easter that [...]
Posted in Master Gardener on Thursday, January 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Last night I went to the first official master gardener class–last week was just the orientation. I spent at least 4 hours trying to get through the first chapter of the RI Sustainable Gardening Manual–”Basic Botany.” Yikes. Words that I hadn’t seen since I was in college–gymnosperm, xylem, and phloem for example–initially brought me frightening [...]
Posted in Master Gardener on Saturday, January 21, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I started the University of Rhode Island’s Master Gardener Program this past Wednesday. You’ll be hearing a lot about that on this blog. You can surf their site to find out all kinds of details about them, but I’ll summarize here by saying that Master Gardener programs are offered in most, if not all states. [...]
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